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I read an article today about a woman who started drinking and experimenting with drugs when she was thirteen years old. She took drugs for years – marijuana, cocaine, crystal meth and a variety of pills – until she got married and had children. After the birth of her third child, she started again. She went to one drug detox after another, but she did them to keep social services from taking her kids away, not because she really wanted to get off drugs.

Then she was introduced to OxyContin and even her efforts to keep her kids came to a dead stop. She spent six years on OxyContin – nothing was more important to her than getting that drug. After all she’d been through all those years, nothing compared to the addictive powers of OxyContin. She eventually was sentenced to five years in prison.

Fortunately, within a few months she was given the opportunity, through drug court, to do another drug detox and drug rehab. This time, she was serious. She knew she’d hit rock bottom and really wanted to change. And she did. Today she’s been clean for over 1 ½ years.

OxyContin is not a drug you should mess around with. Purdue Pharma was fined $634.5 million for lying to the public about the addictive potential of OxyContin. This woman’s story is just one of many and, frankly, as bad as her story is, she’s one of the lucky ones. Thanks to her hard work and her determination to get off the drug, she finally made it. For others, their journey ended in the morgue.

If someone you know is taking OxyContin, get them into a good drug detox program fast. Don’t let them risk ruining their lives – they may not be so lucky.

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