Oxycodone

And you're like, "It hurts, but if I push it'll hurt harder." And you're like, "I think I'm just living on this toilet now."

The only reason why I didn't get completely addicted to OxyContin was because of the constipation.

Yeah.

'Cause I would buy it.

There was a, there was a comic who would sell us OxyContin, and they were, uh...

You remember those?

Mm-hmm.

And doing something about it.

Going after Big Pharma and OxyContin for the damage they've done.

If you've never seen what OxyContin did to a friend, a family, a favorite entertainer, if you've never heard the stories about lives destroyed, and they knew what they were doing.

If I can recommend one thing that you go off and listen to, I'll give you the name of it when we go to break.

There's a podcast about OxyContin.

It's about a 10-part podcast.

And, and real- look, I realize everybody wants to make the addict into a victim or the criminal into a victim or the murderer into a victim or the pedophile.

Oxycodone was good.

Motherfucking cocaine-

Percocets

... and a blunt with weed.

Have you tried Percs?

Yeah

... from the recovery and addiction that fentanyl served a purpose, that pharmaceutical companies created fentanyl or, um, oxycodone for that matter, OxyContin.

You know what? It was a new incredibly powerful pain drug for people with intractable pain that had no other option and other than to seek relief.

You know? And, and it was like a g- And then what the, what did the Purdue family do with OxyContin? Well, they figured out that it was incredibly, incredibly addictive.

And so instead of restricting the distribution of it and giving warnings to doctors that this is incredibly addictive and only give it to patients that are literally on their deathbed or that have no hope of any r- uh, uh, of any recovery from their pain, instead what they did is they went to doctors and they created a marketing plan that told them that this is unlike any other, uh, uh, pain medication.

It's not addictive.

The 12-hour release, um, uh, uh, pill makes certain that the recurring physiological effect of addiction will not take place, and it's...

A- and you can prescribe it for simple back pain.

Because basically the entire...

Everything west of Jersey City is Oxycontin and fucking Roops, right? Megachurks and Oxycontin.

Yeah, like, did

you ever read Dreamland? That's the country.

Dude,

exactly.

And you start with this concept that everybody in fucking Ohio is either dying from an Oxycontin overdose or in a megachurch.

Like, there are plenty of other people in Ohio.

There's no such thing.

Percocet comes in 5, 10, and maybe a 20 milligram at one time.

They have Tylenol in them.

There's a Roxy 30, and then there's Oxycontin, but they're all just Oxycodone.

Another comment on the episode is people getting high on bupe.

For me and me alone, bupe has zero recreational appeal, none.

Percocet is a brand name, people.

It is oxycodone and acetaminophen.

Okay.

Alpha-lipoic acid, and, as you know, silymarin, alpha-lipoic acid, NAC, thiamine, and, uh, get, go to a doctor where you can get this IV sometimes, but you can also take it orally, and, uh, and even try, and e- and even if you have CFCs also, just take, as long as you're not on an opiate drug like a, you know, you know, a, you know, Oxycontin or, or you know, any, any of the drugs.

I don't, you know, I've been away from that so long, I can't even remember the names of the opiates, but what were they? Anyway, you know if you're on a, on a narcotic.

It's the only time you wouldn't take Narcan.

I know.

Because the first time I tried Percocet, I was like, yes, this is awesome.

That's how I felt.

And it was like almost overnight.

I always tell people I was the most resourceful drug addict.

I could find drugs anywhere.

Like buying the fucking prescription bottle of Percocet.

You know what I mean? I was always scheming as a junkie.

And maybe like in order to see something as not fragile, you have to see it as part of a bigger picture, right? Because like each individual piece is fragile, right? If you have a pain in your ankle and you're like, all I can think about is not having this pain, then of course you're going to rush to...

You know, at best the Motrin and at worst the Oxycontin, right? But if you're like, you know, a certain amount of pain is actually important.

Florida 1999, you'll get both.

You'll get

That you were, uh, being rated on whether you alleviated patients pain.

So if Medicare didn't like your your patient assessment score, you weren't reimbursed properly.

So what was the easiest way to to address that? Well, it's, you know, send some people home with Oxycontin goodie bag.

you know, I'm gonna get a 10 out of 10.