In 1999, the painkillers ranked seventh among agents detected in toxic or lethal doses by the coroner s office. In 2000, oxycodone drugs were found to be in toxic doses in 12 cases in Franklin County. Of the Franklin County cases, four were deemed accidental drug overdoses. One was suspected a suicide. National emergency room data shows the number of visits involving oxycodone medications rising from about 3,750 to 6,430 from 1992 to 1999.
Drug culture is a creature of many heads.
You ve got your potheads usually not a problem. Baseheads not very attractive to occasional or social users. Somewhere in between, you ve got your pill-heads. They got there either because their legal use of prescription drugs got the best of them or they ve found the more legitimate narcotics to be the feel-good drug du jour. They cross socio-economic lines and aren t a rarity among club or music scenesters or even country clubbers.