According to Boyle

From the state known across the nation for L.L. Bean, lobsters and people who say "ayuh" comes yet another claim to fame: the Oxy baby.

An Oxy baby is a child born to a mother hooked on OxyContin, the highly addictive painkiller that passes for a good time in rural Maine.

You probably know that our state, with Yankee ingenuity, was the innovator in this area. While people in other parts of the country were scrounging around for heroin, rural Mainers figured out that a $3 Medicaid prescription can lead to just as much fun.

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