Oxycontin abuse is a crippling disease. I say disease because that is exactly what any type of drug addiction/alcoholism is, and all too many times we hear and see about the problem, but we never hear what can be done about it.

The majority say lock them up or put them away, but we all know that does not solve the problem. Incarceration, nine out of 10 times, only worsens the problem, because the person is so hell-bent on getting over the stresses of jail, they immediately turn back to drugs or as the norm is today, Oxycontin.

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