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My 18 year old nephew was involved in a wreck and was hospitalized with a severely broken leg. He will be okay, but his parents are very upset that he was loaded! He was drinking and had drugs in his system. He will have charges for property damage to a business also.
They searched his room, found bottles of xanax, hydrocodone, vicodin, valium and such. His dad checked the computer and found an account with one of those Canadian and Mexican "pharmacies". He is in the process of contacting them to question their practice.
Is it really that easy and legal to purchase controlled substances without a U.S. prescription? I always thought that these were bogus businesses that would sell capsules of Comet or Ajax, not real medications, like narcotics! My doctor will NOT even give me a prescription for more than 30 Xanax over a 3 month span, because it is addictive and he says that if I really have anxiety to the degree that I need a Xanax a few times a day, then I need psychological help, but he would feel "irresponsible" if he did prescribe a big dose on a daily basis. (I appreciate his candor and even agree that you have to really watch your meds)
My nephew will be okay, but he's said he thinks he has a big problem with abuse. I just think it's horrible that controlled substances are so easily available to obviously anyone.
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