Oxycodone shortage + Price gouging

[Feelings 0f U4ia is Back!]

So I am sure any CP patient here (and maybe even buyers) have heard about the shortage of Oxycodone. It seems to have hit FL the hardest. I used to pay around $1 per Roxicodone 30mg without insurance before all this. Last month I had to pay $5 per fucking pill.

Not only that, but the street price has almost doubled. Used to be $10 - $15 TOPS, now I am hearing up to $30.

Just wondering if the shortage and price gouging is going on anywhere else still? If so, has it been showing any signs of getting better?

FDA website says that things should be getting back to normal in the next 2 months, the last time I checked...

I really hope so.

Ha, as I was typing this...I was calling a pharmacy to see if they had them in stock since my appointment is soon. $10 per pill. Fucking street prices.

Oh, and another thing these places are doing, is NOT taking insurance for Oxycodone only right now. I don't have insurance either way, but that seems really fucked up.

[Dillygirl]

I read a letter from the FDA about this somewhere, lemme see if I can find it. But yeah, couple weeks ago I got 10 10-mg oxy's from the ER and I went through fuckin' hoops to get em - they had to call the ER doc, get prior authorization and bla bla ray ray for ten stinking pills.

[Oxyrisin2]

I'VE brought it up here a few times and everyone just blew it off to be in my area. I tried to tell everyone here.(feelings you weren't here)
Up here in Washington we have been out state wide sinse Jan..
Yep the whole state. The prices aren't going up here though. well probably cause there aren't any here..

[Feelings 0f U4ia is Back!]

We are getting some. The big chains that aren't price gouging are getting them in slowly, like 1-2 bottles a week...only enough to fill one or two scripts. It's really hard to catch them right as they get them in. I've gone as far as to call every Walgreens, CVS, etc...and ask them when they get their shipments in so I can call on that day to see if they got any in.

One problem is that a lot of pharmacies are lying and telling people they don't have them even if they do, in fear of being robbed. So you have to just drive to pharmacy to pharmacy...and I hate doing that because they look at a 24 year old kid getting scripts like a complete junkie and I get treated like shit.

There is a Sam's Club here that has a pharmacy, and the pharmacist is piece of shit. I called the other week, and he basically told me over the phone "You can come bring your script in, but if I don't like the way you look or if I think you don't need them or I think you abuse them, I will tell you to leave my pharmacy."

Fucking bullshit. Isn't discrimination illegal? I am going to start bringing my MRI films, my MRI report, and all of my doctor's notes with me to every pharmacy and forcing the pharmacist to read them if he tries to turn me away.

I did find out that there are compounding pharmacies that are compounding 30mg of Oxycodone with either 80mg of Ginger, or Lactose (I think it was Lactose) and charging $3 per pill. I guess it burns if you try to snort it, and it's really horrible for veins if you try to inject it.

Another thing I have ran across is pharmacies turning me away because the doctor that wrote the perscription was from out-of-town...like as in not in the city the pharmacy is located. What the fuck is that about? How can they turn you away just because you go to a doctor that isn't in the area? What if you are on vacation and you need to get a script filled in a different state?

It's absolute bullshit. Last month it cost me more for my script of Roxi's then it did for my script of Oxycontin.

[Dillygirl]

You know what? This is what I was talking about with that douchenozzle pharmacist who wrote that blog. You are a PHARMACIST - you fucking FILL PRESCRIPTIONS. You DO NOT know better than my doctor and you DO NOT have the right to tell me to go away because you don't like my nipple rings or my shirt or whatever.

[Feelings 0f U4ia is Back!]

Problem is...pharmacist are being sued in overdose cases now.

Parents of overdose victims are suing the doctors, AND the pharmacist. The doctor for writing the script, and the pharmacist for filling it.

Nobody should be sued in a overdose case. It's not the doctor's fault that the person decided to abuse their medication. Every time I see one of these cases where a doctor is being sued, it just pisses me off. I immediately think "oh great, just another reason for doctor's to be scared to actually prescribe medications that help..."

[Dillygirl]

I can't imagine my parents blaming anyone but my own stupid ass for my od'ing on meds, especially if the directions are clear on the label. It is a problem though, because even though the docs and pharmacists aren't really liable for someone being an asshole, their insurance premiums go up with every lawsuit even if they win.

People suck, I swear.

[Bluez_Snooze]

here in canada, im not aware of any shortage.
and i really hope theres not.
the pills are fucking expensive regardless of a shortage or not though.
starting next month, im not gonna be covered under any insurance anymore.
so im going from paying 2$ a bottle to about 200$ a bottle.
obviously the price will vary depending on the dose and how much im getting.
but for a bottle of 120 oxy 20s, it was 188$
this is gonna suck..

[Feelings 0f U4ia is Back!]

here in canada, im not aware of any shortage.
and i really hope theres not.
the pills are fucking expensive regardless of a shortage or not though.
starting next month, im not gonna be covered under any insurance anymore.
so im going from paying 2$ a bottle to about 200$ a bottle.
obviously the price will vary depending on the dose and how much im getting.
but for a bottle of 120 oxy 20s, it was 188$
this is gonna suck..

There is not a shortage on Oxycontin. It's Oxycodone Immediate Release tablets...in all strengths, aka Roxis.

There used to be 5 manufacturers, and now there are only 3 left, and from what I've gathered...the DEA wasn't letting the last 3 to increase production to meet the demand since they have a quota of medication they can produce.

[Bluez_Snooze]

There is not a shortage on Oxycontin. It's Oxycodone Immediate Release tablets...in all strengths, aka Roxis.

There used to be 5 manufacturers, and now there are only 3 left, and from what I've gathered...the DEA wasn't letting the last 3 to increase production to meet the demand since they have a quota of medication they can produce.

ohhh ok, sorry. i mis-understood

[patHAOomg]

This is what I was talking about with that douchenozzle pharmacist who wrote that blog.


hahahahaha..... douchenozzle.... :smilielol5:

good one, dilly :)


So I am sure any CP patient here (and maybe even buyers) have heard about the shortage of Oxycodone. It seems to have hit FL the hardest. I used to pay around $1 per Roxicodone 30mg without insurance before all this. Last month I had to pay $5 per fucking pill.

Not only that, but the street price has almost doubled. Used to be $10 - $15 TOPS, now I am hearing up to $30.

Just wondering if the shortage and price gouging is going on anywhere else still? If so, has it been showing any signs of getting better?

man, i used to pay between $5 - $12 for 30mg roxis. I MISS THE FUCK OUT OF THOSE DAYS, MAN! Now, people around my area (middle GA) are charging $20 - $30 per fucking pill!!!! that is fucking ridiculous.... and what's even worse is that they are raising the prices like that because people actually pay that much for them.

Well, not me..... I FUCKING REFUSE!!! I will go straight thru withdrawals before i pay that much for these things....

It is getting better in my area, tho. that is, if you find the right people. there are still those goddamned fag-o-tron bastards that still try to make $25 profit off of every pill, just because they can...

this i all street price, tho. i don't have a script, so i don't know much about the prices being raised in the actual pharmacy. the people i know aren't being gouged from my knowledge. people here are still paying the usual prices for roxi's, but they are just trying to rip people off because they know some people will pay out the ass for them...

shit fucking kills me, man.

i've been sticking to the yellow percocet 10's and oc 20's, because they are at good prices from where i get them. $3 a pop for the percs and $5-$7 for the 20's.

[Feelings 0f U4ia is Back!]

Sounds like it could have gotten to your area. Most of the United States is short on Oxycodone.

Let me ask you this. Have you noticed a decrease in the availability of pills around there? Like are people running out sooner, or...normal guys aren't having them like they used to?

[Oxyrisin2]

^^I can't answer that bud, cause I haven't bought any pills for myself in 3 months now.

[Feelings 0f U4ia is Back!]

I know, I was talking to pat, I know you are a PM patient :P

[patHAOomg]

yeah, it's kind of weird. well, it WAS, anyway. It seems pretty much back to normal now. But for a while, the roxi's were totally gone. I mean, the motherfuckers disappeared. Then one person that I know got some roxi 15mg's, ya know, the green mallinckrodt ones.... and the shithead wanted $15 a piece for them!!! So, that's when I started looking for other things. I started getting a bunch of lortab 10's and then just doing a CWE on em. But that got old FAST. Then some OC 20's came around for a lil while and they were a good price ($7 a piece, $5 if you buy in bulk), so I stocked up on those until I ran out. And also, percocet 10's and 5's have magically reappeared after like a 2 year absence!

IDK....

It seems like there was a quick shortage on roxi's here for a lil while, but I wouldn't say on oxycodone in general. And I think most of it was people noticed how scarce the roxi's were, so they just started gouging them just because they could, which is really flippin' gay.

But like I said, everything seems to be back to normal now, except for the roxi issue. people still want double for the things. And everyone has them!

[Bluez_Snooze]

yeah, it's kind of weird. well, it WAS, anyway. It seems pretty much back to normal now. But for a while, the roxi's were totally gone. I mean, the motherfuckers disappeared. Then one person that I know got some roxi 15mg's, ya know, the green mallinckrodt ones.... and the shithead wanted $15 a piece for them!!! So, that's when I started looking for other things. I started getting a bunch of lortab 10's and then just doing a CWE on em. But that got old FAST. Then some OC 20's came around for a lil while and they were a good price ($7 a piece, $5 if you buy in bulk), so I stocked up on those until I ran out. And also, percocet 10's and 5's have magically reappeared after like a 2 year absence!

IDK....

It seems like there was a quick shortage on roxi's here for a lil while, but I wouldn't say on oxycodone in general. And I think most of it was people noticed how scarce the roxi's were, so they just started gouging them just because they could, which is really flippin' gay.

But like I said, everything seems to be back to normal now, except for the roxi issue. people still want double for the things. And everyone has them!

everyone has roxi's now because nobody will fuckin buy them for that rediculous price haha

[Oxyrisin2]

I know, I was talking to pat, I know you are a PM patient :P

COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

[patHAOomg]

everyone has roxi's now because nobody will fuckin buy them for that rediculous price haha

hahaha, that is a dead-on observation, my friend :D

I'll be goddamned if I pay that much for those fucking things!

[SpENS93]

Sounds like it could have gotten to your area. Most of the United States is short on Oxycodone.

Let me ask you this. Have you noticed a decrease in the availability of pills around there? Like are people running out sooner, or...normal guys aren't having them like they used to?
yup in the hood they ran out and only had 20s

[Oxyrisin2]

yup in the hood they ran out and only had 20s

And how much they want for those..

[SpENS93]

And how much they want for those..
9

[Dillygirl]

Holy shit, I can't believe those prices. I never bought pills on the street so I have no idea, I would so get ripped off if I even tried.

[SpENS93]

i get 80s for 25 now

[TokeTrip]

Oxy's are rougly $.60 (if lucky) to $.80 per mg of oxy (avg) in the midwest at retail. No point when can get g of t that .1 is the equivalent of 100mgoc for 75.

[patHAOomg]

Oxy's are rougly $.60 (if lucky) to $.80 per mg of oxy (avg) in the midwest at retail. No point when can get g of t that .1 is the equivalent of 100mgoc for 75.

I have no fucking clue what you just said, man.

:confused:

:leaving:

[SpENS93]

I have no fucking clue what you just said, man.

:confused:

:leaving:
he said get heroin its cheaper

[Oxyrisin2]

I have no fucking clue what you just said, man.

:confused:

:leaving:

HAHA I was like huh,LOL

[-beatnick]

yup, $5 worth of dope can fuck your shit up.

[xLeFinx]

Hey, FeelingsOfU..
that is fucking retarded that he is all, for lack of a better term, up in your kool-aid. Tell him to back the fuck off. I would just bring your films in and stuff. But that almost seems like a hassle, you know?
Are all of the pharmacies you go to like that? I encounter the same problem. Pharmacists give me this "You need them... suuuuuure uh-huh." I just want to punch them in the face.

[Dillygirl]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: it is NOT THE PHARMACIST'S JOB TO TELL ME I DO NOT NEED MY MEDICATION. I have enough problems with my pain management dude wanting to jack my insurance company with useless trigger point injections and sending me home with tramadol and the occasional 5/325 percs; I do NOT need the douchenozzle pill dispenser telling me I don't need them. I realize that pharmacists know more about drug interactions than most docs - that's true. And I'm quite sure they deal with a lot of assheads who come in for opies with stupid ass excuses like "I lost my Rx on vacation" or "I flushed them on accident." But that doesn't mean that someone with a legit script from a legit doc needs to be made to feel like a piece of shit because they want their medication.

And if you can't handle treating people with respect? If you're burnt out from all the junkies and liars trying to scam you? Get another job. Go work in a hospital pharmacy. (Although a lot of retail RPh's couldn't GET a job in a hospital pharmacy because they ain't fuckin' qualified).

[Oxyrisin2]

HUH, I've never had a pharmacy tell what I shoud and shouldn't take.
The only problem I ever had was bartells calling my doc everytime I brought in a script.
Changed paharmacys and cured problem..

[Dillygirl]

I actually only have a prob with Walgreen's. My pain doctor is fully aware (because I fucking call him and tell him) that I sometimes have to resort to the ER. I had a workers' comp case a couple of years ago and I used Walgreen's for my meds then; they still have that info in their system and I forgot about it, so when I had this accident in January and had to go on pain meds, I took the Rx to Walgreen's and they filled it - with no copay. I was like, "Huh, that's odd" then I remembered about the comp case. So I gave them my health insurance info next time I came in.

Meanwhile, the pharmacist that's ALWAYS on when I go there gives me shit every time - telling me that I need to stop getting scripts from more than one doc, that I don't need dilaudid, that I didn't need oxys, blah blah ray ray. I finally got annoyed the last time I went there and told him, "You know what? If I were trying to pull something illegal I probably wouldn't bring all my scripts to the same place now would I? So how about I just take my business elsewhere?" Now I go to CVS. No problem.

[Oxyrisin2]

What is your sig suppose to be, SORRY but its very ugly..:eek:

[Slingblade]

Looks like a manatee with explosive diarrhea to me.

[Oxyrisin2]

Ya your right. she needs to put something pretty up there, Like a, a a,
the pic of her a** its so sweet..
Hope she can't read that..LOL

[Dillygirl]

It's a manatee. Did you never hear the guy reporting about the Hindenberg, "Oh, the humanity?" Well - OH THE HUGE MANATEE.

That pic has been deleted but I'll change my sig later if the manatee is making you think of explosive diarrhea.

[Slingblade]

Lol it just looks like its shitting out a fireball. I think its great.

[Dillygirl]

It made me laugh when I saw it.

[Oxyrisin2]

It's a manatee. Did you never hear the guy reporting about the Hindenberg, "Oh, the humanity?" Well - OH THE HUGE MANATEE.

That pic has been deleted but I'll change my sig later if the manatee is making you think of explosive diarrhea.

I'm Polish and just don't get it I guess. Oh well
And sorry about the deletion but we will lhave to live with Memories...:cool:

[Micha]

fucking bullshit, today the 'price' from the most reliable guy on the skreet finally went up to over a dollar a mg for ocs.

absolutely ridiculous!
but then again theres really no h in baton rouge.. NOla's got it but thats a 45 minute drive and i'm on papers and color code :eek: :D

[Dillygirl]

WTH does "papers and colors" mean?

[Slingblade]

probie maybe? never heard that before. must be that cajun.

[LoriBaby]

im currently not using and been clean except for a few days there for almost 4 months. I have been getting more calls this month from old friends begging me to go score them shit than when i was getting high. they say they cant find any pills and are so desperate theyre looking towards heroin. I normally tell em to call me when theyre sober but i do understand the desperation. oh and roxi's are 25 to 35 here

[Slingblade]

i hate that you guys are havin roxi price gouges. there still only 10 here.

[stonerman420]

i get roxi 30s for $15. i heard on cnbc today that they just started raiding pain clinics in florida...so that may have something to do with alot of the shortage/inflation. they said that alot of illicit pills come from florida. but what do they know.

[Feelings 0f U4ia is Back!]

Florida won't ever be shut down. The economy is thriving because of this shit, lol.

[InstantGratification]

Florida won't ever be shut down. The economy is thriving because of this shit, lol.

At least the economy I operate in is.

BTW, what up, man? Long time no see.