Who else has family members who rips off relatives' Valium, Vicodin or xanax?

Who the hell is prescribing thousand-pill supplies of diazepam?

Also, don’t forget oxycodone. That’s the hillbilly heroin of choice these days.

@Aster – I am guilty of stealing pain-killers from my dad, many many years ago. I’ve also gotten multiple prescriptions from doctors that just don’t care. (Adderall, Xanax.) However, when I had my wisdom-teeth pulled, I developed that dreaded dry-socket. That’s when I realized those pills are actually medicine, and they’re fun to party with – usually alone – but are essential to people’s well-being.

Those painkillers, namely Oxycodone, are worth a phenomenal amount of money on the drug-market, and as you said – they are worth their weight in gold, either to deal or to abuse.
I live near here and I feel like every week I read about doctors being imprisoned for writing out bogus prescriptions. Very sad.

Hey, my old stomping grounds!

@Seek_Kolinahr when her much older husband contracted Alzheimer’s Disease she took him to the doctor and he was wandering, talking to strangers and otherwise disruptive so she said she thinks they prescribed the Valium to keep him from coming back. It could have been five hundred pills but, of course, he got much worse regardless.

It’s rampant here in Missouri. You can get one Norco for $8, xanax are around $3 a pop, patches can go from $10–20 each. I know a lot of addicts, most were hurt badly, were put on prescription narcotics and now can’t get off them.

ok but what I was asking was who knows family members who steal them from their family who got them by prescription and need them?

It is impossible to have controlled substances around one of my wife’s sisters. During the time we lived with her, we were very careful to not leave her (my wife’s) norco or my clonopin (for insomnia) anywhere alone with the sister.

When the sister is confronted on stealing, she then denies it and often accuses someone else of having done it instead. When she (the sister) has used up her month’s supply 2 weeks early she chooses someone to accuse of stealing her meds. Once she accused my wife of stealing someone’s meds when she (the sister) was accused. By that time nobody believed the sister.

@Aster Yes, I do. Someone also made a dupe of a family members house key and went in and stole her meds.

Yes, but he took it for his own use, never enough to make selling worthwhile. It had to be hidden from him and re-hidden over and over as he kept searching for and finding it.

It would have been good if we could have found a placebo to fill the pill bottle with and hide in an obvious place.

@rojo Addicts can find anything, trust me. I’ve wondered about placebo’s, too, I wouldn’t mind swapping out a few bottles for a few people on the medically unnecessary ones to see what happens.

This happens all of the time and it’s also happened to me more times than I can count. I’ve seen it in my own family, my ex-boyfriend’s family (which was severe), I have had friends ask me for meds after I’ve had surgery, and I’ve had mine go missing after guests have visited.

People who want them can sniff them out like crazy. Because of their recreational and street value, it’s become another form of currency.