Thread: I think the Oxycontin OP tablets are making me sick and not working for pain
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Old 10-16-2012, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Saffy View Post
Would much rather have sent them out to someone.
Good intentions aside,
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Dealing [distribution] of the drug illegally is punishable by up to life imprisonment, an unlimited fine, or both.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone#United_Kingdom_2
We all have compassion for, and wish to help, our fellow painees, but that, IMO, is not a way to do it. One would also be responsible (legally, ethically, morally) for any adverse results of that well-meant act of compassion -- diversion, accidental overdose, abuse, suicide...

You did the right thing by turning them in.

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