The common trend of stealing Oxycontin at the gunpoint

Oxycontin, which is also commonly known as “Hillbilly Heroin” because of it’s rampant use by heroin addicts is a good substitute of heroine and is the most common over the counter painkiller. Apart from Adderall and Vicodin that are being used by people to get a high, oxycontin when taken in large dosages in order to reduce pain can become very addictive. You can easily crush the pills and sniff or get yourself injected to get the high. Oxycontin addiction is increasing because of its cheap price and easy avaiability compared to heroin. It is an over the counter drug and can be bought easily without a prescription.

The consequences of Oxycontin addiction lead to various issues. It ranges from physical dependency, death due to continuous use, social unacceptability, problems at workplace, resorting to violence and unfair means which can lead to fatal results.

Violence is a phenomenon that has been on the rise recently. This includes violence of stealing prescription pads from physicians and stealing Oxycontin pills from pharmacies using unfair means and violence. And at most of the times, the guns and other deadly weapons are used in this act too.

The stealing of Oxyontin pills have been on the rise in the cities of Canada. In the last few months quite a few incidents have been reported from Alberta and Ontario which are situated in the west and east central parts of Canada respectively. During the last July-August incidents of Oxycontin robbery took place at the Clinicare Pharmacy and Rexall Pharmacy which are situated in Lasalle Boulevard in Alberta. One case involved a man named Roger Shaw robbing 500 Oxycontin pills with the help of a handgun from Clinicare Pharmacy. However, he was arrested later. Two days after this incident a man armed with a gun robbed a large amount of Oxycontin from Rexall Pharmacy. Because of such incidents of violent robbery special task forces have been formed by the police of Ontario and Alberta. This is what an addiction can do to you.