[madison10]

Doesn't a person need rather large amounts to get addicted? or is this a myth perpetuated by the National Enquirer-- "Rush took hundreds of pills daily" theme?

Taking a scrip according to the doctor's orders should not be at addiction levels. Is that not the case? Isn't the physician majorly culpable here? IF the scrip says take "as needed for pain" & they run out doesn't the doctor need to do a close evaluation to see if the pills actually did what they were supposed to do?

Forgive my ignorance here.

[ohioWfan]

My Dad got addicted to Oxycontin very quickly, just by getting some from his oncologist, and some from his GP.

It's a quickly addicting drug. Fortunately he was old and frail enough to start hallucinating, so we were alerted to it, and he was hospitalized and removed from the drug.

[Lazamataz]

Doesn't a person need rather large amounts to get addicted?

No.

Taking a scrip according to the doctor's orders should not be at addiction levels.

Theoretically, sure. Doesn't always work out like that though. The shit is just as addictive as hell and doctors can only go on a patients word and their own experience, really.