In your kitchen or bathroom right now is one of the hottest drugs for addicts in Central Ohio.
All right here we go this is everything that we have diane sealy is a mom who likes to keep her medications and her family’s front and center this one is lortab this one is prednisone this is vicodin this is what i just had for the dental work that i had done and that foam pretty cool because that’s some potent stuff no doubt potent stuff sitting in her kitchen
Cabinets with quite the street value have you ever heard of street rx calm it’s a website that’s gonna make you do a double-take it lists the prices of prescription painkillers not what you pay for them at the pharmacy but what you buy them for on the street you’ll learn a lot just looking through this site about a new wave of drug addicts and this new wave is
Well represented on even popular tv shows ask your kids this season on the new 90210 a main character is battling a vhd medication addiction medication the only thing they can think about is how they’re going to get their next dose how are they going to secure jarrod bauer is a pharmacist in uptown pharmacy in westerville we’ve had patients that we find out when
We’re filling prescriptions they’ve been to four or five doctors in the area they’ve been to four or five different pharmacies they’re getting the same medications and they’re they’re trying anything they can to get as much of the product as possible so you have to have that conversation with them where hey i’m concerned about what you’re what’s going on diane’s
Medications and their location will set off alarms for many families we use street our xcom to price her drugs ones lortab the price on the street this one is going for ten bucks a pill her vicodin four dollars a pill really yeah which you still have a few left in there it sounds like and some pills go for thirty dollars even sixty if you have a party or a person
Over that has a problem and you don’t know about it these pills are gone they’re gonna be looking and they can easily get access in your kitchen cabinets or your medicine cabinet and you don’t even think anything about it till a few days later when you notice they’re missing or if it’s something you’re not taking any more you may never even realize they took a
Few doses out of the bottle definitely thinking that i don’t need to keep it in the cabinet where it’s so easily accessible we bagged up diane’s meds and took them to our pharmacist she wanted to get rid of them but there was a problem can you get rid of us i can’t pharmacist cannot take back medications you can mail in most medications in this envelope to an
Authorized pill take bag group but you cannot send in the high-dollar narcotics ambien i can’t put this in you can’t put that one in there because because it’s a controlled substance okay vicodin can’t put that one in there lortab know we’re on the verge of an epidemic tony mirada is with the drug enforcement agency based in columbus a lot of people think just
Taking a pill is not gonna really hurt you it’s not gonna turn you into an addict you’re not snorting it you’re not shooting it you’re not smoking it you know they think just by getting a glass of water and taking a pill nothing bad’s gonna happen but that’s the start when people run out of money down the line they’re moving on to heroin marauder says it’s the
Same kind of high that these pills give destroys destroys and it all can starts in your medicine cabinet i had no idea that there was worth you know a street value makayla hunt nbc 4
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The Street Value Of Your Medicine Cabinet By NBC4 Columbus
