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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone here knows someone who is affected by heroin or one of its first cousins, known by pharmaceutical names like Tramadol, [b]Xanax[/b], OxyContin, Hydrocodone... It's everywhere.[/quote]

Xanax is not an opioid, it's a benzodiazepine. [/quote]

I kind of get what this poster meant when they grouped Xanax in there.  At the rehab facility my cousin was in, they couldn't be on any benzos during their stay there.  My cousin had been on Xanax for anxiety for years and had to come off and switch to Zoloft before the facility would admit him.

His issue was he got hooked on pain pills after he injured himself playing HS basketball.  He was one of those star athletes that the docs just kept (over, IMO) prescribing pain meds so he could finish out the season.  He then had surgery to fix the issue and after getting the high doses in the hospital, the pills afterwards just wouldn't cut it for him.  He started using Heroin while rehabbing his injury and it wasn't until he OD'd (aunt found him passed out in his room) that they found out he had a problem.      [/quote]

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