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What 26-year-old Ashley Gunn of Gainesville has called a lifesaver over the past five years also has killed nearly than twice as many area residents as oxycodone, the drug at the center of Florida's prescription drug epidemic.
Cure for Oxycodone Addiction Can Be Deadly
Seeded on Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:19 PM EST
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In the deadliest year out of the last five — 2008 — local statistics show that methadone killed area residents at a rate nearly on par with the national murder rate, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But Gunn, a waitress and the mother of three children, credits the daily dose of methadone she has been administered for the past year at Meridian Behavioral Healthcare Services with recovering her car, her job and her relationship with her husband.
These were all parts of her life that her addiction to the powerful painkiller oxycodone nearly stole from her.
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#1 - Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:20 PM ESTThere is no margin of error with methadone. As a nurse, I'll tell you even in the hospital we are very careful with it.
All part of the warped war on drugs.
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