New England Patriots Nick Kaczur caught with 202 Oxycontin Pills

When New England Patriots offensive lineman Nick Kaczur was arrested in upstate New York in April, he had 202 OxyContin pills labeled as being made in Canada, according to police reports.

Kaczur was arrested in New York on April 27 after police said a small amount of OxyContin was found in his truck following a traffic stop. Kaczur then helped federal authorities arrest the man who was allegedly supplying him with the drug.

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Next week, Kaczur is scheduled to be arraigned in Whitestown, N.Y., town court on a charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, a misdemeanor. OxyContin, a powerful and potentially addictive prescription painkiller, is also sold as a street drug as its effects mirror those of heroin. According to police reports, Kaczur, who was returning from his hometown of Brantford, Ontario, had the pills in his pocket when he was pulled over on April 27 on the New York State Thruway in Whitestown, just west of Utica.

Football Players experience a lot of pain and probably many aches even in the off season but training camp is coming up it looks like Nick Kaczur needed a boost. New England has had enough of its ownn controversy to have more! Oxycontin is not a laughing matter and can lead to death - many people have overdosed including other celebrities!

Oxycontin Withdrawal

Symptoms

The symptoms of withdrawal are often the reverse of intoxication. Withdrawal and detox includes dilated pupils, diarrhea, runny nose, goose bumps, and abdominal pain.

Prescription Opiate Detox

Opiate detox and withdrawal is caused by stopping or dramatically reducing, opiate use after heavy and prolonged use. Opiates include codeine, Oxycontin, Dilaudid, methadone, and others. The reaction frequently includes sweating, shaking, headache, drug craving, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramping, diarrhea, inability to sleep, confusion, agitation, depression, anxiety, and other behavioral changes.

Treatment of Opiate Prescription Detox

The FDA has approved a new medication for use in the treatment of opiate prescription detox. This medication, called buprenorphine, may help both physical and mental withdrawal symptoms. Some drug treatment programs have widely advertised treatments for opiate withdrawal called detox under anesthesia or rapid opiate detox. This involves anesthetizing the patient and injecting large doses of opiate-blocking drugs, with hopes that this will speed up the transition to normal opioids system function. Treatment of withdrawal includes supportive care and medications.

Opiate Complications

The biggest complication is return to drug use. Most opiate overdose deaths occur in people who have just withdrawn or detox. Because withdrawal reduces a previously-developed tolerance, recently withdrawn addicts can overdose on a much smaller dose than they used to take daily. Addicts should be warned about this possibility. Addicts withdrawing from opiates should be assessed for depression and other mental illnesses. Appropriate treatment of such disorders can reduce the risk of relapse, and antidepressant medications should NOT be withheld under the assumption that the depression is only related to withdrawal and not a pre-existing condition.

Causes, incidence, and risk factors

About 5% of the population is believed to misuse opiates, including illegal drugs like heroin and prescribed pain medications such as Oxycontin. These drugs can cause physical dependence. This means that there is a reliance on the drug to prevent symptoms of withdrawal and detox. Over time, greater amounts of the drug become necessary to produce the same effect. The time it takes to become physically dependent varies with each individual. When the drugs are stopped, the body needs time to recover, and withdrawal detox symptoms result. Withdrawal and detox from opiates can occur whenever any chronic use is discontinued or reduced.

reprinted from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health