One of the REAL reasons for the Oxycodone shortage here in Florida.

[acman]

Hi all,
If you are a Florida resident you know what it's been like trying to get your Oxycodone prescription filled lately. It's been hell for most of us.
Well I kept thinking it was all related to DEA cutbacks and government crap but then I happen to find this article which sheds some bright light on something else that has obviously made the shortage much worse. They tried really hard to keep this story from going too public. Can you blame them? Actavis roxicodones account for about 60-70% of the generic brands offered in this State. You do the math here.... we're talking about 7 MILLION Roxi 30's.
Who thinks it was an inside job?
Enjoy the read!

Copy and Paste thisinto your browser. http://www.securingpharma.com/actavi...usa/s40/a1073/

Actavis opiate shipment hit by cargo thieves in USA


Phil Taylor
21-Oct-2011

Generic drugmaker Actavis suffered a full truckload (FTL) cargo theft on October 19, losing more than 30 pallets of opioid analgesics, benzodiazepines and epilepsy drugs.

The thieves made off with 14 pallets of oxycodone HCl tablets (around 70,000 units), six pallets of anxiety drug alprazolam (around 24,000 units) and nine pallets of the epilepsy drug gabapentin (about 5,000 units). The estimated value of the haul has not yet been released.

The shipment was taken at a truck stop in Washington County, Pennsylvania, whilst en route from a facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, according to an alert from the Pharmaceutical Cargo Security Consortium (PCSC).

The carrier was GSI Trucking and both trailer and tractor were taken after the driver left the vehicle running while he went inside the truck stop to purchase cigarettes. While the truck had a GPS tracker installed the alarm was not raised immediately because the legitimate driver was thought to be behind the wheel.

The tractor was recovered by Pennsylvania State Police but the trailer and its contents remain unaccounted for.

A quarterly update on North American cargo theft trends by Chubb Insurance notes that there were 16 pharmaceutical and over-the-counter medicines thefts in the third quarter of 2011, around 7 per cent of the total of 216 recorded in the period.

Pharmaceuticals were the fourth most common target for the thieves, after food and non-alcoholic beverages (42 losses), consumer electronics (23) and building materials (21). Clothing also featured highly with 15 incidents, followed by metals (14) and alcoholic drinks (12).

[normus420]

oh good lord. talk a bout a haul 70,000 units of roxy and 24,000 of xanax. by units do they mean bottles? or cases of bottles?

[acman]

By units they are talking about bottles containing 100 tabs each. 70,000 bottles x 100 pills = 7 million roxi 30's!

[opi]

OMG, imagine having 70,000 units of oxycodone at your house. I wonder if that truck was targeted specifically or It happened by chance, I'm guessing it was targeted. I have fantasized about doing this before.

[normus420]

oh hell yea it was targeted. prob got followed all the way from the factory. prob was an inside job or had some inside connections and most def it was organized crime, not just some strung out stick up kid.

[nodrover]

Jeez well oxy users you better hope it was organized crime so that the product is circulated. If it was a strung out kid then he's keepin that shit for himself!

[Lopossum]

I live in Pennsylvania and have NOT seen an increase in availability of 30s.

[Fat Pie]

Anyone think of this?:

[Opiofiend]

my friend aND i have joke-planned stunts like this as an opiod fantasy plenty of times. But for someone to actually pull it off for such a big score. HOLY SHITE is all I gotta say. 7MILLION ROXIS. Say there 30s, street value is $210million just for the roxi. What a fukn score. WHen we joked about our "heists" though, we always "targeted" truckloads of actiq and Fentora from the factory in salt lake city. If you havent had the pleasure of IR fenny, its fn great, and my doc by far. Raspberry flavored lollipops that get you flyn, the greatest invention ever

[Boy]

Fatpie you beat me to it, "2 n-----s just stole my truck!"

[OCD]

Good lord. If those were roxi 30s stollen for personal use you could do 100 roxi 30s a day for 190 years!!! HA!! You could literally never run out! Of course I'd end up overdosing something fierce if I had a supply like that. HA!

[jaupoon]

Here in Baltimore theres not quite as many oxycodones on the streets as there were a few years ago and the prices have gone up. However there is more heroin the past few years and the prices for smack are quite cheap.

[struggler]

OMG... Just the "high" from pulling this shit off would be so damn euphoric.. Unhooking that trailer, pulling with a new rig and making it the "spot" with the goods... OH god damn...

Strugg

[Count Zero]

Hi all,
If you are a Florida resident you know what it's been like trying to get your Oxycodone prescription filled lately. It's been hell for most of us.
Well I kept thinking it was all related to DEA cutbacks and government crap but then I happen to find this article which sheds some bright light on something else that has obviously made the shortage much worse. They tried really hard to keep this story from going too public. Can you blame them? Actavis roxicodones account for about 60-70% of the generic brands offered in this State. You do the math here.... we're talking about 7 MILLION Roxi 30's.
Who thinks it was an inside job?
Enjoy the read!

Copy and Paste thisinto your browser. http://www.securingpharma.com/actavi...usa/s40/a1073/

Actavis opiate shipment hit by cargo thieves in USA


Phil Taylor
21-Oct-2011

Generic drugmaker Actavis suffered a full truckload (FTL) cargo theft on October 19, losing more than 30 pallets of opioid analgesics, benzodiazepines and epilepsy drugs.

The thieves made off with 14 pallets of oxycodone HCl tablets (around 70,000 units), six pallets of anxiety drug alprazolam (around 24,000 units) and nine pallets of the epilepsy drug gabapentin (about 5,000 units). The estimated value of the haul has not yet been released.

The shipment was taken at a truck stop in Washington County, Pennsylvania, whilst en route from a facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, according to an alert from the Pharmaceutical Cargo Security Consortium (PCSC).

The carrier was GSI Trucking and both trailer and tractor were taken after the driver left the vehicle running while he went inside the truck stop to purchase cigarettes. While the truck had a GPS tracker installed the alarm was not raised immediately because the legitimate driver was thought to be behind the wheel.

The tractor was recovered by Pennsylvania State Police but the trailer and its contents remain unaccounted for.

A quarterly update on North American cargo theft trends by Chubb Insurance notes that there were 16 pharmaceutical and over-the-counter medicines thefts in the third quarter of 2011, around 7 per cent of the total of 216 recorded in the period.

Pharmaceuticals were the fourth most common target for the thieves, after food and non-alcoholic beverages (42 losses), consumer electronics (23) and building materials (21). Clothing also featured highly with 15 incidents, followed by metals (14) and alcoholic drinks (12).

Damn. Very interesting, thanks for posting-repped.

[digby]

And to think the truck was heading to a warehouse in Kentucky. Almost impossible to get opiates in Kentucky already and now this. Add this to all the current tornadoes, and you've got to consider the fact that Kentucky may just be cursed. Such a beautiful place too, but I figure all the lush green grass laden with some of the most striking horse flesh on the planet surrounded by pretty white fences is just to suck you in.

Then your RX gets hijacked and your double wide gets sucked up into the sky. It seems that everything DOES suck in Kentucky.

[Bricks & Stacks]

I can't click the link so I dont know if it said it on the site but it doesn't seem to me like you could fit 7 million miles on 14 pallets. Usually unit refers to singles, like when they say 10 units of heroin its 10 bags.

[John T Hooker]

Almost impossible to get opiates in Kentucky already and now this.

I feel ya. I'm quitting. Been clean for 4 days.

7 million roxi's. I would never take a shit again.

[Boy]

LOL John I'd never thought of it that way

Bricks - Say each pill weighs 40mg (generously adding binders..etc)

7,000,000 x 40 = 280,000,000mg / 1000mg = 280,000g / 28 = 10,000oz / 16 = 625lbs

Lets add another 300lbs (being generous) to cover padding, boxes, and wooden pallets.

925lbs for Oxys and it also had another smaller amount of Xanax pallets. Looks about right for a semi

I think someone stated they were bottles of 100. I'm sure you could fit a ton of bottles in a series of boxes stacked up taped. What is the weight limit per pallet?

[OpanaKing]

This is the coolest thing i've read in along time. These guys are set for life. But i'm sure it wasn't only one person that pulled it off. They probably dont even care about dividing it up. The fact that they got away with it is just fucking great.

[Dr. McKay]

Definatly a inside job!!!!