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Edward Leroy Orr
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NAPLES — Collier County sheriff’s deputies arrested a 47-year-old Marco Island man Wednesday after they say he attempted to purchase Oxycontin pills from an undercover investigator.
Edward Leroy Orr, 29 Madagascar Court, was charged with attempting to purchase a controlled substance, a third-degree felony.
Around 5:45 p.m. the undercover investigator met Orr at the Freedom Square Plaza at the intersection of Collier Boulevard and U.S. 41, the Sheriff’s Office reported. The investigator negotiated to sell Orr nine placebo Oxycontin pills for $120.
Orr handed the investigator $118 in exchange for the placebo pills, reports said. He was then arrested.
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I TOLD YOU WE SHOULDN'T HAVE BOUGHT THAT PIECE OF JUNK "MARCO MAN". LOOK WHAT HE IS DOING!!! blasted DRUGGY.
#1 Posted by Ed_Foster on September 4, 2008 at 4:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)
remember ow the state sued the tobacco companies.
It's about time they sue the companies that make oxycontin. This legal drug is like any other illegal drug that people steal for and get addicted to.
#2 Posted by kneejerk on September 4, 2008 at 4:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I thought that was entrapment.
#3 Posted by snooker on September 4, 2008 at 4:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)
kneejerk: tell that to the terminal cancer patient who is severe pain and for whom this medication provides merciful relief...or to others in similar states. Perhaps you will pass on in your sleep dreaming great dreams, but some suffer immeasurable pain on their journey.
I liked Ed_Foster's comment. Hello statue?
#4 Posted by BlueTonguedVole on September 4, 2008 at 5:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sc um bag white trash......there, now does that make everyone feel better?
I WISH we could deport this one, but he's probably a citizen.......we'll just have to be happy with a (hopefully) long prison sentence.
#5 Posted by okay on September 4, 2008 at 6:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)
There IS a multimillion dollar lawsuit against the manufacturer, for failing to disclose the extreme danger for addiction of this drug.
Blue, you have a good point. This drug should be used and closely monitored for cancer and last step patients, but it should definitely be very closely monitored for all prescriptions written, duplications at other pharmacies, and for how often it is being refilled.
Doctors who write multiple prescriptions,or just refill "over the phone," without requiring an office update, should be questioned.
This young man claims to be 29, but look at the effects of regular drug abuse. He looks to be at least 40.
#6 Posted by indigodragonfly on September 4, 2008 at 7:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Oops, sorry, misread the article. He is in his 40'2.
#7 Posted by indigodragonfly on September 4, 2008 at 7:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)
40's!!!
I need to stop doing so much computer "analysis".
Too much bottom feeder coffee!
#8 Posted by indigodragonfly on September 4, 2008 at 7:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
IT'S ENTRAPMENT !!! SUE, SUE, SUE !!!
#9 Posted by Chenzo on September 4, 2008 at 7:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Boy is it White Trash sweeps week? Lots of stories on White picture collar crime..... Maybe he had a real bad headache........
#10 Posted by theabyss on September 4, 2008 at 8:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I have a few ideas on other ways to use my tax dollars than this pettiness.
#11 Posted by 37inches on September 4, 2008 at 8:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Dang, that's illegal??!!
#12 Posted by almasonlybar on September 4, 2008 at 8:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Oh my God, NDN changed my
B a d A s s coffee to
"bottom feeder."
Too funny!
#13 Posted by indigodragonfly on September 4, 2008 at 9:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)
What's Rush Limbaugh's pusher doing in our backyard?
#14 Posted by Indyvote on September 4, 2008 at 9:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)
It is sad when people become addicted to prescription drugs. There has to be a better way than putting these people through the criminal justice syatem. Rehab needs to be an option. Our court system is to backed up already .
#15 Posted by nightranger on September 4, 2008 at 10:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Oxycontin must be really,really good stuff. Seems there are always people willing to buy it and go to jail for it. 10 plus bucks a pill this pillhead was willing to part with.
Isn't it the synthetic pill form of Morphine?
Glad I'm only addicted to the internet. LOL
#16 Posted by Jadip811 on September 5, 2008 at 5:01 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I expected to see a hispanic or a haitian, wow, what a shock, it's a white man.....
#17 Posted by sock_puppet on September 5, 2008 at 7:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Its only entrapment if you are coerced/harassed into doing something you wouldnt do. Did the undercover officer constantly hound this person trying to get him to buy from him until he finally caved in and made the purchase? I highly doubt it.
#18 Posted by SandnSurf on September 5, 2008 at 9:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
ugh what b.s. poor guy thought he was going to be getting high and he gets taken to jail... :(
#19 Posted by tee on September 5, 2008 at 9:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Indigo, in #7 you wrote: "Doctors who write multiple prescriptions,or just refill "over the phone," without requiring an office update, should be questioned."
Good point, even with such "benign" medication as antibiotics medication can be abused. I know that in some communities antibiotic medication was being sold underground to "cure" assorted diseases for which they were never intended. All professionals who write prescriptions are obliged to review what their patients are taking, but many do not.
That being said:
I believe that this particular medication cannot be refilled and that a printed prescription is required each time it is dispensed from a pharmacy.
Addiction as part of the human condition has a long history. Finding ways to curb/control and effectively deal with it, so far has a very checkered history.
#20 Posted by BlueTonguedVole on September 5, 2008 at 9:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Jadip811,
It's not a synthetic form of Morphine.
It's a time released version of Oxycodone. Used as designed, it's an effective, long acting painkiller.
Abusers crush the Oxycontin and snort it, giving them the entire dosage at once, instead of over 12 hours as designed.
#21 Posted by mthalo on September 5, 2008 at 11:12 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Cheaper to drink........ Baddd Asssss Coffeeeeee
#22 Posted by theabyss on September 5, 2008 at 4:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"mthalo is cutthroatconservative"
No, mthalo is a retired
a) cop?
b) doctor?
c) junkie?
#23 Posted by mthalo on September 5, 2008 at 4:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sure it's not you, techie?
Majority of your comments do.
#24 Posted by indigodragonfly on September 5, 2008 at 8:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Scary Mthalo. Are you familiar with the Collier County jail and David Lawrence procedures as well?
LOL
Stick with drinking, at home. Saves you the attorneys fees and jail time. LOL
#25 Posted by Jadip811 on September 6, 2008 at 8:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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