little addition, the same article says: > A case from 2009 epitomizes this divide. Two sisters, injured in a car accident in South King County, needed pain rel

little addition, the same article says: > A case from 2009 epitomizes this divide. Two sisters, injured in a car accident in South King County, needed pain relief. One, with private insurance, received OxyContin, an expensive drug. The other, on Medicaid, received methadone — and within a week, overdosed and died. but OxyContin is also shit. for very different reasons than methadone, that I won't go into here right now. but fact of the matter is that neither are commonly prescribed as pain killer meds, outside the US. our politicians actually want less people to be on oxycodon (the generic) because it's terribly addictive, and campaign against it.