The Partnership for a Drug Free America (PDFA) has been in the forefront of bringing awareness to the ramifications of illicit drug use.  If it is an illegal drug, PDFA has been outspoken against it.  However, the PDFA organization has apparently lost its focus and purpose.  In our State of Florida, the Florida Medical Examiners Report indicated over 700 people died from an overdose of oxycodone and another 549 people had oxycodone in their body at the time of their death.  An active ingredient in the brands Oxycontin and Percocet contain oxycodone.

On the PDFA website, two supporters of FDFA are the Purdue Pharma and Endo pharmaceutical companies, both major marketers of products that contain oxycodone.  To my knowledge, the PDFA has never publicly spoken out on the dangers of specific prescription brand names and seldom on the generic drug names.  In Florida, the Medical Examiners report indicates we lost over seven times more people last year to oxycodone than we reportedly lost to heroin.  Over eleven times more people had oxycodone in their bodies at the time of their deaths than heroin in the same year, 2007.  Any narcotics officer and addiction counselor will tell you that oxycodone and heroin are basicly interchangable. 

Both on the radio show of 9/21 and via this blog, it is a fair question in asking if the drug companies have taken over the control of the Partnership for a Drug Free America.  When is PDFA going to speak out on the addictions and death being implicated from Oxycontin, Percocet, Vicodin, Methadone, Duragesic, etc?   PDFA - YOU HAVE BEEN BUSTED ON THE PRESCRIPTION ADDICTION RADIO SHOW - BREAKING THE SILENCE    Larry G.