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He was the catcher and the batter was up there and swung and missed the ball and hit him right in the mouth with the baseball bat and broke all of his top teeth, said Robinson. It took months and months before his den- tal plan was approved. He was in pain and I guess he started taking some painkillers that I had in my medicine cabinet left over from sur- gery that I had. When he finished these pills, Robinson said, someone introduced James to Oxycontin. Oxycontin is an opiate designed for long- term pain relief. Robinson said it is an effective drug when used properly. He said it eased his brothers pain when he was dying from cancer. Where Oxycontin becomes dangerous, he said, is when it is used illegally. Oxycontin is becoming an increasingly pop- ular street drug and is stolen from pharmacies, sold by people who have prescriptions for it and now even illegally manufactured to fuel its growing underground demand. When snorted or injected, Oxycontin gives the user an intense feeling of euphoria, but this feeling is incredibly addictive. Robinson said it is possible to become addicted to Oxycontin after just a week of this type of use. What happens, after you start using it, is it takes more and more to get that same feeling and so you start taking a little more and then it takes even more. Then, as soon as you stop tak- ing it or try to stop taking it, now all of a sud- den you are addicted and you get withdrawal symptoms. The withdrawal symptoms are nau- sea, body pains and various other things, said Robinson. Theres an addict in this documentary Ive got and he says, Imagine to yourself the worst flu youve ever had in your life and multiply it by 10. Thats the way you feel when you come off it. By this time, the euphoria felt from taking Oxycontin is gone and it is now just being taken to escape the withdrawal symptoms. Robinson said James was struggling with this kind of addiction and at times was going through these intense withdrawal symptoms, but Robinson didnt know this. For the longest time, James hid his addic- tion from his parents even enduring a colonoscopy at one point rather than admitting the illness he was experiencing was actually Oxycontin withdrawal symptoms. It was only when creditors began calling because James had maxed out his credit cards and line of credit on drugs that his parents became aware there was a problem. Robinson had given James $4,000 to help pay some of this debt only to have the bank call a few days later asking where the money was. I talked to James and I asked where the money was and he said he spent it. I said, What do you mean you spent it, that was $4,000, what did you spend it on, said Robinson. He just looked at me and he said, Dad, Im a drug addict. Soon after James began treatment for his addiction. This treatment included taking methadone to wean him off the Oxycontin, but while the methadone eliminated his withdrawal symp- toms and allowed him to work, it was not always easy to get. To get his methadone, Robinson said, James had to drive to a methadone clinic in Hamilton. There was one pharmacy in Oakville where James could fill his methadone prescription, but because he worked shift work he couldnt always get to the store when he needed to. I was very, very upset several months ago when they were trying to put a methadone clin- ic on Kerr Street and the Kerr residents got together and said, We dont want these horri- ble, terrible drug addicts on our street, said Robinson. Wellthose terrible, horrible drug addicts are your sons and daughters, your brothers and sisters and your mothers and fathers and they are just people and they need help. They really do need help. Son hid his addiction from his parents Continued from page 1 See Son page 14