All based on forged prescriptions:
. . . I suspect when all is said and done, we’ll be looking at several hundred thousand dollars (street value) of illegally-gotten OxyContin, if not in the millions.
For those of you that don’Â’t know, OxyContin has a street value of about $1 per milligram. That means an 80mg tablet is worth $80 on the street. That means a bottle of 100 is worth … $8000. A bottle of 100 80mg tablets costs just over $1,000 at full retail pharmacy price.












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