Valleywag
Heard of OC-80? It's the Valley's next big drug, the strongest dose available of OxyContin — the same pain pills that got Rush Limbaugh hooked. A Valleywag informant who's a recovering OC-80 user himself says addicts are easy to spot: They're the ones who keep rushing to the front desk, asking if the FedEx deliveries have arrived yet. That's because the pills which get here are most frequently overnighted from L.A., where doctors are more willing to skirt the law and write prescriptions. It's expensive, and therefore deemed classy: People pay $70 a pill retail, $40 in bulk. Not that you're going to look especially swank while you scrape off the green coating, crush it, and snort it. Here's our tipster's tale of the real OC.
Why don't you publish more stories about the drug culture in the Valley? You do know that everyone who's anyone is on drugs. Mostly OC-80 pain killers, since they are the expensive $40/pill drug and much better than cocaine. Haven't you seen what goes on at parties? I don't know how to explain it as a previous addict (I haven't had pills in 6+ months), but you can spot everyone else like you a mile away, and even now my conversations turn to drugs.If what our tipster says is true, he's far from alone. Got a story? Send it in. Discretion assured.I recently did contract work for a company and the last person I interviewed with and I knew a common person, suddenly we made a drug joke, and pretty soon we both were on the same page, it's like a secret club, and I got the contract.
You have no idea (or maybe you do) the amount of prescription painkillers flowing in Silicon Valley. If you think that Hollywood has drug problems, the Valley is way, way worse. It's just that people keep it much more secret.
I can't even remember all the times I've been at some of the top 10 companies in the valley snorting OC with somebody who's on the board of a big company. It's sad really, I don't know how to explain it. After having spent two years addicted to OC and spending $100k+ and being a well functioning addict, I feel sorry for people who are on pills. It just makes me crazy somedays to know that everyone says drugs are bad, but EVERYONE who runs the world is on them....
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the world should just accept the fact that most people have to be drugged to be purely creative, and deal with certain types of jobs/skills that benefit from the affects of drugs.
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Oh finally, someone explains Web 2.0 to me. And here I was thinking it was all just about a group of Ajax junkies.
They probably snort that too!
"but you can spot everyone else like you a mile away"
What are the signs?
@WillClark: It's an innate sense possessed by the initiated... doesn't require overt physical signs. Call it drugdar.
eh yeah dunno how i'd cope w/o my klonnies
"everyone who's anyone is on drugs"
I'll have what Scoble's having.
@Stawker: Advil?
Gee, and all this time I thought it was the new fiber optic standard.
Uh, as opposed to all the business/finance/etc. types in other major cities NOT doing drugs?
Really?
Are you home in bed by 8PM every night or what?
That pill can and does kill people. It's 80 milligrams and the only people who are supposed to take it are cancer patients or people with intractable pain who have built up a tolerance to the drug. If you have not built up a tolerance to this drug, you can die from it and if you crush it up and take it you just up your chances.
It's not a joke. Stay away from it.
This makes me feel so much better about my softcore adderall abuse
Much better than cocaine? Meh.
AJAX is probably more usable when snorted than when absorbed through your computer screen.
@advice:
I have to agree...this drug killed a friend of mine the first time he tried it. Steer Clear!
Once again, silicon valley blows something that's supposed to be edgy or cool. I thought everyone knew that the 40s were more bang for the buck. When I had a painkiller problem, I only ever bought 80s as a last resort, because they're full of shit.
It might take Oxys to surviving the intense grind of a startup, but you're much more likely to find the spirit of the Valley in a strong tab of LSD. All the early pioneers of PCs and the internet? The wide-open creativity that generates many revolutionary ideas? Take a walk around the Black Rock desert sometime and you'll see how little painkillers have to do with any of it.
@The_Age_of_Plastic: a friend of mine can wax lyrical about the hallucinogenic properties of coke when it is cut with Tide. Apparently the Tide strips the greasy coating off your neurons or something... ick.
Also: I heard about this maybe two weeks ago. There was an article about all the drug use at some site called Gawker.com. Call me a cynic, call me an innocent, but I have to think that at the rates Denton is paying, they're making it up for media cred. They can't afford drug addictions at $12 a post.
Where does one go with ideas that he/she thinks may be revolutionary?
@Stawker: Prince Skippy's snorting a double-dose of fail. But don't worry, he's built up a tolerance to it.
at eBay we just snorted PEZ
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