She switched to Roxicodone in 2010, when OxyContin became abuse-resistant, then to heroin when the black-market Roxys became more expensive and harder to get. “It’s unreal how many people followed that same pattern: Oxys-Roxys-heroin,” she told me. “If you ask me, OxyContin is the sole reason for all this heroin abuse. If I had the choice between heroin and Oxys, I would choose Oxys.…With pills, you always knew what you were getting.”
