Don't try this at home, boys and girls. But according to many, many doctors, many, many addicts have made the Internet their drug dealer of choice.

"It's easy," Brian Fidlin, a psychologist with Wisconsin’s Aurora Behavioral Health Services, was quoted as saying in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "You can sit in your living room and order this stuff and it comes to your door the next day in a box. You don’t even have to get in your car and travel to certain neighborhoods."

An addict identified only as John said he successfully ordered 180 Vicodin tablets in less than half an hour. "I went to Google and typed in Vicodin. All you need is a credit card that works."

On a bit of a downer note, the rate of overdoses apparently is rising as well.

Unlike the Milwaukee paper, we will not publish the names of sites that provide such drug services. We'll just keep them for ourselves.

Posted at May 07, 2004 11:41 AM