The water droplets may be from condensation. . i'm not sure but it looks bad and when i say it looks bad, i mean drug dealer/addict bad. 360 Generic Vicodin Tabs? Someones either in a lot of pain or addicted. Perhaps they tore the name off because it was stolen, then if questioned they could claim "the label tore, sure its mine." As for the 'ouride', nothing comes to mind. Helene Malabed, eh? Sounds like a faker to me. death Overdose. Did you look under the bushes? hubarkus! 10 Mg Hydrocodones have a street value ranging from 3-10 dollars, depending on your middleman. Soemone with a prescription obviously met someone at the gas station, and sold them their monthly supply. My guess for the bottle with liquid is methadone, as most people hooked on painkillers are also hooked on dope. The methadone can also be sold, so the junkie can get the high they REALLY want! The secret mixture needed to keep the Golden bear shiny Someone got high or sold the pills for gas, then sniffed the fumes and told grandma, 'I don't know what happend to your damn pills!' pharmer running from the cops ditched their drugs Someone enjoyed a narcotic fix. Hydrocodone is about as strong as oxycontin. Drug addicts found it in the trash. Medicine stolen from home by hoodlums who didn't realize how worthless they were. drug deal gone bad, or in progress. is there something we need to know about Rob? Looks like trash to me. I don't really get the mystery. -Josh i believe that you have seen the left overs of a drug dealer or addict, at least they removed the names, that makes them kinda smart....right? probably a drug theft... the jerk stole the drugs from the lady to whom it is prescribed, took the contents and dumped the bottles...the fact they landed on a leaf is incosiquential. drug abuser, wanted to hide his stash I don't know, but I wish I had those pills. They are the good ones! n This could easily be prescription forgery or an actual doctor prescribed painkiller gotten by patient faking etc. Then the pills can be sold on the street, as many are addicted to painkillers and these are powerful. The part of the label being torn off would include the patients name as to avoid detection. The Easter Bunny is fighting chemical addiction. My guess is that these were stolen prescriptions, especially since the large one is for Vicodin. The larger bottle is a Vicodin bottle (Hydrocodone is vicodin) Im sure somebody was selling it Methadone HydroclOURIDE on the smalll bottle? Is that a liquid? Obviously, some tweaker has exhausted their supply of Hydrocodone and some other drug, and discarded the bottles out the window after huffing some gas at the Chevron station. a drug overdose! Someone's gonna die :( Those 'bottles' are the fruit of the Vicodin plant. These are usually found near pharmacies for easy harvesting. I bet there is a Walgreen's nearby. hey rob you may want to...cover up that phone number in that first one. i dont think she wants ranodom people calling her up. after the hobo finished with the prescription medication buzz, he traveled to the Chevron to get some gas to drink. Everybody knows Chevron has the best shit in town. Hydrocodone is a drug with a history of abuse, it can make you feel silly. This bottle had the portion of the label on it with the name of the person for whom the prescription was written removed, so that it would be more difficult to trace back to them. The pills were probably either stolen or sold. a junkie stole them from someone and ripped the label off so they couldnt be tracked That is totally how you make a hydrocodone plant isnt it? Dr. Malabed seems to be a legitimate Sacremento family doctor (and wine lover). She prescribed Vicodin to somebody. The acetaminophen (tylenol) is mixed into the Vicodin to prevent people from taking too much (you get sick if you take too much tylenol). M367 is a 10 mg dose, which is moderate, but 360 pills is a 3-month supply, at 4 pills a day, so it may be used to treat chronic, rather than temporary, pain. The person in the parking lot probably finished the bottle, then tore their name off the label to protect their privacy before littering their refuse into the bushes. Well, the first bottle is for generic Vicodin. Can't read enough of the second bottle, but if it's a liquid, my theory is that it was for a hospice patient in the home. They tend to get prescribed a liquid painkiller for use after they're no longer able to take pills. My first thought was that the bottles were stolen and emptied by the thief for personal use or for resale, but they'd have had no reason to take the patient's identifying info (the top half of the labels) off the stolen bottles. My theory is that someone's elderly relative died, and the caretaker, not having the heart to flush Grandma's narcotics, removed the identifying info and either gave or sold them to an addict, who put them into an easier-to-hide container while getting gas or using the Chevron bathroom. Alternatively, they could have stolen the stuff from Grandma's purse/car while she and the caregiver were getting gas (on the way back from the pharmacy), but the question of the removed labels is still there. eh? I dunno... Ask Veronica Mars! Drugged up elves. three words "Illegal Prescription Deals" This is from sort of twisted mob hit. It didn't take place a the gas station, but was planted there in the shrub. No my friend, this was done somewhere else. It was a professional hit, but a sloppy one at that. I'm guessing it was like training for a new mobster. The bottles were from the guy that got it in the end. The names removed from them so they would find out who it was right away, but they did leave a way to find out who it is. Not by fingerprint..NO, the bottles were wiped clean. The droplets of liquid on the inside are tears! Now I think it was supposed to be blood in there, but like I said, I think they were mobsters in training, so they screwed up there. What looks like happened is that they held the bottle under one of he eyes and told him really sad stories, but doesn't look like they were sad enough because it's just not many tears. He must have heard or been through worse to make any more. Anyhow, they stashed the bottles there and probably took him to the marina or harbor or peir...anywhere they can tie on the cement block and drop him into the water. I think you should start looking there. My work here is done! Better luck on your next one bad guys. Someones drugs got stolen by your hopeful local drug addict. hobos. I don't think the big bottle of Vicadin was stolen. This is a huge bottle of Vicadin. To find and steal such a bottle would be very, very lucky. I think it was sold by the original prescribed patient to one or more addicts. someone was cleaning out their car... hmm. I didnt know plants made good tables. [three minuits later] "okay, I'm done cleaning now!" [leaving bottle on plant leaves] Probably someone either stole someone elses perscription drugs, ripped off their names (so it can't be traced) and dumped the pill bottles. Two words: Homosexual Comptrollers 1: You didn't know medicine bottles grew on shrubs? Splatman's Theory: The large bottle contains almost invisible specks of otherworldly matter and the little one contains a few drops of otherworldly liquid. These couldn't be passed directly from the provider to the conumer, so thay were put here and a secret communication wuz sent to the consumer to cum pik um up. 12/5/06 51:16 someone left that there to wait for the dealer to put their stash in there. i mean, hydrocodone, come on. WHO CARES? Hydrocodone, more commonly known as Vicodin, is a commonly abused perscription medicine. Maybe someone on a Vicodin high thought that if they left the bottle there, it'd magically regenerate and make even more painkillers! Norco addict went NUTS and tried to make peace with the tree by offering a sacrifice (expires after 7/01/09) its a medicine tree? theory? try hypothesis Hobart, the night attendant at the gas station, is clearly addicted to this hydrocodone stuff (looked it up, it's habit forming I guess). The bottle is still being inspected. Well, it says No Refills Left. Maybe Helene's waiting for someone to find those bottles and call them in, so she can go crying to her doctor about stolen medication. amateur street pharmacist threw out the packaging from their latest inventory acquisition. Someone bought the drugs from the convenience store, and then threw out the bottles to go buy more as they are selling the drugs in illegal quantities Somebody bought the drugs from the woman, transferred containers, and ditched the actual med bottles. They're obviously the "fun" kind of prescription drugs. the scond bottle appears to be for fluoride tablets They took off the top of the label because it has name adress etc then used them as ghetto christmas decorations After the prescription was done, the original owner of the container rinsed it with water (which explains the droplets of water inside and the peeled back/washed away label). Deciding to go for the cheap way out instead of trying to dispose of the container properly, they tossed it into a plant. Since the labels had been partly removed (due to HIPPA laws), they have probably already been refilled at a pharmacy and discarded. The same garbage truck that picks up from a local pharmacy was at this gas station and they fell out. The patient got confused and thought it was July 2, 2009. Too many lemons! The shrub pick pocketed the drugs from a passerby. Notice the shiny, luxuriant leaves of the drug abusing shrub thriving while the dead leaves of depressed shrubs decompose in the din of a waning winter sun. Hydrocodone is fancy talk for Vicodin (I think)... The name was torn off so it couldn't be tracked down and they were sold to somebody else... Condensation caused one to get wet... Happens all the time... This is a new, budget-form of drug testing. If there are no bodies found near the bottles, the contents are put on the fast track for FDA approval! teenage junkies I think someone got drunk. I ates them pills. Maybe somebody was stealing some Vicodin for a fix? Noting that hydrocodone is a habit-forming narcotic analgesic, it is possible that the user ran out and couldn't get a prescription for more, so they left their empties strategically placed on the leaves for their "supplier" to pick up and refill for them. The part of the label that was removed included their name, so that they couldn't be tracked down by the authorities. Hydrocodone is a narcotic and addictive. It is often packaged with acetaminophen as a pain reliever. Hard core addicts will soak the pills in water to extract the opiate. If large amounts of the acetaminophen/hydrocodone mixture is consumed, severe liver damage will occur. What you found is a kit for an addict. The pills from "doctor shopping" were put in the second container (the one with the liquid) to dissolve the opiate and leave the acetaminophen behind. The resulting liquid is consumed for the addicts "high." My theory is that Rush Limbaugh was in your neighborhood. The larger bottle is for generic Norco, which is essentially Vicodin (hydrocodone and acetaminophen). The smaller bottle was probably for Glyburide tablets, which are taken by diabetics. The top halves of the labels were removed because that's where the patient information is printed. Dr. Helene Malabed is the prescribing physician, at least for the hydrocodone. 360 tablets is a lot to prescribe at once. That's a 60-day supply at six tablets per day, the maximum recommended dose. At a guess, the bottom one was probably reused and had something that the user drank with the pills (water? liquor?). The bottles were discarded when they were empty. So, in a nutshell, somebody with a friendly doctor is driving around Sacramento, loopy on painkillers. What happened is many people called the phone number on the lable, irritating the person on the other end. Hydrocodone is commonly known as Vicodin. With the identifying info peeled off the label, I'd say illicit drug use is what's happening here. They were probably stolen from someone. Somebody is selling on the street their own Rx or stolen Rx of this pain reliever. Qty 360 probably is for a 3-month Rx, a reasonable 2 pills a day. If that qty was for one month, 12 pills a day would put you into acetaminophen poisoning territory (anyone truly needing that much pain relief would be on a morphine patch or drip). The first one looks like one of those single dose things they give to heroin addicts trying to get them to stop using it by giving them weaker drugs. hydrocodone is one of those drugs Math correction and additional comment : Somebody is selling on the street their own Rx or stolen Rx of this pain reliever. Qty 360 probably is for a 3-month Rx, a (still) reasonable 4 pills a day. If that qty was for one month, 12 pills a day would put you into acetaminophen poisoning territory (anyone truly needing that much pain relief would be on a morphine patch or drip). Doubtful that any insurance would pay for that, so if this is a one-month Rx it would require cash payment, doctor-patient-pharmacy collusion and lax oversight or recordkeeping fraud. the hydrocodone (as known as vicodin) has been dropped by dr gregory house (from the tv show house) after finishing the prescription! SENIORS ATTEMPT TO THWART HIGH COST OF MEDICARE DRUGS some druggie. Hi, this is Helene Malabed. Could you please take this off your website. I keep getting phone calls. Just kidding. I tried the Helene name as an anagram and came up with this: AMENDABLE HEEL. I think that about sums it up for us. What, you've never seen a Hydrocodone tree? Those are everywhere! As a pharmacist, I could give a couple opinions. The large bottle contained hydrocodone/acetaminophen tablets in the highest strength of hydrocodone produced. This is a controlled substance (the same ingredients as Vicodin). Someone could have stolen the pills, emptied the bottle, and removed the original patient name to avoid tracing back. It looks to be a bottle directly from a pharmacy. The smaller bottle may have contained glyburide (the only drug I can think of that fits the partial name). That is for diabetes, but if it was with the other bottle could have gotten stolen along with it. It is a style of bottle commonly used by mail-order pharmacies. The stolen theory fits in with their final resting place. However, when patients bring in their bottles to retail pharmacies to ask for refills and do not want their empties back, the pharmacist will tear off at least the portion of label containing the patient's name and send it for shredding. This has happened since Dateline NBC dug through the trash behind pharmacies a few years ago and showed that people could find out what drugs random people were taking, or then use that info to call in and pick up refills for pain meds and such. This doesn't explain the bottles final resting place as nicely, but someone could have dug through some trash for whatever reason. I can't identify the pharmacy from the label style, but "Helene Malabed" is the prescribing health professional and that phone number is likely to her office. The acetaminophen warnings are because taking more than 4 grams (8 xtra strength tabs) of Tylenol in 24 hours can lead to liver failure. Most likely if done over large periods of time, but a large enough single dose of Tylenol can kill you. You chewed a few too many of those and now you need to ask us how they got there... My Mom got out the other day and returned without her medication. She kept rambling on about monkeys folding shirts at the local drycleaners. hmmmm..... The Hydrocodone is a highly controlled substance and sold on the street when available. The top part of the label probably had the refill number that you use to dial into your pharmacy to refill the script. Pharmacy's don't always ask for ID so if you had that number and dialed in a refill, almost anyone could go pick it up and then sell the pills for quite a profit. Not sure what was in the other container. Rush Limbaugh stopped by to gas up at the pumps and with a 99 cent chili cheese dog with all the toppings Gregory House had to fill his bike with gas. It's a stern warning for those who have any idea what this is all about. hydrocodone is codeine, commonly used by teenages for enjoyment. most likely someone has a prescription, rips off their name, then sells it to kids. this is the dumped remains after usage p No idea on the drugs, but the 2nd bottle is probably glyburide, a diabetes med. Someone was going to use the containers for Geocaches and placed them with out the logbooks inside... Micro Geocache? they were probably stolen from someone. they thief then discarded the bottles after pocketing the pills. hydrocodone is the generic name for vicodin, which runs about 15 bucks a pill on the street. Someone couldn't find the trash can. A pharmacist saw you coming and decided to drop some trash there. Litter. drugged-out plant broke into helene's medicine cabinet Hovercraft this one is pretty obvious. someone re-sold their narcotics meds on the street. hydrocodone is an opiate. Obviously, everybody's favorite addicted doctor House had some perscriptions of vicodin under an assumed name and had to ditch em in a hurry. Obviously, anyone who has a prescription for 360 hydrocodones (vicodin) has got to be in a lot of pain. So here's what happened. When this person, who by the placement on such a low place must be between 5'1" and 5'6", was a small child, she (you can tell it's a she because the placement of the bottles is neat, but not obsessive-compulsively neat, which is the only way any man would put something down with care) was mauled by a koala bear, thus severely misaligning her spine. Not being a believer in alternative medicine, she has refused to go to a chiropractor and instead sees a specialist who has performed 3 intensely painful and involved surgeries to correct her spine. The fact that the hydrocodone is in a mix of 10/325 (10 mg hydrocodone/325mg acetaminophin) suggests this woman is opiate tolerant, as high doses of acetaminophin are generally added to hydrocodone to prevent misuse. (The acetaminophin in high doses causes unpleasant pain, headaches, nausea and hepatoxicity. A normal dosage is usually 100 times as much acetaminophin as hydrocodone, for example 5/500 or 7.5/750.) Higher ratios are only given to opiate tolerant patients in severe pain. That it came from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceutical, a supplier of generic drugs, suggests that the woman is not wealthy, probably middle to upper middle class. She's not a smoker and is terrified of the number 5. The reason we know she was mauled by a koala is that she placed them neatly within a group of large, waxy leaves. And we all know how much koalas love shiny things, especially tasty shiny things. These were left as a peace offering before she offed herself. You'll find her body in an alleyway within a half mile of the bottles. She probably stinks a fair bit by now. The smaller bottle is obviously Flouride, which lets us know she was into making her own toothpaste. Fat lot of good it does a dead person... Wow! Drugs DO grow on trees! Canadian druggies, eh? drug buy She was cleaning out her purse and dumped the bottles. The droplets of liquid are mearly condesating water. The top half of the labels are missing because that is where the patient's name and address tend to be as well as the doctor/hospital info. The person to whon these bottles belonged tore this information off for their own privacy. I'm guessing that they noticed the empty bottles in their purse or glovebox and then leaned out of the car or deposited them as they walked past the plant. Alex Druggies. It was a drug deal. They bought the drugs off of a dealer and dumped the bottles where nobody would really care. The labels are torn off so they can't be traced back to the dealer. Ball peen hammer weidling maniacs, inherently unstable, require medication. Hydrocodone: (hye dreo KOE done): A drug, first used by the U.S. military in the 1960's, which produces units of cold, calculating ball peen hammer weilding maniacs. Somebody made a drug cocktail? i don't know just call em and ask I think someone was using them to hold something other than medicence which is why the label was torn off. Drug seeking for resale Most likey found in trash by homeless person etc. Left in bush after they discarded it. Hey, I work for Mallinckrodt, Inc.. Probably some kids doing a cold-water extraction. Damn Girl Scouts! A good time. Someone was all hopped up on goofballs. drug deal Hydrocodone is a narcotic. These pills must have been taken by someone who enjoys drugs, and paid someone for prescription pills.