What Jack Was Taking

I believe the bottle of his medication said Oxycodone: According to Oxycodone

Oxycodone is a central nervous system depressant. Oxycodone's action appears to work through stimulating the opioid receptors found in the central nervous system that activate responses ranging from analgesia to respiratory depression to euphoria. People who take the drug repeatedly can develop a tolerance or resistance to the drug's effects. Thus, a cancer patient can take a dose of oxycodone on a regular basis that would be fatal in a person never exposed to oxycodone or another opioid. Most individuals who abuse oxycodone seek to gain the euphoric effects, mitigate pain, and avoid withdrawal symptoms associated with oxycodone or heroin abstinence.
Oxycodone has a high abuse potential and is prescribed for moderate to high pain relief associated with injuries, bursitis, dislocation, fractures, neuralgia, arthritis, and lower back and cancer pain. It is also used postoperatively and for pain relief after childbirth. OxyContin, Percocet, Percodan, and Tylox are trade name oxycodone products.

So we know that Jack must have been prescribed this to deal with his minor injuries after the accident. But it does say that this drug can become addictive and provide some of the same effects as morphine and heroin. This state of euphoria may be the only thing that is helping Jack "get back to the state he was in on the island." When he runs out he is faced with the cruel reality around him. Just thought it was a little interesting to see Jack the hero reduce himself to a junky. He needs the highs of wanting to crash on an airplane as well as this high he gets from his medication.

Yea I was thinking that "Future Jack" Reminded me a lot of HOUSE from fox.. I think it was the depressive vicodin addicted way he was acting..

whose got vicodin?

uh.... nevermind... im good. cable? runner? Frog? liz? you got? no...

uh cool. yeah. Jack needed pain relief.

I wonder if Jack will start getting hooked on other drugs in order to cope. Looks like the dark side of Jack might come out!

Was Jack only taking oxy since the bridge-jumping/hero rescue occurance (which somehow reminded me of the story very pertinent to Lost "An Occurance At Owl Creek" ) or had he been taking those pills since 815ers were rescued, or was he only drinking until the hero thing on the bridge?

I dunno, but I took it as he was drinking and taking medication since he got off the island. But the only three refills thing may have been a clue that the pills were more recent. The whole Jack flash forward thingy was just confusing. Sometimes it seemed like maybe less than a year since getting off the island and other times it appeared to have been several years into the future.
It would be interesting to see if there was anything in the flash forward that would show what the date was.

I think that the use of the phone Jack had places the flash-forward either in our present, or a little further forward in time.

I've just finished reading a book about some people who survive a plane crash and the writer makes the point that most of these people, the ones who survive while quite a few others with them are killed, or have to survive on their own for a period of time, can't make the transition back to normal once they are rescued.

It's like they have become addicted to the adrenalin rush they were experiencing in their life-or-death situation and the letdown of being safe is too much for them to accept. They also seem to have built-up a picture in their minds that they were supposed to have survived "for a reason." Going back to being an ordinary, nobody special, can bring on a suicidal depression.

In fact, the author commented that 60% of people who have survived plane crashes kill themselves within a year of the incident.

I think that's what was happening to Jack. Plus, I think he mimicked his father's tendencies toward alchohol (he was drinking alot in the pilot episode and in the flashback to the airport bar where he met Ana Lucia).

Charlie what book are you reading?

Maybe the flashfowards show that the losties lives dont go back to normal, they are competply different to the ones they had..

could it be that jack is mentally deluded and needs drugs to keep it all sort of real to him!