Kristen Baldino, left, and Marie Steding, right, walk near the Myrtle Beach sign in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Monday, Nov. 20, 2006. During the seven-year period from 1997 to 2005 reflected in Drug Enforcement Agency figures, oxycodone distribution increased 800 percent in the area of Myrtle Beach, a sprawling community of strip malls, hotels and bars perched along a 60-mile strip of sand on the Atlantic Ocean. (AP Photo/Willis Glassgow)