Does anyone on this board have experience taking the drug oxycodone?(icant spell)oxies for short. (OC)
Does anyone on this board have experience taking the drug oxycodone?(icant spell)oxies for short. (OC)
oxycodone
SYLLABICATION: ox·y·co·done
PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: k s -k d n KEY
NOUN: A narcotic alkaloid, C18H21NO4, related to codeine, used as an analgesic and a sedative chiefly in the form of its hydrochloride salt.
ETYMOLOGY: (hydr)oxy + cod(eine) + –one.
Yes,
Alegra what do you need to know about this drug ? I can say it is one of the top drugs highly used for Oncology patients at the hospital i work. Great for pain, and highly addictive.
Pamela
my friend's husband is addicted to these and it's ruining their marriage. He lost his job and now he's in detox out-of-state while she is left carrying all their bills. This is his second time in detox since he got in a car accident a year ago (whhen he was prescribed them and got addicted).
BAD NEWS





It is my understanding that these pills are similar to morphine or herion.
In what way are they addictive?
I don't understand the question. They cause you to want more so that you can't function properly if you don't have them.....addiction!
But they scare me....more than some of the illegal drugs. I wouldn't touch this stuff and if I had to because of a doctor, I'd be very careful.
I wouldn't touch them. They are very highly addictive. I took a "Drugs and Society" sociology class at school and we did discuss this particular drug at one point. My professor was acquainted with a doctor who had done some research when these pills were first being introduced. Some doctors thought they wouldn't be very addictive since there are no extreme high's and low's experienced on the drug. Instead it has a slower release so it produces a medium high for a longer period of time. That's a pretty pathetic reason and, as my professor said, the actual reason why people can become so easily addicted.
My cousin's husband was prescribed these for quite some time due to an injury he sustained at work. He then became addicted to them. It was ruining their family and, even though he was truly trying to get off them, he couldn't. They actually had to separate for a while. They're back together now and he's going to all sorts of meetings, but still struggling. :-/
All I can say is stay away. The only way I would take them is if I were trying to dull the pain of some fatal disease (e.g., cancer). I would not take them for a simple injury and, most certainly, not take them as a recreational drug as some choose to.
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They are a narcotic, these class of drugs are addictive to many! And yes close to morphine, as it is used mainly for major pain, as is morphine, although, the general makeup of the drug is different, it behaves the same in the body. As does Oxycontin. Close relatives. Closer makeup as Oxycontin.
The body wants more of these, it becomes accustomed to having this drug in the body on a consistant basis. Usually these drugs are for terminally ill patients. Some doctors still give them for say....Kidney stones or arthritis for example.
or worse yet you will end up in the grave like one of my friends did. he went to sleep and never woke up. it causes you to be so "relaxed" your lungs dont work anymore. maybe thats not the best way to describe it but i know they are bad news. the most abused drug these days. VERY DANGEROUS
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Yeah Pamela - the correct name of the drug I was asking about is oxycontin. (not oxycodone)my mistake! Im just wondering how your body becomes addicted to them. Is it physical or emotional? Velvet - How many did your friend take that caused him to OD? I have a friend who suppossedly chews 240mg of this at one time.
it is a physical addiciton like herion ,same family. you have to take them to feel "normal" again after you are addicted. you dont really get high anymore.
i dont know how many my friend took .that really isnt the point and i will say your friend is treading dangerous ground with that high of a dosage. i cant say enough about the dangers of this drug. it is a real problem here in florida and everywhere i suspect. there were more deaths in florida from oxy's then herion last year. STEER CLEAR.
As quoted by Luckyone:
I asked directions from a genie in a bottle of jim beam and she lied to me.
Methodus saved my life!





You were in fact correct with oxycodone, for they are much the same thing. Oxycontin is simply the brand name of a time-release form of oxycodone.Yeah Pamela - the correct name of the drug I was asking about is oxycontin. (not oxycodone)my mistake! Im just wondering how your body becomes addicted to them. Is it physical or emotional? Velvet - How many did your friend take that caused him to OD? I have a friend who suppossedly chews 240mg of this at one time.
http://www.streetdrugs.org/oxycodone.htm
As Pam mentioned, the drug is meant for use by chronic pain sufferers and terminally ill cancer patients, but yes it has a very high addiction potential, and has reaked havoc in several parts of the country, particularly in the Appalachian region, hence its slang name, "hillbilly heroin". There are actually people who will shop around from doctor to doctor until they find one who will prescribe OC for them for their particular ailment, whether real or imagined.
The OC pills are meant to be swallowed whole, but addicts will often chew them (like your friend), or crush them into powder and snort it, or dissolve the powder in water and inject the solution so the drug is absorbed quicker.
Seriously nasty stuff. Stay away from it.![]()
Former SCJ now in rehab.
Aj- been awhiile but from memory your body becomes chemically dependent as the drug “turns on” the receptors in your nervous system that are normally sensitive to your natural endorphin release. Picture a heroin addict and how euphoric they are similar on a much larger scale to a runners high. Oxycotin is very strong and controlled (c2), only thing I can thing of stronger that is legal is morphine and metadone. All are opiates which are the most addictive things on earth, which sucks because you end up upping your dosage b/c of tolerance and just fall asleep.

I took one once to see what the hype was about, it seemed liek the whole town I lived in was addicted to them(kenai alaska) and I hated it, the high was great for 45 minutes but I came down for 3 days and it was the worst experiance ever and I realized that people who take thme must be severly disturbed, Ia m one of those try everything once kind of people, and I am glad I tried it and nver would want to do it again

There was some sort 60 mins special I saw on OC. They legalized the drug bc it can be very beneficial for patients who would otherwise be bedridden or incapacitated by pain. Like the above poster said they come with a controlled release coating but many addicts will cut the coating to get the full and immediate high and are extremely addictive and are slowly doing to small towns and suburbs what crack did to urban environments.





known as "Hillbilly Heroin" in some circles. Very strong, very addictive stuff. In my area there have been more than a few cases of break-ins at retirement homes etc. to steal these pills from old people who have prescriptions for them and then resell the pills on the street.



Wow - I guess I should consider myself lucky, as I have been prescribed these before, and didn't even come close to being addicted - in fact I hated them! I was disoriented, vomiting, no fun at all. Helped the pain, but the side effects were just as bad. I seem to have no tolerance to narcotics though, all this stuff makes me so sick - morphene, demerol, even with double doses of gravol I couldn't even sit up without getting sick. I am facing another surgery soon and am dreading it - there's just nothing I can take for pain that doesn't make me sick.





Here is a cut and paste of a news story from Associated Press I saw today about OC's:
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (July 9) - A mother has been charged with trying to sell her toddler son for $500 so she could buy a stash of the addictive painkiller OxyContin.
Brianna Marie Burns, 23, could get up to five years in prison if convicted.
Burns' grandmother contacted authorities after Burns allegedly offered to sell her the 2-year-old child. An undercover officer wired the grandmother and provided her with $500 for the exchange, according to police documents.
Burns was arrested Monday after receiving the money and signing custody of the child over to her grandmother. She was being held on $102,500 bond.
Child Protective Services has placed the child with another family member.
OxyContin is a prescription painkiller often given to cancer patients. If chewed, snorted or injected, it produces a quick and potentially lethal high. The drug has been linked to more than 100 deaths.
The sale of a child was a misdemeanor in West Virginia until 1994, one year after a Charleston woman was convicted of trying to sell her 1-month-old baby to undercover officers for $1,400 so she could buy a mobile home. That led the state to change the law, making the crime a felony.
Is it just me or could it be that there is something much more fundamentally screwy about someone selling their kid for $500 than a painkiller problem? I think there is a chicken and the egg issue here. Makes good copy, though. I noticed that the article, after highlighting the dangers of the pills mentioned that another mother did the same thing to buy a trailer (which are statistically non-addictive, lol). Not very good jounalism... having a Hearst flashback.
Of course, my personal opinion of OCs is that it takes an act of will to really get addicted recreationally to the things. Geez, between the nausea, the potential for a day after migraine, the difficulty seeing out of both eyes at once. I think... and maybe I just don't have the body chemistry to enjoy it or something... that a person is just looking for *anything* to fall off the deep end; and with all the hype, it is the dangerous rush du jour.
I personally wonder how many people would never have sought them out if it weren't for a the sensationalism. So now, chronic pain patients who actually need the things are having trouble getting them. But hey, it sells papers and increases viewer ratings.
Sorry, I've been holding my tongue but I have a pet peeve with drug sensationalism and the impact it has for chronic pain and terminally ill patients.
I'm stopping now![]()
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i have tried this drug... my friend gave them to me and i thought they were safer than any illegal drug... she showed me how to snort them and i regret it... whenever i see one nowadays i feel the urge to spend 100s of dollars on them... and after i am done with the drug my body aches for days and i get very moody and angry... mad that i cannot find any more... i wish i had never found out what oxy felt like... dont try it.

and just to let you ppl know... i have never liked any other drug... i dont even drink anymore... always hated weed, even tried coke (big mistake... but i was young and hated it anyway)... thats how dangerous these painkillers are... if your personality is prone to their addiction the wanting for them never fully goes away.



Ara, ask your doctor to try Compazine the next time you have to take narcotics. it's another anti-puke medication that works very well for most people. they give this stuff to pregnant women that are hospitalized with hyper-emesis (constant/continual violent barfing in the first trimester). it can be injected for those people that can't even keep a pill down long enough for it to work.Wow - I guess I should consider myself lucky, as I have been prescribed these before, and didn't even come close to being addicted - in fact I hated them! I was disoriented, vomiting, no fun at all. Helped the pain, but the side effects were just as bad. I seem to have no tolerance to narcotics though, all this stuff makes me so sick - morphene, demerol, even with double doses of gravol I couldn't even sit up without getting sick. I am facing another surgery soon and am dreading it - there's just nothing I can take for pain that doesn't make me sick.
i always have to take anti-puke pills if i ever need to take any kind of narcotic, too.
OC is BAD stuff! About a year ago, I went to a funeral for a boy I knew from the time he was born who OD'd on Oyxcontin. He was 21. Had a beautiful girlfriend and came from a well-to-do family...his dad was even one of those big-time personal injury attorneys you see with ads on TV. None of that saved him. He died in his sleep at a friend's house.
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