One of the most dangerous prescription painkillers is Oxycodone. Oxycodone is a drug available by prescription that is an opiate. It acts as a depressant of the central nervous system. It is a narcotic, in the same family as morphine and Vicodin and is often prescribed as a pain killer to treat moderate to severe pain like that caused by back and neck pain, fractures, arthritis, and other ailments.
Oxycodone has a number of different brand names brand names as OxyContin, Percocet, and Percodan. These are opiates and very easily susceptible to abuse and is highly addictive. Drug companies have recently settled a court case where they grossly understated the addictive nature of the drug to doctors and the public. When taken repeatedly, over time, one can develop tolerance to the drug. When this happens the same amount of drug will have less effect or you need to take more and more to have an effect.
Those who abuse oxycodone may either take it in its original pill form or crush it into a powder to be injected or snorted. Because the drug is meant to act as a time-released pain reliever, when crushed or injected, users short circuit the time release effect of the drug. It then causes feelings of euphoria and a very intense high. This is how abusers experience an oxycodone overdose, due to the large amount of the substance being released into their system at once, rather than slowly released over time in the time released pill form.
An unfortunate aspect of all prescription painkillers is that they often start out as having a medically viable use and are prescribed by doctors. Over time tolerance builds and the patient ends up increasing quantity and frequency of use.
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I do agree that this is the most dangerous drug. My dr had put me on it because I had 2nd degree burns on my leg for the pain and my mom limited my dose so much…I think only the first day was the day that I had the full dose and then my mom started to limit what she gave me and how often she gave it to me. Plus I didn’t like the way it made me feel whatsoever. I just felt weird.
Recovering from hydrocodone addiction can be difficult because hydrocodone creates both a mental and a physical addiction. In the person suffering from hydrocodone addiction, the hydrocodone stimulates opiate receptors in the brain. For the person with a hydrocodone addiction, this results in feeling extreme pleasure.
A feeling of relaxation and satisfaction that can last for many hours then follows the initial high created by oxyocodone in the person with a oxyocodone addiction. Along with the feeling of relaxation, the respiratory system is affected causing a decrease in the rate of breathing. This slow down in the person with the addiction can be fatal.
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Thank you so much for your outlook, I totally agree with you. It is great to see a fresh outlook on this and I look forward to more.