What the difference between oxycodone and oxycontin?!
Question: what the difference between oxycodone ,5/325 and oxycontin
Answers: what the difference between oxycodone ,5/325 and oxycontin
Oxycodone and Oxycontin are 2 different drugs.
The 5/325 is 5 mg. oxycodone and 325mg Tylenol.
Usually Oxycontin is a 12 hour time release unless it is Oxycontin IR
The reason you hear of people overdosing on Oxycontin is that they crush it up or snort it and the time release effect is all at once. If taken as prescribed it is no different that any other pain medication
Webmd.com is your best source of info on these drug
the name
The active ingredient is the same.
nothing medical wise but the names differant = D
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a powerful pill they call oxycotton
oh, wait, do i have the wrong oxycotin?
Oxycontin is the controlled release version of oxycodone.
they are both miracle drugs
Oxycontin is the Extended (or CONTINuous) release version of Oxycodone.
Oxycontin is used when referring to the time-released formula of Oxycodone. It is the same active ingredient, just in a time-released formula. Oxycodone is immediate release. Usually used in conjunction with Oxycontin for break through pain.
If you get generic meds, the bottles will both say Oxycodone. However, you will be able to tell them apart because of the dose. The smaller dose is the immediate release med.
,oxicotin is time release morphin,the other is like vicadin,5is for tylinal325 is for codien 5% tylinal 325 mls of codein
The active ingredient in Oxycontin is Oxycodone which is the main ingredient in Percocet, Percodan, Tylox, Roxicet, Oxycocet, OxyIR, Endodan, Endocet and probably a few more names
OxyContin (Oxycodone hydrochloride controlled-release) is an opioid analgesic in time-release form. Which means a small amount of the drug is absorbed over a 12 hour period.
Oxycodone has been around for years and is used for moderate to severe pain. It is a Schedule II controlled substance. It works by inhibiting ascending pain pathways in the Central Nervous System, increases the pain threshold, and alters pain perception.
The problem with Oxycodone is after using it for a while the body develops a natural tolerance to the medication, as it does with all opiates. In order to get the same affect the person needs to increase the dose. This does not mean the person is addicted. There is a difference between tolerance and addiction.
The problem that chronic pain sufferers have with opiates is the need to increase the dose to get the same affect. Before Oxycontin came along the patient would increase there dose as tolerance developed and this increased the risk of side effects of the other ingredient in the medication. I got this Information off of the website listed below I picked out the info that i thought you might be interested in but there is much more to read if you would like to visit the site!!
I watched a true life i am addicted to oxycontin last week it aired previously on mtv in 2003! Oxycontin is highly addictive several people died from overdose and one man was injured at work and was prescribed oxycontin for pain relief! He became addicted , he had a very succesful lumber business and a beautiful family and lost it all!
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