What is usually in oxycodone and hydrocodone?

Question by Coolchikk: What is usually in oxycodone and hydrocodone?
Why is it so addictive

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Answer by SUSAN P
horrible addiction and possibly death!

Answer by Kable Devidus
Hydrocodone IS hydrocodone, that’s the chemical that is addictive. It’s what it does to you that causes the addiction. Hydrocodone is usually known as vicodin or norco.
Oxycodone is usually known as percocet.

Now, oxycodone is FAR more addictive than hydrocodone. But basically they mask pain by altering the pain receptors in the brain and acting on things like seratonin receptors, meaning they produce intense feelings of euphoria, they also give a general feeling of being *high* and or relaxed, chilled out.

But opiates in general, not just oxycodone and hydrocodone, are the most addictive substances out there. Heroin is in that family. Opiates have the worst withdrawals as well, when you don’t have the chemical you’ve been taking, your body will begin what is called withdrawals, meaning that it needs the chemical, or it desperately wants that chemical. I’ve been under pain management for a few months now, and I’ve had oxycodone withdrawals once, they ALMOST hurt worse than my injury, and usually, for most people, it WILL hurt worse than the original injury you are taking it for. Your whole body aches, you can’t stop throwing up, you can’t sleep, you can’t eat, and you can’t make the pain go away. Its terrible. After consistent pain killer use, you can also develop something called hyperalgaesia, with is hypersensitivity to pain. Basically, your brain interprets the painkillers, as killer pain. It gets the wiring all mixed up. And so then people end up increasing their dosage because they think their injury has gotten worse, thus making you more and more addicted. And over time you have to keep increasing your dosage once the hyperalgaesia sets in. Its a vicious circle, as you can see.

Whatever you do, DO NOT abuse these. Go to Google, type in “Opiate addiction stories”, and behold Hell. I’m serious. Do not. I hate taking them even when I’m in pain, but for me its like “What else do I do?”. I get massages and acupuncture weekly to try and make it so I can take the painkillers less and less. But other than that it’s pretty shitty. I’m what they call legally addicted, I have no choice but to be addicted, either that or spend my time in extreme pain, which as most people know leads to extreme depression among other things.

Another thing, opiates kill more people annualy than meth and cocaine combined. Because people abuse them, if you have a narcotic being prescribed to you for pain, please use it as prescribed, it won’t kill you nearly as fast that way. That, and when people kill themselves or get caught selling these prescribed painkillers, they ruin it for people who are in pain. Its extremely hard these days to get a doctor that understands and will prescribe what you need. That’s because of people who abuse it.

People who abuse them, are the reason people have to spend their days in extreme agony, all day long. Literally leading to a lot of them wishing they were dead, and some of them acting upon that feeling.

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