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OxyContin user guilty of murder TAZEWELL--Ground up in a spoon, mixed with water and drawn into a needle, one OxyContin ...
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In some OxyContin merely suppresses pain, in others respiration can be seriously impaired, or a feeling of euphoria may occur.
An added abuse of prescription oxycodone is passed on to chronic pain sufferers who have experienced marked relief from the drug. As a consequence of extremely tight controls in some areas physicians have hesitated prescribing it to patients.
OxyContin has no limit to its effectiveness. Other analgesics, like aspirin or acetaminophen, have a threshold to their effectiveness.
OxyContin addiction is serious and is very difficult to overcome through out-patient or home treatment.

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Oxycontin Effects

OxyContin is a central nervous system depressant that relieves pain and
induces sleep. It produces a dreamlike state of warmth and well-being.
It may also cause constricted pupils, nausea, and respiratory
depression, which in its extremes can result in death.
OxyContin activates brain regions that produce euphoric sensations as
well as physical dependence. OxyContin is notorious for the ability to
produce both psychological and physical addiction. Its addictiveness is
characterized by persistent craving for the drug, tolerance (the need
for larger and larger doses to get the same results), and painful and
dangerous withdrawal.
Once OxyContin enters the body; it works by stimulating certain opioid
receptors that are located throughout the central nervous system, in the
brain and along the spinal cord. When OxyContin binds to the opioid
receptor a variety of physiologic responses can occur ranging from pain
relief, slowed breathing, to euphoria. Since OxyContin is similar to
heroin its effects are comparable.
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