What do doctors prescribe Oxycontin for?
Ibuprofen is the same thing as Motrin ans Advil & are sold without prescription for mild to moderate pain. People think because they can get them over the counter they are safe, & often will take it over the safe dose or for prolong time. I had one patient in ICU who was having blood transfusions, for he took over the dose & had gastrointestinal bleeding, big time. Fortunately be developed severe stomach pain & went to the ER in time . He recovered. Oxycontin is long acting oxycodone, similar to morphine (a little lower in the pain pill grouping), and is taken every 12 hours to maintain pain control .Morphine (and fentanyl) are the big boys, used for severe pain control. It can come either in a long acting dose,( also every 12 hours) and & in immediate acting form. Both oxycodone & morphine are control drugs and need to be signed for in health care facilities & hospitals.
We definitely need to take a serious look at it. I don't know if it's the answer but we've got to look at alternatives. Whatever we are currently doing in America isn't working. Our drug laws are creating havoc and supporting inner city gangs, promoting murder and mayhem with our urban youth, leading to incarceration and felony records, and are the source of major crime in Mexico.Legalizing drugs is a scary concept for Americans.Naive people believe that if something's illegal, people won't do it any more. That clearly isn't true. Others think that if you make it illegal, the price will rise and fewer people will take the drug. But for some people the price isn't a factor.Here's an interesting interview with a Harvard economist on this topic.Harvard Economist: Legalizing Drugs Suits Ideal of American Freedom - SPIEGEL ONLINEAmerica's "War on Drugs" isn't effective. Smart Americans should look for a better way.Uruguay is experimenting with the legalization of pot for personal use.Mark A. R. Kleiman, a professor of public policy at UCLA and the co-author of Legalizing Marijuana: What Everyone Needs to Know, believes the initial outcome will be mostly positive."The immediate consequences are likely to be decreased crime, decreased arrests, decreased illicit activity, increased state revenue -- and increased drug abuse," he says.Kleiman says the crucial factor will be the market price for cannabis. If it's too low, he says, it might compel more people to use, and if it's too high, it may create a black market. The Uruguayan government will need to decide "whether the sales process is designed to maximize sales or protect public health," says Kleiman.Uruguay's pot legalization could be 'tipping point' in war on drugs
Why not? My wife has DID and other mental illnesses. She is currently prescribed OxyContin to help curb back and leg pains until she can get a spinal stimulator implant. And, she will probably need them for a while after the surgery. Then, she plans to be off them.Because, of her DID, and not knowing for sure if her different identities might misuse the narcotics, I am the one who keeps and distributes the OxyContin.
Simply, they are used to treat pain. Although there are some major differences between the two. Vicodin is generally prescribed for short-term acute pain such as a sprained or broken bone. Wheras OxyContin is a sustained release drug, it's given to those who have chronic pain and need a drug that will remain in their bodies for a longer length of time. The OxyContin pills have been changed, they are made to disallow crushing them, making abusing them next to impossible. That's why you don't hear much about pharmacies being robbed of their OxyContin much any more. They needed to change the formula of that drug to prevent abuse and it has worked!
Oxycontin is an opiate which is classed as a depressant, as well as covering physical pain opiates can cover emotional pain. It is NOT a treatment for depression and it sounds like you are self medicating. Have you experienced emotional distress or trauma or are you bothered by emotional distress (mental illness etc.) ?If you have been taking this for a while you are opiate dependant and not taking it will make you feel bad, check out COWS (Opiate Withdrawel Scale) for examples of the side effects of opiate dependence, if these are what you think means you are depressed you are not, you are simply addicted (simply he says :/ ).Depression is linked to the serotegonic pathways in the brain most commonly and treated with anti-depressants (SSRI's) though there is growing evidence that other neurotransmitters impact on emotianal health/depression for example the recent interest in Ketamine as a treatment for depression.Without further details of how you started taking oxy's and why it is difficult to speculate acurately.How do you know you are depressed? have you had any treatment for depression? have you had a psychiatric assessment, could you have PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)?Whatever the underlying issue opiate dependence will complicate your lifestyle and any possible treatment and I would recomend an assessment by a substance misuse service who should check into your mental and physical health as a matter of course.Be aware that ongoing opiate use leads to tolerance and a need for higher doses to achieve the same effects, there is also the risk of overdose particuarily if mixed with other depressants such as alcohol, benzodiazipenes or GBL/GHB.Good luck
Oxycontin (a member of the opioid family, a family of medications that have potential for addition and potential lethal side effects if taking more than prescribed) is a second tier treatment for chronic (longer than 3 months) moderate to severe pain.Second tier treatments are prescribed after Non steroid anti-inflamatories, and other treatments such as TENS (Trascutaneous Electical Nerve Stimulations), psychological treatments and nerves blocking have been tried and failed.Usually you might need to visit a Pain Specialist doc in order to get a script for the medication and for monitoring over time.
What ways can you take OxyContin to get high?
OxyContin abusers either crush the tablet and ingest or snort it or they dilute it in water and inject it. Crushing or diluting the tablet disarms the timed-release action of the medication, but crushing OxyContin in this way can give the user a potentially fatal dose. Oxycontin is the time-release form of oxycodone, usually prescribed for chronic and severe pain. Because it contains a larger amount of oxycodone, it has become one of the most abused prescription drugs in the United States. Under prescribed dosage, OxyContin is an effective pain reliever, but when crushed and snorted or injected, the drug produces a quick and powerful "high" that some abusers compare to the feeling they get when doing heroin. The NIDA reports that in some areas of the country, OxyContin abuse rates are actually higher than heroin abuse. Because OxyContin, like heroin and other opioids, is a central nervous system depressant, and overdose can cause respiratory failure and death. Oxycodone, the opioid that OxyContin is derived from, was developed in Germany in 1916. It was designed to be a better medication than other opioids, such as heroin, codeine, and even morphine. In the years just before it was created, people were becoming addicted to heroin or experiencing serious side effects from abuse. At that time, no one thought that this new drug would become one of the most widely used and abused prescription drugs of all time. Oxycodone first came to the U.S. in 1939, but it wasn’t until Purdue Pharma began manufacturing OxyContin in the United States in 1996 that it became widely used. OxyContin has had its ups and downs in the market of prescription drugs, and by 2001 it was the best selling narcotic pain reliever in the country. Also around this time is when OxyContin began to be abused by those wanting a way to get high. Because the drug was so widely available, those with extra pills from a prescription found they could sell the drug for a big profit. This was the beginning of the prescription drug abuse that is such a problem today.