Why did oxycontin not produce heroin like highs in patients?

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Perhaps my understanding is wrong, but watching the documentary ‘ crime of the century’ and one of the experts on screen said oxycodone has effects indistinguishable from Heroin.

When i think of a heroin high i think of people spaced out, or manic before falling asleep.

Why did oxycontin not give users that sort of ‘high’ if its effects are indistinguishable from heroin?

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Simple answer is beacuse heroin is injected straight into the blood stream, and oxy tabs are swallowed (generally). A high concentration of a drug in the bloodstream is what brings about it’s effect. Absorbing drugs from a tablet swallowed creates a situation with a much smaller peak concentration in the blood over a longer period of time, and as such the experienced effects are much less than IV heroin.

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