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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Oxy was designed to be slow release, so it built up more slowly in the body. It was one of their main marketing tactics in selling the idea that it wasn’t addictive, because they said it you couldn’t get the same high feel so people wouldn’t get addicted. Obviously it was bullshit and they knew it.

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