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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Oxycodone and heroin are different drugs. Just because they share a similar mechanism of action, it does not follow that they produce identical results.
Variations may depend on the rate at which a drug interacts with opiate receptors, the degree to which it saturates them, and the rate at which the body metabolizes the drug to free up opiate receptors.
This variability is the reason so many different opiate drugs exist.
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