umm you dont just get addicted like that.. It takes prolonged use... I've done oxy like 7 or so times, and im not addicted at all. If you're smart and you use in moderation it's fine.
Ive taken more oxycontin than most of this forum,along with every other heavy narcotic on the market ranging from morphine to oxycontin,for over a decade & you are not speaking the truth at all.
If i wish i can get 90 80 mg oxycontin each month from my pain management doctor for my back,i use them when the pain becomes unbearable,after i take one 80 mg all my pain is gone,its a feeling a person who sufferes cronic pain can become adicted to,being pain free that is, not being high.
With that being said i go in spurts where i can barely walk so i break down & take an oxy,after being pain free i take another one when i need it,after only 2 days in a row taking oxycontin simply taking one 80 mg pill dont take the pain away as good so i need to take two on the 3rd day,if i take two on the 3rd day that works for two more days,after a week on oxy i need to take 3 pills a day as the doctor directed to put my pain at the same level as day one,the tolerance build up with oxycontin is very fast infact much faster than any other narcotic ive ever used & ive used all of them.
Here's where the danger lies,even with my situation & im a 100% legal user of this medication,if i take oxy for any more than one day simply taking the medication a 2nd day builds my tolerance,it also makes me feel like total shit when i come off the medication,the feeling of comming off oxy is terrible,you get cold then hot,sick stomache,the shits,cant sleep,cant think straight ect.
The feeling is so terrible it makes a user want to take it again just so they dont feel like hell,exactly like having the worst hangover of your life from being whiskey drunk,if you start drinking again the sick feeling subsides as the liquor/drug re enters the system.
If your going to take that shit the risk of addiction is great & even faster than heroin because of its potency & how pure it is,it took me the better part of an entire year to learn how to use my oxycontin properly,i now will take one pill & no matter how bad the pain gets i refuse to take another pill for atleast 3 days,in the off days i take the vicoden that is also prescribed from pain management,even though i hurt like hell my body need to cleanse itself of the heavy narcotic or im defeating the purpose of the medicine.
Whoever mentioned that the abusers of this narcotic are making it hard for people whe need the medicine was 100% correct,i use 2 pharmicies for my meds & my wifes meds,my wifes pharmacy has flat out stopped odering oxycontin & flat out refuses to fill any prescription for the drug,their explaination to me was that there are soo many people forging prescriptions that they cant possibly catch all the forgeries,this puts them at serious risk of comming under the scrutiny of the dea,its easier for them to stop carring the product than it is to catch the forgeries.