A pretty expensive drug problem if you ask me.
Any type of prescription medications, including OxyContin, can cause serious and dangerous interactions with other drugs, alcohol or chemicals in the body. This fact doesn't seem to grad many users attention because a lot of the times people will do a pill or two and drink alcohol with them to intensify the affect. Others will do a pill and either a joint or two or do some other type of painkiller along with the OxyContin. These examples of abusing painkillers are dangerous and deathly, but the most potent combination of all is one pill of OxyContin in one night, and the next thing you know, it was the first time to do a pill and the last because you or your friend are now dead.
The risks associated with doing pain pills such as OxyContin can be very pain full and make a person miserable in the process. Common side effects include: constipation, nausea, sedation, dizziness, vomiting, headache, dry mouth, sweating, and weakness. The most serious and lethal risk with abusing OxyContin is respiratory depression and failure, which can very possibly lead to a person's death. .
Oxy abusers remove the sustained time-release coating to get a rush of euphoria similar to heroin. There are many ways to get this high, euphoria feeling. Some users simply chew the tablets or others crush the tablets, separate the powder into lines just like people do with cocaine, and snort the lines of OxyConitin up their nose. After some time of snorting pills the inside of a persons nose practically looks just like a raw hamburger. Nice and attractive, right? Some pill users are starting to go as far as boiling the powder down to liquid and shooting or injecting themselves with it by a needle just like heroin users do. People have even become sneaky with where they inject the needle. Instead of shooting themselves up in the arm, where the needle tracks will be seen be everyone, they have began to inject the needle under their tongue and between their toes! .
