I explain and describe what Oxycodone is and I dive deep into how the opioid crisis all started. The opioid epidemic has killed over half a million people in total.
What’s up everyone my name is uh lowkey fish and in this video i’m gonna explain everything you need to know about oxycodone which is the main ingredient in percocet oxycontin oxycodone and explain the effects duration dangers my own experiences and much more plus i’m gonna break down why and how profit-driven companies
And big pharma created the opioid epidemic crisis which is in total killed over half a million people so if you like this content please consider subscribing so what is oxycodone oxycodone is used to treat severe pain and is one of the most commonly used opioids in medical settings the opiate is derived from
Poppy plants and is mainly used to treat serious pain in people such as cancer patients chronic pain sufferers or people recovering from surgery it provides relaxing and pain relieving effects by binding the nerve receptors in the brain and blocking the pain signals obviously the main benefit is pain relief but other
Positive effects include euphoria mood lift relaxation anxiety relief and music enhancement oxycodone is intended as a safer alternative to morphine and comes in many different forms as well percocet is a combination of oxycodone and acetaminophen also known as tylenol oxycotin is an extended release
Form that releases oxycodone into the bloodstream throughout the day the onset is about 30 minutes and lasts roughly 8 to 12 hours peroxycodone is the immediate release tablets that are released in the bloodstream right away the onset is 10 to 30 minutes lasting roughly four to six hours the negative side effects of
These drugs include loss of appetite dry mouth dizziness headaches more dangerous when combined with alcohol or benzodiazepines which greatly increase the risk of overdosing and possibly dying if someone does overdose a shot of narcan will counter the effects of the overdose and save them from dying almost
Instantaneously long-term usage of oxycodone can result in physical dependence and cause insomnia excessive sweating anxiety restlessness and muscle aches this is why oxycodone can be extremely addictive and make people physically dependent on it to live this now brings me to the next part of the video where we are going
To break down the entirety of the opioid crisis let’s start off with this how do people become addicted to opioids in the first place usually it starts with some sort of injury which leads to a doctor prescribing opioids so let’s say an athlete plays football and tears his acl on a play the doctor then prescribes
Him oxycodone to help aid his knee pain so okay the athlete starts taking these opioids during his recovery to alleviate his pain during this time he starts to really like the way these pills make him feel and develops a dependence on taking up so the doctor cuts off his prescription although at this point the
Athlete is physically dependent on taking these opioids but he can’t get any more because the doctor cut him off so now he has to resort to buying them on the black market street dealers but after a while he starts are expensive so instead of buying pills off the street he then switches over to heroin due
To the fact that it’s significantly cheaper he starts off with just snorting heroin but after a while he starts to build a tolerance so in order to combat his tolerance he instead changes to injecting heroin into his veins with a needle fast forward to a week later he ends up buying heroin that’s laced with fentanyl
And when he there you have it the timeline and process of someone becoming an opioid addict in this case you have someone who started off as an athlete who just unfortunately got injured during a game he went from taking opioids prescribed for his pain to shooting up heroin on the streets and it can happen
To anyone too anyone who’s prescribed opioids can end up like this they become dependent on them and then they are cut off by their doctors and because they can’t get them anywhere else they have to resolve to the black market and once you resolve to that you never know what batch could have fentanyl in it and kill
You whether it be oxycodone heroin or whatever this all really started in the 90s when profit-driven companies and big farmers such as purdue marketed oxycodone by overstating their efficacy and downplaying the much less addictive than originally thought and they would even send sales reps to aggressively
Market much stronger doses to doctors this led to opioids becoming overprescribed causing many people to become dependent and addicted to them and they’re still overprescribing them to this day long story short i’ve had a handful of back surgeries in the past few years and just from those three surgeries i was given
Hundreds of pills for three surgeries luckily i have a decent mindset and never got addicted but that’s not the same story for everyone i could have ended up like that football player or anyone else like i said i was given hundreds of pills the opioid epidemic is the deadliest drug crisis in american history
About the same amount of deaths from car crashes and gunshot wounds essentially meaning that these drugs kill more people than actual violent events as stated before these street dealers are cutting it with fentanyl which is a hundred times stronger a few tiny specks of it and as time goes on more and more stronger
Drugs are being developed and cut into these opioids as well recently one that’s come out is called car fentanyl which is a hundred times more potent than regular fentanyl could take out an entire city with just one gram please remember to smash that like button and subscribe for more good vibes in the future
And i’d love to make you part of the journey drug that is overdose potential click this video to learn all about ghb which is a famous party drug used by people like college students concert goers and many more my name is lowkey fish and i’ll catch you on the next one peace out
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Opioid Crisis & 𝗢𝗫𝗬𝗖𝗢𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗘 Explained! (Percocet, Oxycontin, Roxicodone) By Lowkey Fish 🐠
