Drug Rehab Warns Public on Addictive OxyContin Prescription Medications.

Oxycontin is an opioid analgesic, or narcotic. It comes in doses of 10, 20, 40, 60, and 80mg. The manufacturer is no longer shipping the 160mg doses because too many people have overdosed on them and died.

Oxycontin is a 12 hour time release medication. Normally pain medication is taken every three to four hours. Oxycontin abusers dissolve the time release coating. That means when they take it, they get a huge euphoric rush, much like the rush a person would get if they took heroin. Because it basically is synthetic heroin.

The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab in Georgia, as a public service, is warning parents about the dangers of prescription medications that can be abused by teenagers.

“Many people are not aware of the dangers of prescription drugs,” states Mary Rieser, Executive Director in The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab in Georgia. “While most medications are prescribed to handle a specific ailment, these same medications can be abused by teens. Oxycontin is a highly addictive pain reliever that is being abused by thousands.

Oxycontin addiction is very expensive.

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