A friend of mind just died this departed weekend due to an overdose of OxyContin. He was individual 16. I've read a little online almost the symptoms of OxyContin overdose, but I still don't understand exactly what happen to the body when it overdoses and what actually cause death. I'm extremely upset nearly this, I just attended the viewing this afternoon and I merely stood there looking at his body, trying to amount out how he died because he truly looked like zilch could have even kill him. He just looked similar to normal. I be hoping maybe someone that know a little something like OxyContin and drug overdose could help me out. I'd only like to know what kill him. There are a lot of rumors floating around nearly what took place but I'd like to hear it from someone unrelated to this so that I don`t know I can figure out what he go through before he died. Thanks for your time.

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Answers:    I'm sorry to hear in the order of your friend; it's a shame. OxyContin is an opiate drug, a narcotic 'painkiller' related to morphine. The active ingredient within OxyContin is called oxycodone, like peas in a pod stuff found in Percocet. Anyways, resembling all opiate narcotic drugs, it depresses (slows down) your Central Nervous System, which is comprised of your brain and spinal cord. There's a place surrounded by your brain called the medulla oblongata, which controls masses homeostatic functions, including breathing, heart and blood vessel activity, swallowing, digestion, and vomiting. In insertion to affecting other parts of the brain, opiates also affect this part, slowing down breathing and heart rate, which usually kill the victim of an overdose. Basically, your friend go into a coma due to the drug's depressant effects on the brain, and his breathing and heart rate slowed down until it completely stopped. It was more than credible a painless death: he slowly fell into a stupor and drifted away. I'm sure he's within a much better place, so don't worry; basically know that his death be probably a painless one. Take care.

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OxyContin is a medium nervous system depressant. OxyContin's commotion appears to work through stimulating the opioid receptors found in the interior nervous system that produce responses ranging from analgesia to respiratory depression to euphoria. People who steal the drug repeatedly can develop a tolerance or resistance to the drug's effects. Thus, a cancer patient can bear a dose of OxyContin on a regular basis that would be deadly in a party never exposed to OxyContin or another opioid. Most individuals who abuse OxyContin want to gain the euphoric effects, mitigate pain, and avoid subtraction symptoms associated with OxyContin or heroin thrift.

OxyContin is designed so that the oxycodone is slowly released over time, allowing it to be used twice daily. You should never break, chew, or crush the OxyContin tablet since this cause a large amount of oxycodone to be released from the tablet adjectives at once, potentially resulting in a harmful or fatal OxyContin overdose.

Overdose of OxyContin is serious and may require hospitalization. Occasionally, the individual desires to be temporarily hooked to a ventilator to help him breathe until the OxyContin wear off. Most those who are 'hooked' on this drug need professional sustain to stop using it. If you or someone you care for is abuse OxyContin, please contact us for help.

Indications of an OxyContin overdose:

* slow breathing (respiratory depression)
* seizure
* dizziness
* weakness
* loss of consciousness
* coma
* confusion
* tiredness
* cold and clammy skin
* small pupils
* reduced perception
* nausea
* vomiting
* clouding of mental functions

Do NOT screw with oxycontin. IT WILL KILL YOU.

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