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Because it's not morphine. Where hydrocodone is a synthetic equivalent to the natural opiate codeine, oxycodone is a synthetic opiate roughly as strong as the n
by S_A_P 11y ago
Because it's not morphine. Where hydrocodone is a synthetic equivalent to the natural opiate codeine, oxycodone is a synthetic opiate roughly as strong as the natural opiate morphine. There are many different synthetic opiates of various strengths but oxycodone is not "heroin" or "morphine."
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- 6stringmerc 11y agoI follow you. The formulations are indeed areas of distinction. As I'm not educated beyond layman's terms, do they work on different receptors?
- pygy_ 11y agoNo, they all target the mu opioid receptor. I don't know if they all bind the same site of said receptors, though.