oxycontin
Speech parts
1. oxycontin - Noun
2. Oxycontin - Proper noun
Meaning
OxyContin (plural OxyContins)
(pharmacology) A brand name for a controlled-release form of oxycodone, a synthetic analgesic drug.
oxycontin (uncountable)
Alternative form of OxyContin.
Synonyms
Examples
Rush Limbaugh, who has made a career preaching that anybody who does drugs has got to go right to jail -- do not pass go, no questions asked, right to jail -- gets caught doing thirty oxycontin a day. Thirty oxycontin?! Do you have any idea how high that is?! I don't, and I've been pretty high!
My parents approached me to go to rehab... So I ran away. I just took off running. I went to a friend's house and I went pretty buck wild. I was snorting Demerol, OxyContin. I don't really remember much.
There's a lot of things that were going on. I'd run out of OxyContin, I was doing a lot of Dilaudid. Dilaudid is like a millimeter down from OxyContin. I was doing a lot of those, and life just got super stressful for me.
Rush Limbaugh, who has made a career preaching that anybody who does drugs has got to go right to jail -- do not pass go, no questions asked, right to jail -- gets caught doing thirty oxycontin a day.
Advise female patients that OXYCONTIN can cause fetal harm and to inform the prescriber if they are pregnant or plan to become pregnant.
Adults are not the only ones abusing forms of oxycodone like OxyContin.