I Have Been Prescribed Endone… ?

Question by He moonwalked on my <3: I have been prescribed Endone... ?
for chronic pain in my jaw from a botched tooth extraction. I have been reading a bit about Endone online, but I am not very familiar with drugs or terminology.
It says online its an “opiate” and “narcotic”… does this mean its like Heroin or Valium or Morphine????

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Answer by wbaker777
Another question that should more properly be addressed by your Doctor…….Not in YA Answers. Endone is Oxycodone Hydrochloride…..Yes it is a Narcotic of the Opiate family and yes it has been known to be habit forming.

Answer by Oscar C
Endone or oxycodone is a regulated drug.

Oxycodone is an opioid analgesic medication synthesized from opium-derived thebaine. It was developed in 1916 in Germany, as one of several new semi-synthetic opioids with several benefits over the older traditional opiates and opioids; morphine, diacetylmorphine (heroin) and codeine. It was introduced to the pharmaceutical market as Eukodal or Eucodal and Dinarkon. Its chemical name is derived from codeine – the chemical structures are very similar, differing only in that the hydroxyl group of codeine has been oxidized to a carbonyl group (as in ketones), hence the “-one” suffix, the 7,8-dihydro-feature (codeine has a double-bond between those two carbons), and the hydroxyl group at carbon-14 (codeine has just a hydrogen in its place), hence oxycodone.

It an opiate derivative and thus is regulated because if misused it could lead to drug addiction.

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