Prescription opioid abusers prefer to get high on oxycodone and hydrocodone

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Prescription opioid abuse has reached epidemic levels in the past 15 years. Scientists investigating why people favor one drug over another have found that oxycodone and hydrocodone are the drugs of choice for 75 percent of opioid-dependent individuals. Their results show that oxycodone was the most popular drug overall because of the quality of the high. Nonetheless, hydrocodone remains one of the most popular primary drugs, even though it has lower euphoric qualities.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news