Hey, all, welcome back to the real-life pharmacology podcast. I'm your host, pharmacist, Eric Christensen.

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All right, so the drug of the day today is oxycodone, which I have not covered yet, which is kind of

surprising to me as I was looking through my list.

Brand name of this medication, the extended release product is Oxycontin.

That's often a term you'll hear, a street term as well that you'll hear used.

This medication is an opioid and it is

oral only so comparing that to like morphine where we've got a ton of different dosage

forms oxycodone only comes as an oral agent at least that that's commercially manufactured. So like I mentioned,

it's an opioid analgesic, just a refresher mechanistically. This drug will bind opioid receptors

in the brain, central nervous system. And that's going to block those pain signals from getting to the brain. So essentially,

this doesn't allow the patient to perceive pain or at least perceive it to a significant extent.

They recognize that they may be hurt or injured, whatever the case may be, but their brain doesn't allow them

to perceive those pain signals coming to the central nervous system. So again, it doesn't really

reduce inflammation at the sight of the pain or whatever the case may be, but it actually just

blocks the signals.

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