What is difference between Oxycontin and suboxone?

Answer 1

Hydrocodone is a full agonist Buprinorphine is a partial agonist/antagonist

*I don't know if I'm doing this right, but Ill answer anyways- hydrocodone is an opiate...yaknow, oxy's heroin, vic, perc etc. when you are addicted and you want to get off, the doctor prescribes subutex/suboxone (Suboxone includes naltrexone) It is a partial synthetic opiate and attaches to your receptor sites so that you don't have withdrawl basically. It binds really tight to the receptor sites, so if you were to take say a hydro, the buprenorphin (subutex) would kick it out cuz its stronger. trust me.

^ Just as said^ if you take the sub and then try and take a full agonist such as hydro or even heroin the bupe in the sub will not budge and you wont get the desired affect. (the only exception being if you only did a very small amount of suboxone or subutex).

now flip it. If you take a dose of hydro heroin Oxycontin anything and then take some suboxone the buprenorphine is going to knock those other opiates right off your receptors and you will go through withdrawal. After 30mins to an hour the Bupe will situate itself and you will feel better but don't try it, it's really not something you want to test out and it's a waste of money.

Answer 2

There is a big difference. Basically suboxone is used to help people that are dependent on oxycontin, lortab, vicodin, percocet and other opiate painkillers. Suboxone is an opiate blocker and when taken helps to ease the withdrawal symptoms that people experience when trying to quit taking or abusing opiates.

Answer 3

Oxycontin is the brand name for a time release coated pain pill that ONLY contains the narcotic oxycodone. Oxycontin should only ever be given to patients that require long term pain managment(chronic &/or terminal conditions!) For acute or short term patients, there are many good choices for them that contain oxycodone or hydrocodone. Pills that contain any amount of oxycodone are class 2 drugs and cannot be called in or have refills on the rx. Hydrocodone pills will contain either tylenol or asprin and are class 3 which does allow for docs to call in and put up to 5 refills on 1 scrip. For this reason most people believe that it is not as strong as oxycodone; but this is not true. Mg. to mg. hydrocodone is actually a little stronger than oxycodone and although they are very simular, they are different. Hydro. is alot more commonly prescribed and can be more tolerated by most patients that cannot take oxycodone due to side effects. Oxycodone comes in pills that contain either tylenol or asprin up to 10mg.(percocet, roxicet, tylox, etc..) It also comes in pure form up to 30mg. imediate release pills. Hydro. only comes in combo pills up to 10mg.(vicodin, loratab, norco, etc..) and is also in a liquid form that is used in cough syrup. There is no pure 100% hydro. pills made at this time; but with all the damage tylenol causes, I do believe that there will be eventually. Hope this helps to answer your question.