Talk:Oxycodone

In 2007, the profits were just a few billion.^[1] As of July 2016, more than $31 billion from OxyContin, the nation's bestselling painkiller.^[2][3][4]

The OxyContin profits have added the family to the Forbes: The $14 Billion Newcomer to Forbes 2015 List of Richest U.S. Families^[5] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.218.11.176 (talk • contribs)

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It is well established and should be obvious why the drug improves quality of life in some populations, such as those with lower back or finger pain. Or it might be a disambiguation error (if not editor overhanding) because the drug class may cause dependency overall and is abused often, overall, but at the same time there are few options for managing pain outside of opioids and for those that need it (and don't respond to NSAIDs) such as those living in constant pain it does benefit their quality of life - both in freedom from pain and the ability to perform in daily life where their ailment is normally going to prevent them from doing so - and thats fact. You could also say that people taking the drug for fun have their quality of life improve from the euphoria of the drug. Again, it is established that pain medication (this drug) improves the quality of life in those with chronic pain and that it does its job for what it is designed to do, and addiction or abuse is a side effect or risk. Saying that it does not - in my opinion - is imparting your bias into the article, as one other editor said in the two-person conversation.

Tagging the other editors here so that they are aware @User:EnvPolLKFall @User:Traumnovelle.

As the other editor said, the article does say that it improves quality of life - and there are countless other studies (for the drug class overall) that it does - while an opioid crisis happening does not diminish that fact wherein the drug was over-prescribed and/or abused on the illegal drug trade market because otherwise they would have to live without pain and therefore their quality of life is reduced. Furthermore, if articles are going to be edited in some form of redaction or censorship because of side effects, then none of the medications available to us improve quality of life. It is also just your opinion and panic to say that it doesn't. I'll end by saying that fentanyl - another drug of its type - and xylazine - are an issue right now in the states but offer benefits to surgery as well as pain (again of this type, in cancer pain) and studies for fentanyl (which the Wikipedia page for it cites) do say that it improves the quality of life in these patients, such as with the buccal tablets. [[User:Catcus_DeMeowwy]] (talk) 08:41, 19 November 2025 (UTC)