Once a patient overdosing on oxycodone a person must immediately call 911. When a patient has an addiction to oxycodone a patient may be lying or steal to obtain more of oxycodone, trying to get more of the substance by having false medical histories to the physician, or even forging prescription of the drug. Other addition symptoms are the patient has a change of interest and change of personality; they are having abandoning to their life and their motivation is to obtain the drug. When a patient wants to get off of the drug he or she can try to ween off of the …show more content…
There are many dosage of oxycodone for adult patients, but each patient must follow the directions in the prescription. If the patient is having a small amount of pain he or she will get at least 5 to 15 milligram of oxycodone and must take it orally and every four to six hours. If a patient has chronic pain such as chronic back or leg pain, that patient should take an extended release tablet of oxycodone. The milligram is about 10 milligram and must take it orally and take it every 12 hours with food. If taking it without food, the patient stomach may get indigestion, stomach inflammation or even