The high availability of Oxycodone pills correlated with increased abuse, diversion, and addiction, and by 2004, oxycodone pills had become a leading drug of abuse in the United States. Modifications of the promotion and marketing of controlled drugs by the pharmaceutical industry and an enhanced capacity of the agencies for food and drug administration around the globe to regulate and monitor such promotion can have a positive impact on the public health.Ĭontrolled drugs, with their potential for abuse and diversion, can pose public health risks that are different from and more problematic than those of uncontrolled drugs when they are over promoted and highly prescribed. It is usually taken by mouth, and is available in immediate-release and controlled-release formulations.
Oxycodone is an opioid medication used for treatment of moderate to severe pain, and a common drug of abuse. The green round pill with the imprint K 8 has been identified as Oxycodone Hydrochloride 15 mg supplied by KVK Tech Inc.
