How to Use oxycodone in a Sentence

oxycodone

noun

• For many of my co-workers, oxycodone and hydrocodone were the painkillers of choice.
  — Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
• Police documents state the man had THC and oxycodone in his system at the time of the crash.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2022
• A half pill of oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller, was found on a nightstand next to the man’s chair.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2020
• The drugs were identified as 30-mg pills of oxycodone, the statement reads.
  — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 Sep. 2019
• His drugs of choice later in life were opioids, such as oxycodone.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2021
• Her fight against drugs wasn't limited to oxycodone, of course.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
• In hindsight, Puerta said, Daniel was getting what the teen thought was oxycodone.
  — Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, 23 June 2022
• There was the team trainer busted by the DEA for peddling oxycodone to players.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022
• She was overprescribed oxycodone, which dampened, shaped and authored the end of her life in March 2020.
  — New York Times, 18 July 2022
• Harper went on to note that the tests are not designed to detect oxycodone, methadone, or clonazepam.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
• The driver, a Garfield Heights man, 22, did not have a driver’s license, and was found to be in possession of five oxycodone pills.
  — cleveland, 18 Dec. 2020
• The doctor gave her intravenous Tylenol and four oxycodone tablets.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2021
• Three days later, he was found on his mother’s couch in Jamaica, Queens, dead of an overdose of that drug and oxycodone.
  — Tyler Blint-Welsh, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• The child, who was not identified, bought and consumed a pill with a label consistent with the painkiller oxycodone.
  — Josh Campbell, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
• But available records show the arrests on Monday came to just 33 oxycodone pills and 30 grams of meth, or about enough to fill eight sugar packets.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
• The mussels in which traces of oxycodone were found were from Seattle and Bremerton area harbors.
  — NBC News, 25 May 2018
• Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, submitted a prescription for the oxycodone to the court prior to the ruling.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
• Pills containing oxycodone and hydrocodone topped the list.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2019
• Pills are sometimes disguised to look like other painkillers, like oxycodone.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2022
• In three of the 18 locations, the mussels then tested positive for trace amounts of oxycodone.
  — Christina Capatides, CBS News, 24 May 2018
• There was pain, but nothing a tapered dose oxycodone couldn’t manage.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 18 Nov. 2019
• There were oxycodone pills that tested positive for heroin and over-the-counter cough medicine, and Vicodin tablets that turned out to be fentanyl.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• By 2015, doctors and prescribers were more aware of the addictive properties of the drugs, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone.
  — Lauryn Schroeder, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2022
• Skaggs had both fentanyl and oxycodone in his system at the time of his death, according to the report.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 2 July 2019
• Pettit at the time pleaded not guilty to selling Miller the fake oxycodone pills that led to the Grammy nominee’s overdose at age 26.
  — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 22 Nov. 2024
• Many times it is blended with heroin or disguised as oxycodone, posing a greater risk.
  — David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 June 2018
• Mills’ pregnant wife and children were held at gunpoint while Baker ransacked the home for oxycodone pills.
  — Fox News, 19 Jan. 2022
• Alex Nava got his first little blue pill, a prescription-strength dose of oxycodone, from a friend during the summer of 2018.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2020
• Morphine, codeine, oxycodone, hydrocodone and fentanyl are all opioids.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
• Whisenant and White picked up the oxycodone from Solis before the Marine overdosed at the party, according to prosecutors.
  — Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 3 Feb. 2025