How to Use oxycodone in a Sentence

oxycodone

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 are sometimes disguised to look like other painkillers, like oxycodone.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2022
• 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
• He was charged in April with providing oxycodone and morphine sulfate to a patient who died.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 4 May 2022
• Several of the pills were altered to pass off as legitimate oxycodone and Xanax pills, the press release added.
  — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2022
• The pills were made to look like other opioid medications, such as oxycodone.
  — Salvador Hernandezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
• One question that came up again and again was: Why are young people seeking Xanax and oxycodone from their peers or even complete strangers online?
  — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
• In each city, some of the pills sold over the counter as either oxycodone or Adderall tested positive for fentanyl or methamphetamine.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• In June 2022, he and Smith were hit with new felony charges — including one for the distribution and purchase of the narcotic oxycodone.
  — Fox News, 2 Feb. 2023
• Those who use opioids like hydrocodone, fentanyl, and oxycodone for more than two weeks are at risk for addiction.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 26 July 2023
• The citrus even has the ability to lift blood levels of drugs of abuse, including fentanyl, oxycodone, and ketamine.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2022
• The counterfeit oxycodone pills were laced with fentanyl, according to prosecutors, and led to the death of M.S. that evening in his apartment.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2022
• Wilson also disputed that the white powder shown in the ad is cocaine, noting that oxycodone can be crushed and inhaled through the nostrils.
  — Julia Shumway, oregonlive, 7 Oct. 2022
• In February, federal agents raided Williams’ Mobile apartment, with fentanyl and oxycodone pills among the items seized in the raid.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 23 Aug. 2023
• One of the men who supplied the counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that led to Mac Miller's death was sentenced Monday to more than 17 years in prison, authorities said.
  — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 17 May 2022
• The defendants would then fill the prescriptions at pharmacies located in the Montgomery area and give the oxycodone tablets to the scheme's organizers.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 1 May 2022
• Strickland said Wilson had been selling marijuana to teenagers for months before the fake oxycodone pill sales.
  — oregonlive, 1 July 2023
• In the following five years, the three companies’ shares fell to 57 percent of oxycodone and hydrocodone pills as the supply chain diversified.
  — Kevin Schaul, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• She was told her dog had somehow ingested oxycodone and overdosed.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2022
• Ben Campofreda turned from prescribed oxycodone to heroin and then fentanyl to treat chronic back pain.
  — Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2022
• Today the fakes are mostly disguised as baby blue M30s, 30-milligram oxycodone.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Twenty miles away in the resort town of San José del Cabo, ablue oxycodone pill from one store tested positive for fentanyl, while a white one from another did not.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• In Nuevo Progreso, entire bottles of oxycodone that turned out to be counterfeit could be bought for as little as $40.
  — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• The only other predator the show alludes to is a fleeting fear that drug dealers will come for the bag of cash and some bottles of oxycodone Liv discovered on the plane—but the worry is never mentioned again.
  — Outside Online, 4 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024