Are Hydrocodone and oxymorphone as addictive as Oxy?

This is a re-posting of a thread that resurfaced today. Wasn't my question, but there's been a bit of activity on the old thread ... see the older version for recent posts.

Are hydromorphone (dilaudid) and oxymorphone (opana) addictive as oxycontin?
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, Mar 12, 2007 12:00AM
Tags: hydromorphone, dilaudid, Addiction, pain, reading, receptor
I've been reading posts in here and it seems alot of people are/were addicted to vicoden/lortab/norco and oxycontin, but I haven't read about anyone being addicted to dilaudid or oxymorphone.  Are 2 drugs considered as addictive as oxycontin?  I'm asking because my g/f's pain doctor might switch her from methadone to one of these.  She doesnt abuse her methadone at all, she has no desire, but I have seen her take excessive amounts of oxycontin in the past. Thanks!  Reported Report this Spam
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[tempted622]

I think that has alot to do with availability. Hydro's and oxys u can get anywhere, but recently I noticed oxymorphone being out on the street. as for dauladid I never came across that and I was buying pills on the street for years. I always heard it was most similar to heroin. When I was on methadone it was most similar to the heroin high but safer.

[candothis247]

I think oxycontin is more addicting.

I goggled and found the below, in wikipedia, for what it’s worth; someone told me wikipedia is not always true and accurate.

"Hydromorphone is used in medicine as an alternative to morphine and diacetylmorphine for analgesia and as a second- or third-line narcotic antitussive (cough suppressant) for cases of dry, painful, paroxysmal coughing resulting from continuing bronchial irritation after influenza and other ailments, inhalation of fungus and other causes, and is generally regarded to be the strongest of the latter class of drugs, and was developed shortly after another powerful antitussive, heroin, was removed from clinical use for this purpose in most of the world and in many countries banned outright. Part of the effectiveness of hydrocodone for this purpose may be due to part of the dose being converted to hydromorphone in the liver".

[voxxx]

In my opinion they are pretty much just as addicting as oxycodone. I have used all 3 before but mainly oxy, however if I was ever able to get some opana or dilaudid I would not pass up that 'opportunity'. If I had as easy access to hydromorphone or oxymorphone as I do to oxycodone, I would have stopped using oxycodone in favor of either of the 2.