Yes what is the difference? I never learned much about Oxycontin but I just heard of it and I heard it was the same as Heroin almost.
What is the difference between actual Heroin and Oxycontin?
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First, the active ingredient in Oxicontin is oxycodone, usually as a hydrochloride or bitartrate salt. Oxycodone is created from either codeine or thebain. Really, oxycodone is most similiar to codeine.
Heroin on the other hand, is derived from morphine.. It is actually called diacetylmorphine, It is produced produced when pure morphine is treated with acetyl-chloride or acetic anhydride.
Both of these,as well as morphine and codeine are a set of alkaloids, whose chemical family are called the phene-anthrene alkaloids. They are made from the sap of the opium poppy. Codeine, morphine and thebaine are "natural", in that they can be directly extracted from the poppy.
But oxycodone and diacetylmorphine are known as semisynthetic, in that they are made from the more natural codeine, morphine or thebaine.
Heroin (diacetylmorphine) is a more potent analgesic than oxycodone,
As I understand it, both oxycodone and Heroin are is converted to morphine in the brain.
Oxycontin is an opiate like heroin, and like heroin it is a drug which is illicitly abused. The consequences of an overdose are the same, the symptoms of withdrawal are the same and the consequences of being caught dealing and possessing are the same.