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Does oxytocin act like heroin? please, need some answers?
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I think you are: mixing up Oxytocin, which is a hormone produced by women in labor and during breastfeeding (and is available as a medication to help induce labor) with OxyContin, which is a brand name of a sustained release oxycodone. Oxycodone is a cousin of heroin, and in fact when OxyContin first started getting popular in some rural areas, it was called "hillbilly heroin."
Answered 7/29/2014
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