Oxycodone is used for managing moderate to genuine extreme or interminable torture when various drugs are not adequate. It may work on close to home fulfillment in explicit sorts of torment. It is undefined if use in ceaseless torture achieves worked on close to home fulfillment or constant torture alleviation

Oxycodone is open as controlled-release tablet, expected to be required every 12 hours A July 1996 examination liberated from Purdue Pharma tracked down the controlled-release plan had a variable term of action going from 10–12 hours.

A 2006 review tracked down that controlled-release oxycodone is identical to second release oxycodone, morphine, and hydromorphone in the leading body of moderate to outrageous harmful development torture, with less responses than morphine. The maker assumed that the controlled release structure is a generous choice rather than morphine and a first-line treatment for threatening development torment In 2014, the European Association for Palliative Care proposed oxycodone by mouth as a second-line alternative as opposed to morphine by mouth for infection torment.