The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a controversial settlement that would have sent billions of dollars to treatment programs and victims of the nation’s opioid epidemic but that also shielded the Sackler family from future lawsuits despite the fact that it made its fortune selling prescription opioids.
Morphine (not sure about codeine) are/is one of the few options that are direct acting.
Oxy, Vicodin, and all the rest first get broken down I to an active metobalite. Even if they’re not XR. XR just compounds the issue