answer:Welcome to Fluther, @Reggz. Oxycontin is a VERY powerful analgesic, and it’s also very easy to get addicted to it, as it not only relieves severe pain, it induces a feeling of pleasure and euphoria. This chart rates OTC pain killers with a standard aspirin being 1, and rates prescription analgesics with 200 mg of Celebrex being 3.7 in relation to the 1 of an aspirin. According to it, 80 mg of Oxycontin would equal 17 times the pain-killing power of an aspirin. In comparison, a 30 mg dose of morphine sulfate would equal 9. If you’re taking it, be careful with it and be religious about following your doctor’s instructions and reporting results and frequency/dosing. If it could get a right-wing blowhard like anti-druggie Rush Limbaugh addicted, it’s high octane stuff not all that different from heroin.