oxycontin is extended release so a longer half life.,..
suboxone has a halflife of up to 3 days where lortab is 5-6 hours..methadone also has a long
half life as well...therefore drugs like sub, methadone...oxycontn to a lesser degree are harder to wd from and the wd takes longer due to the long half life
when some one has been tapering/slowly cuting back their dose each day...sometimes they get to the point where it is time to "jump off" or get it over with...