With all due respect, dosing schedule and biological half life have little to do with the addictive potential of oxycodone. Put simply, it lights up the brain's reward center like a Christmas tree. If you dig, you can find studies that show that oxycodone causes a far greater dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens than even IV heroin. This has been known for a long time. The people who developed oxycodone knew what they were doing - engineering the most addictive opiate on the market. Purdue really needs to be held accountable for what they've done and the lives they've ruined and/or ended. The blame for the opioid epidemic falls squarely on them, in my opinion.