Oxymorphone?

When do hospitals use it INSTEAD of Morphine, Demerol, or Codeine.
Answer:
It's a powerful drug, in no way comparable to codeine. Morphine is standard, and there's a new movement in emergency medicine in which some ED's are becoming Demerol-free zones. Meperidine (Demerol) is pretty useless as an oral analgesic, anyway. Oxymorphone is used in an occasional situation in which pain is severe and morphine can't be used. It tends, though, to be popular in the drug culture, so most physicians avoid it altogether.

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kindly see wikipedia, they have good text.

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