Latest version of time-release pill is harder to crush to get bigger high
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from:msnbc.comNew form of harder-to-abuse OxyContin OK'd
Seeded on Tue Apr 6, 2010 2:13 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
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Other than being more expensive and equally prone to abuse, what benefits does Oxy offer over previous medications?
Make the drug companies PROVE a drug is BETTER, not just different.
If they promote "off label" use, SHUT DOWN THE COMPANY. I am sick and tired of corporations KILLING PEOPLE to make a BUCK.
End the personal death penalty, begin the CORPORATE DEATH PENALTY!!!
Very good point. I was a pharmacy tech in my early 20's before nursing school. One time at work I poured a bottle of a very popular and very expensive heart med onto the counting tray. I noticed each pill had a tiny pin hole in the coating. I said to my boss, our pharmacist, I think these pills are defective they have holes in them. He laughed and said no they are fine.
He explained that the tiny hole in the coating was they way the drug company could make the pill time-released. Now get this, the company had a patent on the original heart med and when the 15 year patent came due they all the sudden came out with a time-released formula !!! The pin hole was a technique that was invented in the early 50's, yet they were able to use it, extend their patent another 15 years and get away with it.
After nursing school and many years in the health care field ive learned many tricks of the trade. You would be astounded !!!! When we have a drug rep lunch and one of the reps are pitching their 'NEW DRUG' I often bring this subject ti light. Let me tell you it stops them dead in their tracks, they don't even know how to respond to me. LOL!!!
here here srs- i agree with you they need to start over or be prepared to pay for the rehab. of people using their product.
They aren't anything but legalized dope pushers. They're so many people that have died from oxycontin. I don't see how they get away with it. They should be charged & thrown in prison. I like the other guys idea, make them pay for all the addicts rehab.
Where there's a will there's a way!!!
Making it harder to crush does nothing to affect it's addictivness. The irony is that OxyContin was originally labeled the new wonder drug for pain with a low chance of addictivness. That turned out to be not true. Even Rush Limbaugh found that out the hard way.
Great news, Rush!
the only thing this will accomplish is more overdoses. if someone wants to abuse something, theyre goning to find a way to do it. now people will just take more trying to get high and not know how many mg's they are taking at a time...or they're just going to start usin g heroin.
Way to go DEA! You just caused more deaths and a boost in the illegal drug market!
"They aren't anything but legalized dope pushers. They're so many people that have died from oxycontin. I don't see how they get away with it. They should be charged & thrown in prison. I like the other guys idea, make them pay for all the addicts rehab."
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Oxycontin isn't anymore addicting than morphine, dilaudid, fentanyl, hydrocodone...and so on. So you think that they should get rid of all pain killers?....I hope you get shot in the leg....then tell the paramedics how you feel about opiates.