Less than a month after the White House warned of a potential influx of painkillers from Canada that government officials say are easier for addicts to abuse, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a similar pill for distribution nationwide.
Amid growing concerns of abuse of their products, Purdue Pharma and Endo Pharmaceuticals reformulated OxyContin and OPANA so that the pills were more difficult to abuse by prescription painkiller addicts. Abusers typically crushed those generally time-released pills into a powder and injected them, allowing their bodies to get the full dosage at one time.
This is nothing new about the oxys being made harder to abuse. I know someone who used a go-around to beat that and it worked.
ReplyDeleteThen shortly after they tried it again without their 'instructor' and didn't do it right. The first one to inject died.
I'm glad I do not have that problem but there are many who do. It's a shame they have to produce pills in such a way they are not abused but they have to.
Bringing back the old formula in generics? What are they thinking?