quick pharmy question

[acostiga]

maybe common sense should make this obvious, but it should be stated for the sake of your friend... he/she shouldn't try driving while he/she is messing around with the pill. i've heard of people having spinny, dizzy-spell reactions to the scenario as described that were coupled with a case of moderate panic/sweating. best not to be behind the wheel when that kind of thing might happen.

[Zeedashbo]

you are all gigantic pussies. take the drugs and have some fun. it's just a fucking pain pill.

[tetsuma]

If he puts them in his medicine kit and forgets about them, he'll be fine. Taking a 20 mg (and not chewing it, but swallowing it whole) is not going to cause him respiratory failure unless he's b adly hurt (alone) or is on other stuiff (booze, valium, some anti-depressants, booze, nitratres, or boner pills). an d goes w/o saying they are not going to help his skiing ability!

[Marv Albert]

you are all gigantic pussies. take the drugs and have some fun. it's just a fucking pain pill.

Yesss!!!

[berko]

Whether for buzz purposes, or for the relief of pain incurred by backcountry accident, this fact should be considered:

Oxycontin is oxycodone in a timed release pill meant to provide relief from chronic, unremitting pain such as in metastatic cancer to the bones. (The 'contin' suffix mean continuous release.)

Crushing the pill defeats the timed release mechanism and allows the full dose to be absorbed immediately.

[Tippster]

I think amphetamines and narcotics suck for getting fucked up (I much prefer Pot, Mushrooms, Mescaline, or LSD) but an informed druggie is a safe(r) druggie:

Illicit Uses

Oxycodone is abused for its opiate-like effects. In addition to its equipotency to morphine in analgesic effects, it is also equipotent to morphine in relieving abstinence symptoms from chronic opiate (heroin, morphine) administration.For this reason, it is often used to alleviate or prevent the onset of opiate withdrawal by street users of heroin and methadone. In early studies by the Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Kentucky in the 1960's, it was discovered that the subjective and physiological effects of oxycodone were greater than an equivalent dose of morphine in opiate substance abusers. Many dosage forms are available. Oxycodone’s behavioral effects can last up to 5 hours. The drug is most often administered orally. The sustained-release formula has a longer duration of action (8-12 hours). A recent study comparing controlled released products containing oxycodone (Oxycontin) and morphine (MS Contin) reported that Oxycontin was twice as potent as MS Contin.

As with most opiates, the adverse effects of oxycodone abuse are dependence and tolerance development. Oxycodone’s co-formulation with acetaminophen has also increased the likelihood of acetaminophen-induced hepatic necrosis with chronic dosing. Its availability in sustained release formulations has increased the dosage forms from 10 to 160 mg per tablet making it more attractive than oxycodone to opiate abusers and doctor-shoppers. The original idea of polymer-formulations of oxycodone was to reduce the likelihood of misuse with high dose formulations. Opiate abusers quickly learned the ease of extraction of the molecule from the polymer formula and have been injecting or snorting the crushed and/or dissolved tablets because of its’ higher dosage formulations.

http://www.prescription-drug-rehab.com/oxycodone.html

It seems that Oxycodone is used to wean Morphine addicts off the drug (odd) so that if your friend was truly allergic to the morphine and not to some other compound in the drip then they should be fine from an allergy standpoint.

Do what you will, but there are a lot of kids getting seriously hurt by this drug. the same cannot be said about my (non-alcohol) drugs of choice.

[irul&ublo]

I just got done talking to Larry Hagmans liver.

The old one or the new one?

[vinzclortho]

bring them to southie and sell them on the street, depending on the size/mg of the pills you can probably make some good money with an outside chance of not being stabbed. All the kids are doing it! Yay drugs!

[pointedem]

watch out for respratory depression if you are crushing, snoring, combining with other drugs. being stupid ect.

Keep em for when you really need them

check out erowid.net for more info about reactions, esp if morphine was causing him trouble.

do more research then asking a forum before you pop some super powerful narcotics