Citric Acid; it works.
Just reporting back after trying the Sour Patch Kid/citric acid experiment. Very strange, indeed. FWIW, my tolerance is about the same as my friend's: I am quite opiate tolerant. I have used opiates for 10 years now, and used daily (without a single break) for 3.5 years. Currently, I take (3) 80 mg. oxycontin daily, with up to (10) 10/325 hydrocodone/apap for breakthrough. I seem to have hit some kind of tolerance sweet spot with this level of medication and have been at this same dose for a year now with no increases needed. I crush and chew/swallow my oxycontin, always have.
I began to receive the new OP 80's with my last refill, which was about 3/4 new formula. This was just a few days ago and so far --although I have read every post and every word of every post in this thread and the others -- I have been chewing and/or sucking the new OPs, to disappointing effect. I have not gone into withdrawal, but I have also not had any "rush" or "euphoria" which , despite my tolerance, I was most certainly still having with the old OCs, reliably. I know perhaps more than most exactly how dangerous a little knowledge can be, and thus had no intention whatsoever of trying any sort of extraction using industrial solvents (it should also be noted that I failed an acting class in college due to my inability to walk & talk simultaneously onstage, and that currently I consider it a good week if I do not fall and break a bone, so yes, I am profoundly ungraceful and clutzy and would no doubt severely injure both myself and my neighbors were I to dabble in solvents), and was sort of just lazily waiting for a safe and elegant solution to present itself.
I don't know if anyone can call Sour Patch Kids elegant, exactly, but as far as I'm concerned, they are certainly safe, and most definitely a solution. I popped an 80 mg OP in my mouth at about 11:30 am, having eaten a small fatty meal in preparation (a generous slice of Entenmann's cheese-laden coffee cake, if you want to get all scientific about it). I sucked on the OP and concurrently ate an entire two small bags of Sour Patch Kids (assorted flavor).
Apart from the fact that I find the texture of the gel in the pill foul to the point of actual psychic trauma, it was an uneventful hour until the pill was dissolved (unless you count the time I raised my cigarette to my lips to take a drag and when I pulled it away, a long thin strand of plastic from the pill came away attached to both my lip and the cigarette and stretched to a good 2' before it broke; there's something really viscerally disturbing about knowing you are eating that much plastic)....
I began to feel the effects of the oxy strongly about 50 minutes into the suck-fest that it was (in so many ways) and was nodding hard approx. 90 minutes after I had popped it into my mouth, which was approx. 30 minutes after it had finished dissolving. This experience was VERY different from my previous experiences sucking on the pill without the added Sour Patch Kids. I had the expected euphoria of the old OCs and an added (completely new to me) intense head rush, similar to the very first time you smoke a cigarette (for me, at age 8; yes I'm just that bad-ass). Sadly, I completely nodded out after about an hour and just now woke up. I am chronically sleep-deprived and have been even more so since the arrival of the OPs, so this was actually OK with me; I caught up on some much-needed sleep. I even drooled. Good thing I'm cute.
In conclusion, for ME and at least three other people, the addition of citric acid through a Sour Patch Kid medium somehow increases the solubility of the oxy, causing it to be metabolized almost as quickly as the OCs. I don't think there is any need to load up on citric acid to the point of nausea; I just ate a couple small bags of SPK's (which also REALLY helped with the unspeakably disgusting gel-mouth you get) and my body's response was intense enough that I actually asked someone to watch me while I slept, which I haven't had to do in months, taking the OCs via crushing with a mortar & pestle and swallowing. Somehow, this seemed stronger than an OC 80, which is really quite strange to me. Now, several hours in, I have peaked and am on the downslide, but it is subtle and I am still comfortably impaired.
I hope our humble SPK solution doesn't get lost in the crush, so to speak. It works, it's simple, elegant and safe. Nope, it doesn't make OPs able to be insufflated or injected but with oral b/a at near 100%, you can hardly ask for more.
