I dare you all not to shoot OPANA ER! I live in Austria, and here we have a medication called "Compensan retard" (the "retard" stands for extended release). The pills come in strengths of 60, 120, 200 and 300mg. They contain morphine-hydrochloride-trihydrate.
They are prepped by the junks (I did it myself a few times, but micron-filtered) like that:
-Wash coating off (of course they just suck it off, and it's useless to tell them that they should use water)
-water on spoon, WHOLE pill in the water
-heat it till it boils, boil for 30-60seconds, Pill will swell just a little bit. It's not noticable for someone who doesn't know.
-Now the pill was cooked for a minute, it has become deformable. "Ductile" like metals. You just stomp the pill to a flat circle with your syringe cap. Try not to break the "pill" apart, as it will cause more shit to dissolve, which does anyway.
-let it cool, cool with cold water that you spill over cosmetic pads, then put the spoon on them (NOBODY does it except me I guess, but if I didn't have anything back in the days when I shot this stuff, I wouldn't even touch it, as my DOC was oxys - yes we still have shootable oxys here, now I am forced by my doctor to use morphine as it's cheaper for the insurance)
-cotton-filter it
-micron-filter it
-shoot slowly, as morphine causes an intense histamine rush which CAN kill you if it is too intense. Even if you have a very high opiate tolerance (like 800-1000mg morphine IVed a day), it doesn't mean that your histamine tolerance has risen this far too. I nearly died three times because of the histamine.
Now the junkies here think that the "Compensan" is better than the "Substitol", which is in fact better! Substitol contains a waxy granulate which contains morphine-sulphate-pentahydrate. Strenghts are 120 (green capsules) and 200mg (red capsules). Just cook the granulate up with water on a spoon, let it cool down (cool it, so that most of the insuluables settle down on the bottom), micron-filter and shoot. All people except me don't micron-filter, they just cotton filter (if they do!) and shoot it. Problem: talc. But it's MUCH better than the Compensan. The company that makes Compensan wanted to make more money and thought they could bring the same pills to the market under another name. It's named "Vendal" and it's fore pain patients, but no pain patient gets it, as all doctors prescribe it for opiate maintainance therapy. In German, we call this "therapy" "Substitution".
So there's pills called "Compensan" and "Vendal" (they are the same, just different names) which contain morphine. They must be cooked as a whole and now comes the shocking part: HALF of one 200mg pill blocks one micron filter! It just won't go through it. There's something in the pill which is soluable I think. Macrogol maybe? Don't know. But I think it could be the same as in the OPANA ER pills. The "solution" you get is a little more "thick" than water. I don't know how to say it... it's "viscid" or "viscous" (the dictionary said that's the words for what I mean). You know what I mean. It's just a little more thick than water. As if something had dissolved in it which binds water, or if a hell of a lot insuluable particles which are smaller than 0,2µm (and bigger) are in it.
I personally HATE shooting those things, as I fear having an embolus. A solution has to be like water. And if something blocks your micron-filter, it's dangerous! I could filter 20 oxy pills (oxycontin 80mg) through one micron-filter (cotton-filtered before of course, otherwise the filter would be filled up with fillers after a single one pill). I could even filter more, and the micron-filter would still do well. The solution is like water. You all know what I mean. The same with Substitol. I cook it up, let it cool down, micron-filter and it's like water. It won't block the filter either.
There is something in OPANA ER, as well as in other pills like Compensan and Vendal which I mentioned, that dissolves and binds water I guess. OPANA ER are designed to gel up anyway, right? So there you got it. Even if you soak your pills in water or water/IPA, some of that shit dissolves and binds water, and that's why it blocks a micron-filter. Even if you can't see anything blocking it, you can't push the plunger down anymore. It's BLOCKED. The Compensan/Vendal pills I mentioned have much less of that stuff in them I guess, so they don't gel up, BUT they form a "solution" that's a little bit thicker than water. But I guess it's the absolute same substance that causes this water-binding-effect or at least an equivalent one.
Look: It's no mystery to create a ER pill. The pharma-people all around the globe use similar substances or even the same substances to create this or that effect.
I really hope that the global system breaks down in the next few years (5-10 years or so) so humanity HAS to build a new and better one, a human one. I hope that people who need opioids to feel healthy get the opioid the want in whatever form they want it (injectable, snortable powder, pills, drops...) and whatever quantity they need it. The prices needed to be fair and the insurance should pay it. I mean one gram of mophine-hcl isn't worth much. It costs 10 dollars, and that's the highest price I guess. A friend of mine get's morphine-hcl dissolved in pure destilled water. They make it for him in the pharmacy, and it's very cheap he says. So if opiates wouldn't get priced at 10000000000% the original price, they could be regular medicine. I really hope that all that pill-shooting ends one day, as everyone will be able to go to the doctor and/or pharmacy and buy his/her beloved substances.
The war on drugs has failed. We must try the exact opposite way. And it will work. People who seem to like opiates are ill. They have a brain-desease which could be described as an deregulated endorphine-neurotransmitter-system. This must be treated like any other illness! They need their effin medicine! Give them what they want/need, and the world will be a better place.
The message of my post is: DON'T SHOOT OPANA ER. It contains a substance that dissolves and binds water, which can't be filtered out, even with a micron-filter. If you want to shoot something, shoot something which you know is shootable. AND ALWAYS USE MICRON FILTERS!!! And even if you perform all your "specialized methods" (it's laughable, I mean do you guys really think that you're pro's who know how to get a SOLUTION from a pill? WITHOUT a micron-filter? even with a micronfilter you get a SUSPENSION, but there's much better pills for shooting than Opana), the substance I spoke of will dissolve. The quantity will be much lower, but anyway - you will inject a little bit of it anytime you shoot OPANA ER. And it won't be filtered out of your blood. It will remain there... wherever it ends up. Creepy, isn't it?
I really feel sorry for you US-guys. They re-formulated the oxycontin and therefore destroyed a good opiate for snorting/shooting. ALL those people will either try to still shoot/snort it with some "special method", or go for heroin and give illegal cartells a lot of money. I feel so sorry for you. Here in Europe, there's still oxycontin with the original formula. But it's not mass-consumed like in the US. A pretty small amount of people is prescribed oxycontin over here, and from this amount of people, there's an even smaller amount of people who use it by snorting/shooting. So it won't be a problem, and I hope they keep the original formula, as pain patients suffered from the new formula as well. They don't produce the same effect as the old ones and work worse for pain.
I hope that in the next 1-2 years, you US-guys get your oxycontin back. Either the original ones or generic ones which resemble the original oxycontin.