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Does freshness play a role in the strength of opiate pills?

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As far as 'freshness' like straight from the factory to the pharmacy I would say no that shouldn't make a difference in the potency. Most drugs aren't stored in pharmacies for more than a month, and then they have to ship them back to the distributor, where they destroy it ( :( ) and send back a new shipment. I know these things because a classmate of mine is a pharm tech. Your tolerance could have went down juuuust a little while you were waiting. How long was the wait and did you go without anything while you waited?
 
As far as 'freshness' like straight from the factory to the pharmacy I would say no that shouldn't make a difference in the potency. Most drugs aren't stored in pharmacies for more than a month, and then they have to ship them back to the distributor, where they destroy it ( :( ) and send back a new shipment. I know these things because a classmate of mine is a pharm tech. Your tolerance could have went down juuuust a little while you were waiting. How long was the wait and did you go without anything while you waited?

Are you sure? I did 40mg of tabs at around 10am. They didnt do anything but kept off withdrawals.
 
Like delRi0 said, from a pharmacy, you will always have the freshest pills from a pharmacy.
A common dealer will have a higher chance of losing freshness, but potency loss takes a long time, so either way I wouldn't wouldn't worry about it.
 
You're not buying bread from a bakery here...

Think about how dangerous it would be if there was a substantial difference in the strength of "fresh" pills and older ones. It's ludicrous to think regulatory agencies would allow this and if they did, that there wouldn't be ubiquitous warnings.

Typically pills have to maintain their efficacy around 100% for at least a year and opioids, if stored properly, will stay effective exponentially longer.
 
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