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Oxymorphone is powerful as fuck when you snort it. I almost ODed on it multiple times when the old school ERs were still common.
Back when those octagonal Opana 40 tablets were still prescribed, every single person who tried the stuff loved it BUT whereas oxycodone is MORE potent if consumed orally, oxymorphone is around x5 more potent if consumed parentherally.
Oxymorphone is almost exactly like the stuff that used to be prescribed in the UK. It FAVOURS abuse.
Maybe it's purely coincidental, but it's potency (both oral and parentheral) matches oxymorphone.
But as I noted, I found an image of the original 1950s pamphlet posted to GPs in the UK where 'high oral bioavailability' was a 'key advantage' so unless a doctor had good reason to obtain the academic paper (a long job in those days), they might reasonably believe that people consuming the pills via a parentheral route was unlikely. But a straw-poll suggests that back when it was quite commonly prescribed, it killed almost everyone who DID abuse them.
I should add that even orally, the stuff was considered inconsistant by users. The classic comment was 'one day you swallow five and are fine, the next day you swallow three and turn blue'.
But as I said, this stuff is now thankfully NOT in the BNF. How many had to die for the dangers to be acknowledged, I have no idea. But certainly for over a decade the stuff was infamous...
