Abuse of New Opana Pill Causes Blood-Clots

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The Fix said:
As if abusing painkillers weren't already dangerous enough. Despite a new version of Opana ER being released last February, designed to be harder to abuse, Tennessee health officials are reporting cases of a rare blood-clotting problem among people who injected the drug after crushing the pills (which are meant to be taken orally). Only about one in 100,000 people generally develop thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), a disorder that causes clots to form in small blood vessels around the body. But 15 cases were reported in the state between last August to October—and all were linked to intravenous drug abuse, with 14 of the 15 related to Opana.

"The advantage [of crushing the drug] is it gets into the bloodstream faster," says Dr. Leonard Paulozzi, a medical epidemiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Apparently, the amount of euphoria associated with the drug is associated with how fast the drug level rises in your bloodstream." The condition can be fatal if left untreated, but none of the patients died; 12 were treated for Hepatitis C and seven were treated for sepsis, a toxic condition that can cause vital organs to shut down.

The new formulation of Opana is similar to newer versions of Oxycontin aimed at preventing users from pulverizing the pills or dissolving them for injection. But according to Dr. David Kirschke, deputy state epidemiologist for the Tennessee Department of Health, "the condition appears to be associated specifically with the reformulated version of the medication. It could be that something was done to the pill, which may be what's causing actual illness when they do abuse it."
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http://www.thefix.com/content/opana-blood-clotting91133
 
Wow...In a sense, I'm not surprised. Opana is a serious, serious opiate. Having been hooked on these myself, I'm glad I never have shot anything in my arm.

In my worst state with these pills, I never ran into the TRF. With that being said, if I would've had to buy the TRF instead, I can guarantee you I would've went to great lengths to get it up my nose.

Be careful using these, and if you're contemplating using these, let this be another deterrent.
 
Seriously. I think these people knew the risk they were taking. Its a good thing almost everyone on this site explains to people the dangers of shooting pills. Not WORTH IT!!
 
23536 said:
As I asked in the previous thread, what are the odds that these pills were designed to do this?
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I doubt they were designed to act in this way to try to scare people away from abuse. During prohibition the government poisoned alcohol with all sorts of stuff out of frustration that people were still drinking, and during the 70s sprayed Mexican marijuana with paraquat in the hope that the knowledge of it would deter smokers, but don't corporations generally profit from addiction? I think it's more likely that they knew the potential dangers but also knew it would cost a lot more to continue research into an anti-abuse formulation that carried less risk than it is that they purposely designed the new formulation to be dangerous. Even if many raised protest it's hard to prove calculated negligence with such a low body count (especially with the obvious excuses that it was designed specifically to deter abuse and even pure oxymorphone IVd can kill with relative ease).
 
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