I think that this may be true for smoking the whole pill. But what I was doing was not your run of the mill everyday pill smoking attempt. I was attempting to find a less unhealthy way of smoking pills by filtering out the binders and fillers and then letting the water evaporate to leave behind the much purer(but still not pure) oxycodone. This would be done best with the pills I used due to their extremely small size and their decent amount of oxycodone and with no other active ingredients or wax or all of that other useless junk in other oxycodone pills.
I think that it may actually work, just not very well. I think the main problem is that it needs to be converted into a base before being smoked to get the optimum effect.
Does anyone have any experience turning chemicals like these into their base forms? Is it as easy as cooking up a little crack? Should the same ratio of drug to baking soda be used? Should heat be applied to it for a relatively short amount of time, or longer? And how hot should the solution actually be allowed to get, would boiling it for a short amount of time in a spoon with baking soda and water just destroy it because of the heat? Does it need to be extremely lightly heated so it just barely bubbles at all?
Even if you don't have first hand experience converting pills, if you have any well thought out and logical guesses I'd like to hear them.
edit: I might try to restrain myself from taking many pills for a few days so I could justify to myself wasting a whole roxicodone to this experiment, but turned into base form. Another question, is base oxycodone a solid or a liquid at room temp, will I be getting some form of small rocks or just an oil? It would probably be much harder to do if its an oil, I would need tips from people experienced with freebasing oils.