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News: Drug Co. Says It Prevails in Two OxyContin Lawsuits

fairnymph

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Mon Aug 5, 5:41 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The maker of the controversial painkiller OxyContin reported Monday that it has won two more lawsuits involving the drug.
OxyContin is designed to fight pain over a sustained period, but its time-release mechanism is foiled by abusers who crush the tablets and ingest, snort or inject the drug, resulting in a high similar to the one produced by heroin. In mid-April, the US Drug Enforcement Agency said that OxyContin may have contributed to more than 400 deaths over the past two years.
Subsequently, Purdue Pharma LP has been named in numerous lawsuits, which charge the privately held firm with failing to adequately warn consumers about OxyContin's potential for abuse or take other measures to prevent the illegal use of the drug.
According to Purdue Pharma, two such lawsuits filed in Kentucky and Ohio, respectively, were recently dismissed, bringing the total number of dismissals to 13.
A Purdue Pharma spokesman told Reuters Health that the company has not lost a single suit to date. "There have been no cases that have reached a conclusion at all, except for the dismissals."
"Purdue Pharma has not paid a penny in either settlements or damages to anyone," he added.
He said that there are currently about 120 other lawsuits over OxyContin pending against the company.
Despite its court victories, Purdue Pharma's image has suffered amid the fallout over the OxyContin deaths. In response to public pressure, the company is developing an abuse-resistant painkiller and is spearheading the establishment of a program to help fight drug abuse.
The program, called the Rx Action Alliance, is expected to bring together drugmakers, law enforcement agencies, healthcare groups and advocacy organizations to raise awareness about prescription drug abuse and diversion.
The spokesman said that the Rx Action Alliance is expected to be unveiled in the autumn. Previously, Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma had said it was aiming to launch the program in June.
 
Yeah for them! Well, sadly we have the clueless drug abusers to blame for half of it, stupid sue-happy people the other half ...
Regardless, we are going to have to work around this "abuse resistant" thing when it becomes a real issue...
 
Yeah, but remember a few months ago their early trials failed and they had to start over? We've got a few years and beyond likely generic versions are going to be available.
They also said that the "abuse-resistant" forms wouldn't have prevented people from snorting it.
I don't think it's going to be much of an issue and I'm sure they'll be an easy way to get around it such as dissolving the pills in water first. The encapsulated agonists aren't likely to break down and wouldn't be water soluable, so the solution could be filtered with a coffee filter if your goal was to inject it. Or you could let the solution dry and snort the remaining powder. There'd be some loss, but whatever.
When we figure it out, even if you lose half the oxycodone, it will still be great to publish all around the internet just to say "fuck you" and piss Purdue and the DEA off.
 
Originally posted by forgotten:
The term "abuse resistant" kind of reminds me of how body armor is "bullet resistant". This "abuse resistant" oxycontin may stop the 9mm class of drug users, but it won't do anything to stop the AK-47 class of drug users.
I agree with you. I don't think it will become abuse proof, just an abuse deterrent.
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If Purdue really wanted to make their drug abuse proof, they would explore something like the OROS drug delivery system. This is the type used in Concerta, among others. The capulse is rock hard, you shit the whole thing out after you take one (I have personally observed this ;) ). Anyways, in the case of Concerta, the methylphenidate is in a paste-form (doesn't crush into a powder), and the active drug is surrounded by some inactive layers of crap and then the hard outer shell. The drug drips out slowly through a hole in the capsule using the principle of osmotic pressure. Well, I'm getting off-topic, but if they wanted a less abusable oxycontin, they could have it right now.
And PhreeX, would it really bother you that much if oxycontin wasn't easily abused? I don't want to see this happen (and it probably won't ever be really unabusable), but couldn't you get your doctor to prescribe another strong opiate or see a different doctor and show him your medical history? Do you prefer oxycodone over all other obtainable scripts or would it just be difficult to get switched to something like dilaudid or OxyIR? Forgive me if I missed something, it just sounds like you couldn't find a replacement for oxycontin if it ever became unabusable.
 
Someone asked about a replacement for OC if it ever became unabuseable.. Sure.. Percolone.. No APAP ...just straight Oxycodone. Of course, it's got a mess of binders and junk in it too and doesn't come in anywhere near as high of doses. '
Which reminds me..Asa used the "Oxy is pure" line again. Oxy is far from pure...It's got talc, a couple silicons (read: SAND!), and other assorted garbage in it. Why in the bleeping hell would anyone inject this?
 
The only people that have a problem with injecting it other than Phreex are people who have never tried it.
Harmful or not, it must take an awful fucking bloody long time before it causes any remotely serious damage. I'm already to the point where my tolerance is so high I can't get a buzz off it anyways and I'm no longer injecting it anyways.
At any rate, if you shoot it, you will get a buzz. If you have a low tolerance, it's very similar to that of heroin. When you have free Oxy available, you won't really care about any damage so long as you don't drop dead tommorrow. You will keep injecting to get that buzz.
You wanna hear something else? I think it's utterly stupid someone would tell me not to inject Oxy, but then they'd go inject Dillies which turn the water funky neon colors, or they go shoot MSContin which is like 50% wax. Even my beloved heroin is usually cut with something. And on a bad day if it leaves behind some whack muddy residue.. hey, you really think I'm going to just put it down and come back tommorrow with more money?
If you are putting any non-USP not-meant-to-be-injected crap into your veins, it's not healthy, period. End of story. Who cares.
 
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I'm sorry, but there is a substantial difference between injecting street drugs (which are not typically cut with substances that are damaging to vasculature) and injecting drugs extracted from pills. The latter is much more dangerous and unwise.
YOU may not care about your health, but that doesn't mean that we are all like you. Many of us here DO give a damn. We may like to get high, but we like to minimize the harm we do to ourselves in the process.
 
Honestly, I wish OxyContin had never hit the streets in the way it did... because of it's so popular on the street, prices are too high and they drug's getting too much negitive publicity ..
Personally, OxyContin is my favorite of all drugs - and when it coems to narcotics, I feel safe in saying I have done most all of them... give me an OC over Dilaudid anyday... a 100ug Fentanyl patch gives it a good run for it's money but the problem is I could never get my doctor to get me up to that high of a dose ...
And I DO inject mine - you simply have to know how to safely, well, with minimal risk...
It's also unlikely we will see a generic - I was wrong about patent dates, they have until almost 2007 ...
 
does anyone happen to know why generic oxycontin isn't being illicitly imported from outside the US? (or maybe it has, i don't know) But i know that many contries don't adhere to united states pantent laws. i'm just suprised i haven't seen generic oxy from china or mexico or something.
 
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I'm sorry, but there is a substantial difference between injecting street drugs (which are not typically cut with substances that are damaging to vasculature) and injecting drugs extracted from pills. The latter is much more dangerous and unwise.
That's fucking bullshit. It's not uncommon to find heroin cut with brick dust, dry wall, quinine (which causes your lungs to fill with fluid), evaporated milk, sand, etc. And the other day I got some shit that turned the water muddy and left and sandlike residue.
If you're telling me any of that shit doesn't cause some damage to your veins or heart or anything else, you're out of your mind.
Not to mention that it's not at all common to find pure white crystalized heroin. Most of the better heroin is in the form of brown/tan rocks. That means the process used to manufacture it did not create a pure final product and it's left with impurities. Then it's cut again. And then mid-level or street level dealer can cut it again. I seriously doubt any of these guys go out of there way to find completely safe cuts.
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No, it's not 'fucking bullshit'. If you had read my post carefully, you would have noticed that I said that street drugs are not TYPICALLY cut with damaging cuts...yes, there are some cases of drugs cut with bad shit, but these are a MINORITY. Most cuts are either relatively harmless, or so water-insoluble that filtering through cotton eliminates them.
I don't really give a damn whether enjoy shooting up pill-extracted drugs...knock yourself out. But I object to you suggesting exceedingly dangerous habits to impressionable people on a HARM REDUCTION website.
You are an intelligent, knowledgeable, and experienced drug user. I am disappointed that you offer such reckless 'advice'.
[ 09 August 2002: Message edited by: fairnymph ]
 
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