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OC formula changing again? Anyone heard of this?

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So a guy I know was prescribed 80's but switched to Opana when that whole stupid OP bullshit went down. Last time I talked to him he said that his doctor mentioned something about them bringing back the old formula (or something close to it) because of all the problems with the new OP formula. Has anyone heard anything about this? Honestly I haven't heard this from anyone else, and you'd think I would have heard something somewhere, people would even be talking about it on BL. None of my other friends have ever heard of this, and I don't really think it's true...
Maybe I just heard him wrong, maybe he misunderstood his doctor?
Idk, I looked I Purdue's website and it just mentions how they changed the formula in 2010, doesn't say anything about it being changed again in 2011 or 2012.

Has anyone else heard anything about this or is he completely full of shit?
 
Probably just junkie talk. Didn't the FDA essentially say that all time release opioids have to be designed to be more abuse proof?

Not to mention Purdue being sued over 700 million for lying about the abuse potential of OC.
 
Its quite obvious that most patients have switched to either opana or roxi since the OP formula replaced the OC. Since Endo makes opana, and there are generics for roxicodone, I'm sure that Perdue is working on something to get some of their business back.

I haven't heard anything about them reformulating the drug again though, but if they do I'm sure it would be hard for them to do it without people saying it is being done for the wrong reasons.
 
I think it's just wishful thinking. Perdue changed the formula because their patent was about to expire. They withdrew the original OC, said it was for safety reasons so no generics could replace it. A side benefit was lower abusability, but it doesn't eliminate abuse and addiction, so doctors are still wary of prescribing it. I predict the new Oxycontin will go the way of Talwin NX, too much stigma to prescribe, not abusable enough for anyone to want it. Buy Endo stock.
 
It costs big bucks to develop a new Time Release Mechanism. For example Opana's ER has a TimeX mechanism which cost hundreds of millions of dollars to develop and per-fect. I would assume it's more cost effective to discontinue a product and redevelop it from the ground up.
 
This thread is pretty useless. I just had a simple question and I guess it's not true, so fuck it. If OC ever does change again, I'm sure we'll hear a lot about it then.
 
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