You have to snort Opana, if you swallow that you are wasting an awesome pill. The oral bioavailibility is terrible on Opana. I would either just crush the pill as it is, or shave the yellow coating off with a knife/razor and then crush it and grind it to as fine a powder as possible. Opana is very strong when snorted, that one pill is at least as strong as two 80mg oxycontin's. I dont know what you mean by "8 to 10 vic's". I would tell someone with "low to no" tolerance to start at only 5mg's of opana. I dont think you should snort that entire pill if you are previously just a vicoden user. If you can take 50mg's of hydrocodone(vic's) in a single time then I would tell you to start at 10mg's of Opana. I dont know how many mg's of hydrocodone you use to give a true gauge on how much Opana you can handle.