Does anybody know if the new formula of oxycontin is also going to hit the rest of the world, especially Europe (Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Italy)?
I am prescribed Oxycontin retard (Mundipharma, Austria), 80's and 40's. They look exactly the same as the Purdues. Does anybody know if the European pharma-companies are going to adapt the new formula for their oxycontin products? I really do hope they don't...
It would be horrible, as oxycontin isn't that of a problem in terms of abuse. In Austria/Germany for example, heroin is the #1 illegal opiate, but the quality is very very poor (0-15% purity). The #1 pharma-drug is Substitol (morphine-sulfate), which is prescribed as a substitute to heroin addicts. Subutex/Suboxone and Methadone are also prescribed, but Substitol can be shot i.v. Substitol is known as the #1 pharma drug being abused, and Mundipharma, the company that produces Substitol, doesn't do ANYTHING. Oxycontin isn't known to be abused, as it's only prescribed to patients with chronic pain, and 95% of the addicts in my country don't even know what oxycodone is. So I really hope that nothing happens to oxycontin before they changed anything with the substitol formula.
Any Germans/Austrians here in the forums?
The new oxycontin formula is said to gel up. But on forum.opiophile.org, some users wrote that Purdue or the FDA stated that about 80% of the oxycodone contained in the pill can be extracted with several liquids. Some guys extract the oxymorphone contained in Opana ER with isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol). Maybe that procedure is also possible with the new oxycontin formula, and maybe it's possible to extract the oxy with methanol, ethanol or something like that. Let's wait for the first new oxys to hit the market, then we know what ingredients are contained in the new oxycontin, then we can check the soluabilities of the different ingredients of the pills. Hopefully they aren't soluable in alcohol. I really hope. Then the oxycodone could be extracted I think.