The "New Formula" when crushed picture looks exactly like the Malinckrodt (sp?) generic oxycodone tabs when you try to crush those.
The Malinckrodt generics have been using this exact same system for the last few years. They are a PAIN to grind with a grater. But I found that crushing them with something hard, and then parachuting the crushed pill got me WAY high. And I usually insufflate them.
I also noticed this article doesn't say anything about smoking the pills... I wonder if they are doing anything to combat that. I've never tried smoking the generics, haven't had them in a while.
If you want to see exactly what these new Purdue OC's are like, pick up some of these:
Same thing, I'm almost positive.
Can you still chew them up?
They gel up and get stuck in your teeth and it's fucking GROSS. I wouldn't recommend it at all.
Like I said, crush as much as you can, put into a paper towel, parachute. Best possible way to abuse orally with these new ones.
Also, someone else can shed more light on this, but there was a method for making them not gel up when they hit liquid by putting them in the microwave. From what I understand it's some kind of wax matrix woven into the pill that can be circumvented by microwaving the pills first
We've been hearing about Purdue reformulating Oxy for a long time now and it's never happened. I don't think OP's friend has the correct date, there are plenty of rumors going around, always have been always will be.
Also, this interesting quote from the slideshow:
The reformulated 10 -40 mg tablets would be available before the reformulated 60 and 80 mg tablets.
So it will still be a while until we see our 80's being made "abuse proof." most other forms of oxycodone have SOME sort of mechanism from the manufacturer that makes them harder to abuse. Purdue has done NOTHING about this, except talk about it, for YEARS. Why? Because they don't want to! Every time Oxycontin gets mentioned in the news, that is free advertising, every time a Doc prescribes OC (for a valid reason or not, Purdue doesn't care) they get paid. So why would Purdue want to make their drug abuse proof and lose half of their customers potentially? Ourdue does NOT mind how easily their product is abused. Shit, we can't even have more than 10mg of Hydrocodone in a pill in the US withouot it being accompanied with 375mg+ of APAP, but Purdue gets away with putting 80mg of
OXYCODONE in a pill with NO other active ingredients?!
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee
May 5, 2008
This presentation/article is two years old, and these new formulations are still not on the market.
Also the only things on Google having anything to do with Oxycontin and the date "July 1st" are this thread, and two others on Topix talking about the same thing. No official news, no reputable resources, nothing. With all the negative press that Oxy has been getting for killing people/getting people hooked, you better believe that Purdue is going to want to announce this ASAP to as many people as they can so that everyone will say, "Awww, how great of Purdue! Stop those stupid addicts in their tracks!" (No pun intended.)
Remember when Purdue was supposedly putting capsicum powder in OC tabs? To prevent them from being snorted or shot, but when taken orally, like you are supposed to, they would have no negative effects. I think the rumor was that was happening a year or two ago, and that still hasn't happened either.
I'll bet you an 80mg pill that we still have our normal green OC 80's by the end of this year.