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When oxycodone is ingested with alcohol, it can also become a lethal drug. Dangers of Snorting Oxycodone People who snort prescription opiates that come in pill form, like oxycodone, Percocet, tramadol, or suboxone, have likely built up a tolerance to it, and they seek to get it into their bodies quicker and with a stronger effect.
Because snorting leads to a greater high, it also increases your risk for overdose and has additional negative side effects, including: Chronic sinus infections Difficulty swallowing Headaches Loss or distorted sense of smell Mouth sores Nose bleeds and sores Pneumonia Sleep disorders Some people believe that snorting oxycodone is safer than injecting it with a needle, because there is no cross-contamination. Never share drug paraphernalia.
Dangers of Shooting or Injecting Oxycodone The reasons that people choose to inject oxycodone are similar to the reasons that they choose to snort it: The drug gets into their systems faster, going directly into the bloodstream.
Additionally, IV drug use comes with a lot of other risks, including: Blood clots Collapsed veins Decreased blood circulation Heart and cardiovascular infections Infectious diseases such as hepatitis and HIV Liver damage and failure Tissue damage Anyone who has resorted to injecting or snorting prescription drugs has a problem and needs to seek help for prescription drug addiction treatment in California.
Dangers of Smoking Oxycodone Another method that people use to get oxycodone quickly and strongly into their systems is crushing the drug and smoking it, sometimes straight and sometimes by mixing it with other substances such as tobacco or other narcotics. This is incredibly dangerous. That could have led people to abandon OxyContin for heroin regardless of the reformulation.
This is also just one study; future research could produce different findings. But for now, the paper suggests that the reformulation of OxyContin may have at least sped up the increase in heroin overdose deaths — perhaps enough to, in the short term, outweigh the lives saved by preventing more OxyContin overdoses.
Humphreys does not doubt that some people really did move on to heroin because of the OxyContin reformulation. He said he personally knows people who did this. But he cautioned that this does not mean the reformulation of OxyContin was a bad idea. Keep writing million scrips a year without any protections whatsoever? At some point you have to think about the future. To Humphreys, the key point in favor of the reformulation — and other interventions that make opioid painkillers harder to misuse — is that they prevent more people from getting addicted to the drugs.
After all, if the problem was that painkillers were so accessible that they made it easy for people to start on a path that ends with misusing and overdosing on heroin, then the inverse is true as well: Making opioid painkillers hard to obtain and misuse will stop people from going down a path of addiction.
On one hand, you have the current stock of opioid users who are addicted; the people in this population need treatment or they will simply find other, potentially deadlier opioids to use if they lose access to painkillers or the ability to misuse painkillers. On the other hand, you have to stop new generations of people from accessing and misusing opioids — or they will get addicted to the drugs and potentially overdose and die. Consider the example given in the study: A person got addicted to opioids by misusing OxyContin, but when the formula for the pill changed, he lost his ability to misuse the drug, so he began using heroin instead.
Part of this example shows the reformulation working as intended: The person was so burdened by the change that he felt the need to shift to heroin. But what if addiction treatment was made very accessible? So when this person hit the roadblock to misusing opioids posed by the reformulation, he could have decided that it was time to get into an addiction treatment program, instead of going to heroin.
Apply that thousands of times over, and the findings of the paper could have been very different. The reality of the US today, though, is that treatment is not accessible enough for this to be realistic. In some states, for instance, waiting periods for treatment can span weeks or even months. Lieber agreed that this is plausible. But he argued that the findings of the paper still provide a lesson on the limitations — and dangerous side effects — of well-meaning interventions.
Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all. Please consider making a contribution to Vox today to help us keep our work free for all. A person who wanted to abuse the drug could crush and then snort it, or dissolve it in liquid and inject it.
It turns into a gooey gel if it is crushed, making it almost impossible to snort or inject, the article notes. The new study included 11, people being treated at drug treatment facilities in 48 states. Two years later, 26 percent said they got high using the abuse-deterrent formulation of the drug in the month before entering treatment. Cicero acknowledged the newer version of OxyContin has helped reduce the number of people abusing the drug.
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