Comments on: An OxyContin That Addicts Can’t Abuse?

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:01:50 +0000

What was the point of that little “embalming fluid” anecdote (urban legend, actually)? What psychoactive chemical were the kids after? Something that would come out of solution and precipitate on tobacco - then could be combusted, yielding smoke containing enough active ingredient for adequate pulmonary absorption…?

What was the point of your posting? Just wondering….

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:10:33 +0000

To M Helm, MD
You are correct. As a Director of Pharmacy in a psych hospital I was called one
day by the local police dept and asked what is in embalming fluid? I was
able to tell them and asked, why do you ask? The police said they found a
couple of teenagers going to the back of a funeral home and collecting small
amounts of the fluid left in thrown out containers. The police found out that
the kids would get a small baking tin, fill it with tobacco and soak the tobacco
with the embalming fluid and bake the tobacco in an oven. Then the kids
would roll the treated tobacco into cigarette papers and smoke it.

Purdue may of taken a couple of years to develop this new form of Oxycontin,
but I am sure it will take drug abusers just a couple of months to get around
it.

By: M Helm, MD

M Helm, MD — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:48:25 +0000

The chemistry skills of the drug abusing population should never be underestimated. In my state, there are any number of folks who may have barely graduated from high school who can literally make gt 99% pure product from things like household drain cleaner and pseudephedrine.

If we could only get them working on biofuels from cellulose…

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By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:54:55 +0000

Good for them