Oxycontin Crush

OxyContin crush is a descriptive street term in that OxyContin crush is the act of pulverizing the pain relief medication OxyContin. OxyContin crush is at the center of the OxyContin abuse controversy because it is the means in which to abuse the drug. An OxyContin crush effectively bypasses the time release structure of the pill. Abusers often dissolve the protective coating in their mouth and then perform the OxyContin crush. After the OxyContin crush, the resulting powder is snorted, injected or taken orally to deliver the full force of its active ingredients all at once.

The active ingredient of OxyContin is the synthetic opiate oxycodone. Because it is a pure pharmaceutical drug, it is more potent than the street drug heroin which can have various impurities. OxyContin crush has resulted in widespread abuse and governmental drug agencies, doctors and manufacturer Purdue Pharma are all scrambling to gather more information and educate the public about the potential abuse and addiction to OxyContin.

The active ingredient oxycodone has been manufactured for many years and is found in other well-known and sometimes abused prescriptions Percocet, Vicodin and Percodan. The difference is that OxyContin contains many times the dose of oxycodone of the other drugs and the OxyContin crush delivers the dose all in one shot. With sales of $1 billion each year, its popularity is undeniable.

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Facts and figures related to OxyContin were found at The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.