OP Oxycontin – Purdue Pharma’s Solution To Fast Growing Addiction

Oxycontin is a slow-release opiate-like analgesic that is used to relieve moderate to severe pain. Oxycontin tablets have a special coating that allows the slow release of medication. This allows a person to experience twelve hours of constant, stable pain relief. This powerful medication needs a prescription because it’s highly addictive and thus can be abused very easily.

Just last year, Oxycontin was reformulated and renamed by Purdue Pharma so as to prevent people from abusing the drug. Oxycontin addiction has skyrocketed in the recent years and Purdue Pharma elected to change the drug as a solution to the growing problem of addiction. OP Oxycontin was the company’s response to the soaring challenge. OP is an acronym for Oxycontin Purdue. So when a pharmacy, for example, reorders this medication, they will receive the new, reformulated version OP tablets. It would be impossible for them to get the old Oxycontin tablets because Purdue Pharma has stopped producing the old version of the drug last year.

OP Oxycontin bears the stamp “OP” to differentiate it from the previous generic version, OC Oxycontin. Both OC and OP Oxycontin contain the same active ingredient, oxycodone. OP Oxycontin, on the other hand, has been changed so as to prevent incorrect drug usage by breaking, crushing, chewing, or dissolving. Those people who are addicted to Oxycontin break, crush, chew, and dissolve the tablet in order to experience a heroin-like high. However, these individuals will no longer be able to easily abuse these tablets because additional binders have been incorporated into the drug to make it tamper proof.

OP Oxycontin is way more troublesome to abuse than the previous OC Oxycontin. Purdue Pharma has made sure that the new tablets would be very hard to chew and almost impossible to break. You might want to try to cut one OP Oxycontin tablet with a razor to see for yourself. Expect to be sorry though because according to reports, some Oxycontin-addicted individuals could not break the tablet no matter how hard they try, thus wanting their money back.

Today, Purdue Pharma is still doing some research about the effectiveness of the newly formulated OP Oxycontin tablets, as directed by the Food and Drug Administration. OP Oxycontin is a fresh new drug in the market and only time can determine if this new drug is indeed the answer to Oxycontin addiction.