Can Opana Er Be Broken Down For Injection?

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I have someone who is taking opana er 40mg. This is the question. Can they be broken down and used intravenously? Does doing this help relieve pain faster?

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It is not safe to attempt this, since tablets have not been formulated for injection.

Tablets, especially these times released ones, contain fillers and not all of them are meant to be broken down by the human body, they are normally just expelled as waste.

However, when yo break them down and try to inject these substances, you are placing them into the body in a manner, in which, it cannot properly process them out. This creates the risk of blockages, which could lead to heart attack, stroke, or embolism.

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If they need faster pain relief, there are instant release tablets and injectable medications that they can discuss with their doctor.

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To prep an Opanna 40mg pill for injection.
First, rinse off coating from pill. 15-20 seconds under cold running water, gently rubbing with fingers. Place on heavy duty aluminium foil, or doubled over foil. Place in oven on BROIL, on highest rack (or one level under) or in toaster oven on Broil, close to the burner element. WATCH CLOSELY! Cook until top of pill begins to blacken and bubble. (2-7 minutes, depending on oven, and distance from broiler element) When top of pill is blackened and bubbling, remove and gently flip pill over. Place back in oven, (WATCH VERY CLOSELY!), until other side is lightly blackened. The other side will blacken MUCH faster than first side! Remove from oven, fold foil in half with pill slightly off-center and roll out with rolling pin, or any other flattening / rolling tool. (I use a can of Pam cooking spray, because there's no raised edge on top or bottom of can, allowing most effective flattening.) Place flattened foil in freezer for 30-60 secs at least to allow pill to harden. Open foil and peel off. Pill is now cooked and ready to begin prep for syringe.
To inject: trim off thin slivers of pill. (2-4 slivers, about .5mm wide, entire length of flattened pill, about 1in.) Cut slivers into tiny pieces, not much bigger than striper glitter. Lol The smaller, the faster they dissolve. Place 40 units of water in spoon and heat to boiling, remove from heat and add chopped up pieces of pill. Allow to sit for a few seconds while you draw up another 40 units into syringe. Gently stir with tool (I use a plastic cotton swab stick, cotton removed from both ends, gently melt one end and flatten hot plastic with fingertips, trimmed to make a flat "shovel".) until dissolved. Once pill pieces are thoroughly dissolved, add 40 more units of water (for total of 80 in spoon) and stir. Mixture should be thin enough to draw up, but thick enough to be a pain in the ass! Pre-wetting the cotton (I prefer a small piece of unused cigarette filter, no risk of getting cotton fever!) helps make drawing up easier, IMHO. Done like this, I have never had a "jelling" issue like some other kinds of meds, likemorphine. You should get 5-7 shots this way.
I hope this helps someone stay safe, and not waste valuable medicine!

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