'less abusable' - using the term as you did e.g. route of administration is a gross Purdue marketing lie. Original formula oxycontin pills were insanely abusab

'less abusable' - using the term as you did e.g. route of administration is a gross Purdue marketing lie. Original formula oxycontin pills were insanely abusable. crushed up into ultra-fine powder very easily - like one of those sugar necklace candies. snortable and shootable. way easier to abuse than morphine which isn't super available in the US as a take home script. also to the 'powerful,' the doses prescribed were insane compared to the baseline of what was regularly prescribed before Purdue's marketing. E.g. 5mg oxycodone + acetaminophen compared to Oxy's going commonly up to 80MG in a single pill (30's were pretty standard on the street). I think they even have a 160mg but I have never actually seen in real life. That's INSANE like 240 morphine equivalent or something and likely taken at least 2x a day. This insane strength goes hand in hand with overzealous script writing. All of this was caused by Purdue's tactics. The 'OC' s (they are stamped this way) were on the market for a LONG time after Purdue was very aware of the criminal damage they were doing and the DEA and others were pushing for pill reformulation. They took forever to change to 'OP' which were less abusable at least not easily crushed and they gel up if trying to shoot (addicts will always find a way). Knowing how evil this company and family are I wouldn't be surprised if they waited a while to launch the new pill format for patent reasons but I don't know this The cycle of 'less abusive' opiate marketing has been going on for a hundred years. They are all abusable and addictive. Even maintenance opiates like buprenorphine you would be dependent on and users will still combine for instance methadone and other pills to get high.