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So I'll give you credit for trying. In fact, some of what you said is absolutely correct!
But to be quite frank, much of what you're doing is talking out your *ss.
Perhaps my tutorial here will clear things up for you a bit, since I can tell it's important to you that you come across as 'informed'.
FIRST AND FOREMOST I must correct you:
NOBODY. And I mean NOBODY. EVER. EVER. EVER...
Takes VICODIN tablet.
Crushes it up.
And snorts it to their head.
TWICE.
Let alone 'thousands and thousands' of times.
ESPECIALLY not someone who is already an Oxycontin snorter.
Particularly not one with the connections, at least semi-legit pain problems, multiple doctors, and most importantly MILLIONS of DOLLARS, that Limbaugh has.
Now I'll take the time to explain this whole thing to you.
Once you have developed a habit with Oxys PERIOD, the ONLY TIME you fuck around with POS nappy ol' Vicodin is when you are biding your time trying to not get sick before the REAL DRUGS show up. And for a guy like Limbaugh, I seriously doubt he ever had to wait too long, and very rarely at that. And when people take Vicodin, EVEN big ol' POS junkies like Limbaugh, Myself, and a whole bunch of my friends and relatives, they EAT THEM. PERIOD.
The 'Gold Standard' of the Oxycontin world is the green 80mg 'fat boy' as we call them here in Cali. This dose of essentially PURE Oxycodone is the equivalent of 16 (SIXTEEN) Percodan or Percocet tablets in terms of the dope content, yet, it is maybe 25% larger than a Dramamaine pill, or a chewable childrens aspirin. It's less than HALF the size of a Percodan or Percocet, and probably about 33% the size of your typical 5/500 Vicodin. It's really pretty small, believe me.
Now, Oxycodone is a drug which is inherently about 1.5x the strength of Hydrocodone and a features a much nicer buzz ... that's why (surprise!) Percocet is a schedule II triplicate instead of schedule III (not DEA tracked) like Vicodin! It's basically like the difference between $30 an 1/8oz weed and $50 an 1/8 weed, put it to you that way... You could take double the hydro, just like you could double up your bonghits on the $30 shit, but it ain't gonna be the SAME, you feel me?
When crushed, a fat boy yields two nice size lines, combined they are roughly equal in volume to 1/4 gram of cocaine. Sizable rails, but entirely 'doable' one in each nostril. It is in NO WAY unpleasant to snort. It's like it was MADE to be snorted in fact. It doesn't burn, dry-out, or sting your nostrils, it has no odor to speak of, and the drip is a not-at-all unpleasant side effect - far less noxious than any of your typical nose drugs like coke or crystal. No coincidence that people also chew them up and swallow them. They don't even taste particularly bad to crunch up in your mouth, I've done it many many times, sometimes without a chaser. Never slammed anything before though, EVER, and in fact, slamming oxy's is an extremely rare practice. If you're gonna slam, you do real junk, it's made for that method. Oxys ... uh... not so much.
To recap: TWO LINES, reasonably sized, pleasant to snort, EACH ONE contains 40mg oxycodone and little else, which is the equivalent of 12 vicodins (1.5x40mg/5mg) or 8 percocets (40mg/5mg). I used to do this 3x a day for years. Sometimes more.
This sounds right up the ally of the amount Limbaugh was doing, right, assuming someone was doing the conversion of 80mg Oxy=16 percocets, which clearly they WERE because otherwise dude would be DEAD (well, some people could actually do 33x20mg OC tablets a day, but no way 40mg or 80mg OCs. Even with 20's, that's... whew, that's just too many unless you're really like 25-year hardcore junkie). You followin' me so far?
I hope so :)
Now, hopefully you understand the maths here, cause if you do, it shouldn't be too difficult to grasp the idea that, for all intents and purposes, Vicodin is simply NOT A SNORTABLE DRUG. Oh, sure, maybe to some teenager who's experimenting with shit the first time, they might TRY doing it that way, but...
Here's the thing, remember the size of the pills I was referring to before? A Vicodin tablet is...a honkin' horsepill, quite frankly. It contains acetaminophen and hydrocodone in a ratio of 100 TO 1. 500mg tylenol, 5mg Hydrocodone. When you crush that horsepill up, you find yourself staring at a pile that looks like about a GRAM of cocaine would look. It's easily 4x the amount of powder of an 80mg oxycontin. And that's ONE vicodin. Now, doing the maths here, I snort one vicodin, it makes 8 lines instead of 2 for an OC80. And the OC80, as I showed above, equals about 24 vicodin in terms of 'drug' so, lets see that'd be 4x24=96. In order to match buzz for buzz, I have to do 96 (that's NINETY SIX, correct) LINES of Vicodin tablets (24 ENTIRE horsepills up my nose, yes) to get the equivalent dose as I get snorting my ONE OC80.
Now, besides that simple math, you have to couple in the following reality: Snorting Tylenol (basically what you're doing sniffing a Vicodin) is somewhere on the 'pleasantness' scale between sniffing a line of ground up chalk, and a line of the green crusty shit that forms on the top of the terminals on your car battery. IOW, you figure it out VERY QUICKLY the first time you make the mistake of insufflating 500Mg of acetaminophen in order to extract the measly 5mg of hydrocodone out of it. You figure it out quickly that using you nasal membranes instead of your stomach lining for this task is a NOT a good idea ... as you proceed to go screaming to the bathroom and start madly sniffing water droplets off the tips of your fingers going 'oh...my...god...what the FUCK was I THINKING just now?!?"
After that first time, I PROMISE YOU, you eat vicodin from then on. And if you have shit for brains you realize that you can't take 64 vicodin a day for very long without DYING, let alone wrecking your hearing (the studies that show that effect, by the way, are actually quite inconclusive. As you admit, that problem, if it DOES exist, is solely due to the acetaminophen, NOT the dope itself.
Yet, the fact is, you actually have NO IDEA how much vicodin (and hence tylenol) Rush was taking, do you?
I can tell you for a fact that EVERY OC addict I HAVE EVER KNOWN (and that is quite a few people) only takes Vicodin occasionally, and in minimal doses ONLY when needed for real pain or to stave off dopesickness. All of us junkies know that if we tried to replace our OC intake with Vicodin (mg per mg equivalency) we would destroy our livers. Not only that, but, street values, vicodin is actually more expensive in most instances, so it makes absolutely no sense to use it unless we absolutely have to.
Now, to rebuff one last point you attempt to make above, I know MANY PEOPLE who are LEGITIMATELY PRESCRIBED 3 or 4 and even 5 80mg oxycontin tablets a day (again, each of those = 16 percocets in a 12hour time release form if taken whole). Some of these people, I made very very good friends with, if you catch my drift. My dad, in fact, who has been on Oxycontin since 2000 due to massive legitimate pain problems, gets just under that amount now, but when he's in real bad shape, he's been upped to as much 320mg a day, or 4x80mg by his doctor. It's not that uncommon if you have a nice doctor and legit problems and aren't worried about taking opiates the rest of your life, as my dad fits all three categories. So, your assertion that taking 33 pills a day makes you 'clearly' a recreational user is totally bull-pucky my friend. Even if Oxy and Hydro were = in strength, that's still only 2 pills of 80mg Oxycontin a day.
The only thing you're actually correct about is the abuse profile of Oxycontin. It's the STRAIGHT DOPE, of course it's gonna get abused. Much as I hate Rush Limbaugh, whether I myself was a junkie or not, I'm not going to condemn him for needing/taking or even enjoying opiates. Our bodies are physiologically designed to get addicted to opiates if we take them on a regular basis . We have 'devices' on the surface of certain types of nerve cells throughout our bodies that are MEDICALLY, technically referred to as opiate-receptors for godsake, and opiates function chemically identically to our own natural 'feel-good' chemicals called endorphins.
Given that it is literally impossible to take opiate drugs for any substantial length of time and not develop physical dependence on them, and they are the best pain-killers science has come up with (how bout that, it's derived from a natural source they figured out worked for this purpose thousands of years ago ...), addiction/dependence is to be expected, tolerated, and understood as a side-effect of this type of drug.
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