TEK - CWE gone wrong

[TheNewLeft]

SWIM lives in Canada....SWIM has done CWE on every conceivable brand of 222s and Tylenol 1s and regardless of the various brands, sizes, costs, fillers and binders the process is always the same.
Smash pills into powder....mix powder into warm water....let solution cool....watch the APAP/Aspirin sink to the bottom of the glass...filter the solution through coffee filters....
Today SWIM goes to shoppers drug mart....and finds that they have switched their generic brand of 222s from “Life” brand to something called “Paxis C2 – Codeine Buffered”. The only difference seems to be each pill has slightly less aspirin than usual...which is fine by me....so SWIM purchases these slightly more expensive pills and goes to work...
When SWIM opens the package the pills are BRIGHT RED circular tablets with a chalky exterior. They smash normal....but then when he mixes them with water the whole process has a nervous breakdown. The pills red powder doesn`t sink to the bottom, the mixture looks like some sort of toxic kool-aide and when SWIM stirs the solution the powder starts to rise to the top of the glass and foams over like one of those grade 3 fake PH volcano experiments.
Has anyone experimented with these before ? IS IT POSSIBLE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES HAVE FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE OTC CODEINE UN-ABUSABLE? IS IT POSSIBLE ONE OF THESE COMPANIES HAS ACTUALLY PREFORMED A GOOGLE SEARCH ON THE WORDS "CODEINE" and "water soluble"!?



COULD IT BE?

[5150]

Anything is possible.

5150 added 11 Minutes and 41 Seconds later...

Some possibilities for faster filtration are inside.
http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/sho...&highlight=CWE

[RoboCodeine7610]

Swim has never encountered this problem, although he doesn't think that it would be in the pharmaceutical company's best interest to reduce abuse.

Weather this was done to prevent abuse or not, you obviously need to switch to a different brand.

[malsat]

Can you give us a list of the inactive ingredients? It sounds like they're just normal effervescent 'water soluble' tablets.

[honourableone]

Originally Posted by malsat

Can you give us a list of the inactive ingredients? It sounds like they're just normal effervescent 'water soluble' tablets.

Surely if they were effervescent it would say so on the box and the pills would be huge? Then again, if they "foams over like one of those grade 3 fake PH volcano experiments" when they're in water, they probably would if taken orally as well, so I can't think of any other explanation.

[davestate]

Originally Posted by honourableone

Surely if they were effervescent it would say so on the box and the pills would be huge? Then again, if they "foams over like one of those grade 3 fake PH volcano experiments" when they're in water, they probably would if taken orally as well, so I can't think of any other explanation.

In the UK, codis 500, the only aspirin/codeine pill available, is effervescent. It comes in a small box, and the pills are small too, much smaller than effervescent co-codamol. SWIYou could mistake them, and they don't fizz much at all.

Word of warning, effervescent tablets have insane amounts of sodium in them, some have upto 400mg's of sodium per tablet! Think of SWIyour kidneys.