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by wastewaste 3096 days ago
because of renewed formular? I'm no pharmacist nor chemist, but my impression with drugs is that the popular names and actual composition are two different things. All they need is approval and if it helps relieve or avoid addiction I'm sure a minor change in, I don't know, isomery or adding a tiny functional extra tail to a big molecule doesn't preclude approval.
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It was generic Oxycodone. No name brand, no fancy time release, in both aforementioned cases. The first being in 2011.