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Posted on: March 6 2013

According to the service, which in Liège controls the drugs, a number of drug addicts would use the carboxymethylcellulose, which is used to prepare an injectable extract from methadone-gelulen

Impossible to make, precipitate using vitamin C. In this way they would recover about 15% methadone from the capsuling. < br/> Is This chemically possible and is there a defence against it?

Answer

Given CMC carboxyl groups, this is indeed chemically possible. So, toxicomanes are not only good pharmacologists but also good physico-chemists! The answer to their method is to add a non-ionogen fungus. Guar gum would be very suitable à rate of 75 mg per capsule n ° 2.