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Can You Abuse Pills By Rubbing Them On The Skin?
I recently heard a rumor that someone was licking pills, possibly opiates, and rubbing the moistened pills on the skin for trans-dermal absorption. I've never heard of this and I can't find anything on it. I even checked with a 10 year veteran of drug and alcohol treatment who never heard of this. Is this just a overzealous reporter is or this something new?
Don't forget that there are abused transdermal drugs, namely fentanyl, one of the reasons why I'm concerned that this may be legit.
4 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Skin doesn't absorb stuff well.
He would need to rub tons of the pills on, in order to get the same effect as taking one.
I've seen an experiment done in which the person lay in a bath filled with spirit alcohol for hours.
The absorption was only to the equivalent of one (or less) beer.
There's the proof.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It could work but you would have to do a lot of rubbing. Your skin is the biggest organ in your body and it will absorb most anything that is on it...
But who knows..
- 1 decade ago
Yes this is pill abuse and I don not think the pill society will take it well. Someone has to stop abusing these poor pills before they take all of their wonderful remedies for common ailments and leave to fight off colds by ourselves!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I don't think the pills consider it abuse. I think they like being rubbed on skin.
