Although the active ingredient, oxycodone, was supposed to be released gradually for patients who needed round-the-clock pain relief, some users found ways to crush, break or dissolve the tablets so that the narcotic could be taken in a big, potentially fatal dose.
Commonly used aggregates include sand, crushed or broken stone, gravel (pebbles), broken blast-furnace slag, boiler ashes (clinkers), burned shale, and burned clay.
These coils tighten until respiration is impossible and suffocation results, but very seldom are bones crushed or broken.
His blue-collar characters are crushed by broken marriages, financial problems, and failed careers, but they are often unable to understand or even articulate their own anguish.
The injuries sustained to the head, neck and front limbs of the animals are therefore serious, and can include crushed and broken bones and torn muscles.
Other rocks are breccias — crushed and broken rock fragments, fused by the heat from impact collisions and ejected from the resulting crater.
President Bush, using some of his most urgent language on the issue so far, said during brief comments in the Rose Garden that no progress could be made on the political front "until the cycle of violence is crushed and broken".
"We are pressed on every side by troubles, but not crushed and broken.
With increasing pretreatment severity, vascular bundles displayed more pronounced alterations to tissues, such as sucrose-storing Par; many cells were crushed and broken.
Some medications are not supposed to be crushed or broken.
