Sentence examples for resistant to crushing from inspiring English sources
The agency said it found the reformulated Opana did prove resistant to crushing — abusers typically seek to crush or pulverize the product to release the drug's narcotic payload — but it could still be cut, ground or chewed.
But in hopes of delaying the move to generics, the makers of the brand name drugs, Purdue Pharma and Endo Pharmaceuticals, have introduced versions that are more resistant to crushing or melting, techniques abusers use to release the pills' narcotic payloads.
Ries says a bulkier shell might be more resistant to crushing by predators.
Her colleague Michael Vendrasco has shown that the microstructure of some of those early skeletons would have made them particularly resistant to crushing by predators.
Multiple regression analysis of crushing resistance revealed that shell size and shape were both significantly positively related to crushing resistance.
Experts believe the rise in heroin use may be linked to recently introduced restrictions that require manufacturers to produce tamper-resistant pills that are difficult to crush, and therefore, harder to abuse.
Instead of meaningfully scaling up effective treatment for people who became addicted to OxyContin, the major policy change was the removal of OxyContin by Purdue Pharma from the North American market in 2012 and its replacement with OxyNEO, which the company claims is tamper-resistant (i.e., harder to crush up, snort, or inject).
To give an example, after receiving a $600 million fine for misrepresenting the addictiveness of OxyContin, in 2010 Purdue Pharma reformulated the drug in a tamper-resistant case to make it more difficult to crush for snorting or injecting.
I want to crush furniture.
'Godzilla' to crush box office.
