Expired Oxycodone? (Page 3)

I found 4 year old expired oxycodone in my medicine cabinet and I would like to know if its still safe to take? I don't know much about medicine so I'll just write what the label says: OXYCODONE W/APAP 5/325 TAB MCK subsituted for percocet and the pill has a 512 stamped on it?

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I have a few bottles of oxycodone 5mg with various expiration dates in the past (e.g. 3/18/2015)... Are these usable?

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Re: David (# 11)

I beg to add a different perspective. There are three primary reasons virtually all medications come with a short expiration date. 1) they are required by the FDA to provide a date. They keep it as short as possible to minimize their testing costs. They don't want to wait 1, 2, 5... years to test it. 2) Their lawyers want it as short as possible to help limit liability. And 3) They would rather sell you new pills whenever possible.

This doesn't mean that meds last longer than the date says. It just means there is no testing done for any longer time. The expiration date is generally an arbitrarily short amount of time.

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Re: jon dunst (# 2)

And your expertise on the subject is??? I always love it when someone goes on about a subject with which they are clearly unqualified to give anything more than a subjective opinion as opposed to an informed answer.

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