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Hi mytheidi, The OC 40 is the old formula of Oxycontin. Perdue, is the makers of Oxycontin. The FDA requested the drug company to find a way to make Oxycontin so that the drug abusers could no longer crush them to {snort them up their noses, or shoot them up in a needle}. Well Perdue now makes the OP 40's. They have a substance in them now that make them uncrushable. If you try to crush one, it will turn into a "pancake" but stay together. I have also heard that a lot of people who take their medication the way they are supposed to, are having problems with this new Oxycontin. In fact, my doctor is so upset with the results his patients are having with it, that he is no longer prescribing it to any of his patients. He took all his patients off it and put them on something else. He tried my husband and me on Opana ER's first, but we were not able to take them because they caused us to have headaches and terrible stomach problems... same symptoms that people are complaining about with the new Oxycontins. So this month when we saw him, he took us off the Opana ER and put us on the Duragesic Patches. Wow, what a difference! I feel so much better, like my old self again... I heard you can still get the generic 40mg Oxycontins from Walgreens, but that it's a pain in the butt to get your doctor to write for the old formula and to have Walgreens order them for you... Good Luck...