Why is it dangerous to snort painkillers?

Snorting painkillers is considered a form of prescription drug abuse. In other words, you're using the prescription drug in a way it wasn't meant to be used. In 2014, nearly 1.6% of the U.S. read more

Snorting painkillers, I’ll assume the commonly-abused and abusable opioids here: [Much less notably] this act can be harmful to the sinuses for all the fillers that usually bind painkillers together, and the fact that they’ll only slowly dissolve and drip down the throat after sitting all clumped up for a while. read more

But because painkillers were never designed to be insufflated, it's hard to predict how snorting painkillers might affect you. No matter how much you believe you are in control of your painkiller use, snorting these dangerous drugs robs you of control, and can yield deadly unanticipated side effects. read more

Snorting painkillers is considered a form of prescription drug abuse. In other words, you’re using the prescription drug in a way it wasn’t meant to be used. In 2014, nearly 1.6% of the U.S. population, ages 12 and older, used prescription painkillers without a prescription, 1 and there’s a good chance that many of these users snorted the drugs at some point. read more