Bue Pill with CCSS on it

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I have a received some pills from Costa Rica that are light bill with CCSS imprinted on it.  I noticed that there was several posts discussing if this pill was in fact hydrocodone 10/325.

Has anyone out there found any new information about this or is it a total scam?

Thanks 

 





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i think that there hasnt

i think that there hasnt been any real progress made in the identfication of this drug.

it is obviously being sold to people as hydrocodone with apap but that is about it.

until someone gets the pill tested (which will be expensive) then no one will no for sure except those who actually make the pill.


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round blue pill with ccss

  I, too, received these round blue pills from Costa Rica. They were supposed to be hydrocodone 750. I doubt it very much`. I wish there was a way to find out for sure. I know that I won't trust this particular sales merchant again...product very expensive and not at all what I expected it to be.Anyone else have this aggravating experience?



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Thanks for your reply.  I

Thanks for your reply.  I agree wtih this sales merchant was more than aggravating and they have the nerve to keep calling me!  It took over 2 months for me to get these fake pills.  I might look into having them analyzed at a lab but I am not sure how much it would cost.  Will let you know if I find anything out.  Just curious, did you try one?  I am hesitant to put one in my month since I do not know what it is made up of.

 




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blue pill with CCSS on it- from Costa Rica

 I wouldn't be concerned about trying a few of the pills. I had some and didn't suffer any negative effects. Unfortunately I have enough of a tolerance at this point that I can't be sure I should have been effected by the dose I took. I'm thinking it's possible that they are in fact hydrocodone, but perhaps 5mg instead of 10, or some such thing. In case they are also very high in APAP I really don't want to try enough to insure a result. 

     Just to reiterate what the pills I'm refering to look like, they are about 1/2 inch diameter by 3/16 thick with CCSS on one side and a score on the other. And blue.

 




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Blue Tablet Imprinted CCSS

Please see the other thread for more comments about this pill.

Please, someone, get us a picture or scan of the tablet - and also the measurements (diameter and thickness).

Thanks.Smile


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Blue tablet imprinted with CCSS

 I'm a bit confused about how the posts for this subject are being displayed. It appears there are two different threads on this. On the other one I posted some measurements of the blue pills in question.



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You're right, there are two

You're right, there are two threads going.  Click the link Kirby provided.  There's no real way to merge the two, but we can link to them. 

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Blue Tablet Imprinted CCSS

We can't merge the threads, but here is the link to the other thread:

http://www.pharmer.org/node/4752

And, timothy11, thank you for your measurements:

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I can give some measurements. I get .52" in diameter(13.2mm) by a hair over 3/16" thick(4.8mm). The color is light blue, similar to that diazapam. There is one score across the pill on one side an the CCSS on the other side

 

The tablet is certainly not very small. It's pretty big, so it sounds plausible that it's an acetaminophen combo - combined with codeine or dihydrocodeine or maybe even something else.

I really don't think the CCSS tablet contains hydrocodone. To my knowledge, no other country in the world uses hydrocodone combined with other ingredients. But APAP (acetaminophen or paracetamol) are very common combined with dihydocodeine or codeine outside the US.

It won't help us ID your tablet, but we would really appreciate a picture so we can help others in the future. Thanks.


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blue pill with CCSS on it- from Costa Rica

   I just noticed the camera icon on the response window. Seems pretty clear how to post a photo. Now I need to take one and transfer it to this computer. I'll try to do this soon.

    Just a bit more info. One thing is to emphasize that the pill weight info that I gave in my earlier posts was decimal data about the weight in grams. I believe the number was about .733 grams. I hadn't noted that fact in that post.

   Also I can report that having tried a few pills before in quantities too small to be sure what to expect, I tried a larger dose now that I have confidence that I won't have a severe response. Plus I reduced my normal intake the last couple of days in order to reduce my tolerance to opiods. I was at the point where I was getting a bit of a runny nose plus a slight supression of energy levels that I normally connect with the beggining of withdrawal symptoms. Taking the blue pills eliminated the drip, brought up my mood a bit, especially after a small meal. Still not perfect evidence, but between this and the taste of the things I'd say there is likely some amount of opiod in these things. Perhaps just codeine. It does seem likely that I'd get a good deal stronger response if they were 10 mg hydrocodone, so I really doubt that they could be more than 5 mg if they are hydrocodone at all. From Kirby's doubts about the possibility of foreign hydrocodone/APAP combos I'd lean towards codeine. Maybe 30 mg.

   I still wouldn't rule out hydrocodone, but I don't have any way of judging just how much of an expert Kirby is on the matter of foreign production of an APAP/hydrocodone pill. It seems as though any foreign country might well have it's own developing pharmaceutical industry, and there are an awful lot of such  countries. Perhaps you are in the business?

   To be more certain I'd have to spend a few days with little or not pain meds, then try these again. I'd probably be able to judge better then, though I don't think I'd ever be certain about the difference between codeine or hydrocodone or some other opioid I'm unfamiliar with. I do think I can say that anyone with these who has any tolerance at all for opiods and acetaminiphen could probably safely take a few of these with virtually no chance of ill effects, barring some sort of allergic reaction.




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Very Interesting

Hi timothy11,

As far as I know, hydrocodone is generally not marketed outside of the US.

Exceptions are that Canada distributes it in syrup form only (with additives) for cough suppression and it is marketed in Europe for coughs (no other additives). That's all I've ever seen.

Your pill is not a liquid and your pill is way too big to be only hydrocodone without other additives.

Many other countries market APAP with dihydrocodeine or codeine. These combos are quite common.

The blue color is strange. But I really don't think it's hydrocodone.


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blue pill with CCSS on it- from Costa Rica

   Well of course I'm inclined to take you word for the unlikelyhood of a hydrocodone/APAP combo coming from Costa Rica, though I can't help but be a bit curious how someone would learn such information unless perhaps they were very familiar with the international pharmaceutical industry, which from you're level of confidence I'm guessing you are.  My own experience jibes with what you say as far as a codeine/APAP combo being fairly common. I've run into those from both Mexico and Europe, all in different shapes from what is most common here in the U.S.  Based on the fact that I seem to have had a clear opiod like reaction from these blue pills it seem then that the best guess is that these are simply 30mg codeine with probably 500 or more mg APAP. Those would be close enough in effect to hydrocodone that a user might well not be sure they'd been ripped off, and would explain why the scammers would ship them rather than just take the money and run.

    I'm guessing it isn't the dihydrocodeine only because I have had those in the past and they didn't seem to have quite the same euphoric effect that I think I've gotten just a touch of from these blue things. I can't be sure though. The only way to tell would be if I was completely off any opiod for a good chunk of time, then tried 2 or 3.

    Thanks for all the feedback from me and on behalf of some of the other posters. You seem to be the best informed on this matter.




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blue pill

  hey guys i was just surfing the net and came upon this thread. i live in costa rica and if there was some way for me to get hydo down here it would be news to me. the mystery blue pill sounds to me like a generic tylonol 3 they sell down here. it is a common over the counter drug selling for about a buck a pill (you can actually buy meds here by the pill), but the blue ones are the cheapos, i think they are about 40 cents american or 200 colones a peice.

 




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Thank You!

Hi molly,

Thank you very much for the pill ID for CCSS.

Here is the image phisher uploaded sometime ago. We might as well make this thread complete with pic:

Submitted by phisher on April 2, 2007 - 8:38am.
CCSS

This picture is courtesy of turtle58 on IDTP

Is there anyway we can confirm that the blue CCSS tablet is acetaminophen and codeine? Can you give us a manufacturer? I definitely believe you but would like to have some 'official' type of info, especially since this pill has been talked about for so long.Laughing

Thank you so much for your help. And any other info will certainly be appreciated.Smile


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blue pill

now you got me alittle curious. im in the town of heredia, and tomorrow i will head down to one of the local farmacias and buy one.we can verify for sure  along with what the brand name is. it looks like i remember but honestly the one time i bought them i dont remember the ccss on it.

btw, about a year ago i bought some vicodin down here from a fellow i contacted thru an online site. the whole thing was pretty shady and basically any anyone here selling american opiates is doing it against local laws. i cannot even have my meds sent here by mail legally and the tico (costa rican) authorities open packages alot looking for things that need to be taxed 

  ciao, molly




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well since i am up late and

well since i am up late and cant sleep. one more thing. costa ricans have  wonderful near free public access to health care if they need it . it is no coincidence they have a longer life expectancy then americans. not bad for a small realitivly poor country!!  anyways the public angency in charge of it all is the Caja Costarricanse de Seguro Social, or CCSS for short.r