Heh and just as I thought it'd be wearing off, I'd picked up my meds, and after a day and night using just 80mg oxycodone in total, in the form of 10mg IR capsules, and two 5mg nitrazepam tablets, one yesterday in the morning, the other the end of yesterday night, the already boosted effect of that guzzled down lot of beer (about 9-11 pints) got kicked into OVERDRIVE after I took my antiseizure dose of chlormethiazole, the strongly barbiturate-like sedative-hypnotic as well as antiseizure drug, which even above all other depressants, has a specific interaction with alcohol of it's own, inhibiting alcohol dehydrogenase, causing plasma levels to stay stable longer (of alcohol) and peak higher, in combination with the initial 40mg dose of oxy, and when I got home, a shot made with 8x30mg units of morphine sulfate, first not only of the day, but for two days and a night, when just beginning to feel the very first effects of physical withdrawal after losing almost ALL my oxycodone rx, and getting an emergency 3-day supply, reluctantly granted me from my GP after a father and son tidyup of the front room for my uncle to come round, I've not seen them since, and I CAN'T have forgotten and simply used them all, that'd be over half a GRAM of oxycodone, in addition to up to 1-gram (yes I meant gram not milligram) IM or IV shots of morphine, that was SUCH a relief.
Might have ONE more beer, while I begin the drudge-work of conducting melting point tests in triplicate upon the latest batch of a certain recrystallized phenylnitroalkene, Nothing dangerous to go wrong, it's just watching a thermometer in the oil bath of a Thiele tube, with a microcapillary sample tube containing a few milligrams of sample material slowly creep up until it melts, watching with a magnifying glass)
Time to go prepare the sample tubes, load fresh oil into the Thiele tube, and find a couple of kitchen bag wire-ties to strap the tubes to the thermometer, grab the argon tank to purge the Buchner funnel containing my main batch after each extraction of a few mg per tube, run three tubes, average over the three results and hope that my sample melts at that sought for 64-66 'C range. Hoping it'll be right, so I can avoid another recrystallization and purification, and use what I've purified, hoping it's right as it is, before introducing it to 5-6fold molar excess of sodium borohydride in anhydrous isopropanol, before it gets chucked into a bath of acid, iron metal as fine, fine dust, and catalytic ferric chloride to provide the sought end product.
