"There is a growing recognition that minors are slow to report abuse, " said Corey Rayburn Yung, a professor at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Current methods for detecting disease in livestock are slow and open to abuse, because they rely upon farmers or vets reporting sick animals, says Marcus Doherr of the Institute of Animal Neurology at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
But as of now, abuse resistant mechanisms only apply to OxyContin-like slow release painkillers, and do not apply to short-acting analgesics, which are the most widely abused painkillers.