Is vicodin being vilified and unavailable

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Hydrocodone bitartrate or Vicodin or Norco was a PREVIOUS schedule III NARCOTIC.It WAS Recheduled to the schedule II category.(no refills) was it necessary?

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  • tch43436SensuousPantyhose
    5 years ago

    Some are of the opinion that your body belongs to you. The powers that be would like to protect you from cradle to grave. I don't want their protection. I neither will comply with their archaic unreasonable rules and regulations. Live and let live.I can't be jailed into compliance, beaten into submission,starved into obedience, I would rather be dead than comply into a corrupt society that is viscious and cares little for those individuals that are deprived of basic human needs and enrichment of their own pockets at the expense of the miserable people without hope.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    5 years ago

    aside from the opioid thang the problem with this drug is that if abused to have an opioid effect one must also take a near lethal dosea acetaminophen

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    • tch43436SensuousPantyhose
      5 years ago

      Acetaminophen is toxic in doses exceeding 4,000 mg in a 24h period in a healthy liver.

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    • tch43436SensuousPantyhose
      5 years ago

      ACETAMINOPHEN was lowered to 325mg .Hepatic toxicity occurs after a 4,000mg daily maximum of this prostoglan. Zohydro,a new formula has no acetaminophen.The problem is of the combination of ETOH with the Tylenol.
      FURTHERMORE, Soma,tramadol,was put into a CIV.

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  • xxLucifer
    5 years ago

    Vicodin isn't being vilified. Adderall is a schedule II drug and that is being given to lots of kids. For a drug to be considered a schedule II substance it needs to:

    A) have a high potential for abuse
    B) have an accepted medical use in the United States
    C) may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence when misused or abused

    Vicodin is abused by a lot of people, it does have an medical use in the United States, and it is considered highly addictive. Under that then yes Vicodin should be a schedule II substance.

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    • tch43436SensuousPantyhose
      5 years ago

      Due to this new designation to C-II,Heroin laced with fentanyl use has spiked.Also, paranoia has created a panic among nonamulatory patients who cannot get refills anymore. Over regulation of what quality of life is has been redefined.If you have the monitatary means you can receive Tx. If not you waste away in your own excrement with bed sores until all hope is abandoned.

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      • xxLucifer
        5 years ago

        You can still get refills of Hydrocodone. You just need a doctor to write you a prescription. Also doctors can write up to three prescriptions for the same medication at a time as long as they specify what day you are supposed to pick up the consecutive refills, essentially giving you up to a 90 day supply of it before you have to go to the doctor again to get another prescription. Amphetamines such as Adderall are treated in the same way and again like I said in my original comment Adderall is prescribed to children all the time.

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        • tch43436SensuousPantyhose
          5 years ago

          Good luck on that. The Government puts limits on the amount of d-amphetamine salts combinations. There is a national shortage of sympathomemtic amines.They also limit the production of MU agonists. Even if you possess a valid Rx for a C-II does not mean the pharmacy has to fill it. They can refuse to dispense any Rx for any reason at any time. You have little recourse to require the corporate headquarters to order any employee to render services to you as they have individual policies that they employ for prescribers that over provide and without proper diagnostic codes. They often use creative reasons like:'we are out of stock'. Or we only dispense to our regular customers. Or we don't carry it. Or we require insurance as our only means of payment(no cash).

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        • tch43436SensuousPantyhose
          5 years ago

          That's true with Adderall. It is not the case with narcotics.

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    • tch43436SensuousPantyhose
      5 years ago

      Hydrocodone does not meet the criteria for a indication for severe pain .It is ineffective for breakthrough pain, and lacks efficaciousness for the higher ranges of genuine amaliaration of pain to post operative pain Tx,burns, or intractable types of horrendous agony that is now even more difficult to control.

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      • xxLucifer
        5 years ago

        That has nothing to do with it's schedule ranking though. Like I said in my original comment there are three requirements for a drug to be considered a schedule II substance. Hydrocodone products meet those requirements.

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        • tch43436SensuousPantyhose
          5 years ago

          "Requirements" it is a matter of degree. How abusable? How potentially addictive. The ones who have the propensity to increase the dose on their own initiative are the culprits. Synergistically speaking, polydrug abuse combining for example Xanax, Carisoprodol,oxycodone is the "holy trinity" of getting the best buzz.

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