If there’s a possibility that people will abuse it, then they will abuse it.
Doesn’t mean the medication shouldn’t be developed, though.
Why are we protecting people from themselves? Let them crush it and get high.
I can’t help but wonder what these addicts are thinking.
Don’t people put two-and-two together before they start doing drugs? Aren’t they scared of what might happen?
I’m glad I’ve had the brains to stay away from drugs.
Not much difference here between hydrocodone and Oxycodone. Hydrocodone, mg per mg is about 90% analgesic potency of Oxycodone. The difference is the lack of Tylenol which is useless for moderate to severe pain. The problem with the current hydrocodone/Tylenol combo is that the addition of Tylenol makes it more toxic to those who abuse hydrocodone and patients that take more drug than specified by the prescription. Tylenol is liver toxic for normals after 4g, but less in patients with alcoholism and liver problems. The key to safe opioid prescribing in patients with chronic pain is patient selection/ risk assessment, urine drug testing, clear expectations of the use and effect of the drug, and the use
of other non- narcotic treatments.
Overall, a good decision.
.but they drive the roads I drive and the roads my kids drive.
..they overwhelm ER's and take up valuable time when I might have a life threatening condition..
.they make my insurance premiums sky high so they they can flit around like flys and pay nothing but boy do they demand to be first in line when they've killed their livers or their kidneys or have MRSA wounds requiring expensive hospital time and materials....
these drug companies are not interested in the cancer patient....they are interested in how many more people they can get to suck on their perverted immoral tits....
I think with every RX for this and other narcs a doc writes he must also give instructions on weaning and something to wean off on if this is possible