wrong about other items as well. US officials are ultra committed to the harmful and stupid idea that cannabis must be listed as more harmful than Hydrocodone. Their entire policy is based on money and prejudices and as the hearing for the new AG prove yet again, science, medical need and the laws established by an informed public mean nothing to them at all.

European physicians are reluctant to prescribe medications containing acetaminophen, and hydrocodone is usually prescribed in combination with that. The Europeans are way more concerned, by and large, with liver damage caused by acetaminophen than Americans are.

of drugs like Vicodin are actually caused by acetominophen toxicity, and not from overdose of the narcotic.

Paracetamol (international name, aka "acetaminophen&quot is a commonly prescribed pain reliever in Europe and is commonly prescribed in combination with codeine and dihydrocodeine here in the UK (and also available OTC in tablets of 8mg codeine/500mg paracetamol or 7.46mg dihydrocodeine/500mg paracetamol).

The issue is that hydrocodone has never been approved for medical use in most European countries, or has been withdrawn from prescription.

pain sufferers.

I've tried 'm all and to me it is the best with the least side effects of anything we've, my doctor and I, have tried.

A while back one of my older brothers fell and broke his hip. Rreplace hip and doing fine except he is in a lot of pain. One day 4 of us brothers were talking and I asked my brother why he didn't take the pain meds, Hydrocodone, that his doctor prescribed and he said he didn't want to get hooked on them. I said I've been on hydrocodone for going on 10 years and yes if i was to just stop taking them I'd have a few days of hell but what I'm wanting to get at is. All three of my brothers that were there looked at me in amazement, not a one of them had any inkling that I was taking pain meds every day and had been for so long and probably will until I croak, no clue did they have. I have no desire to take more than whats prescribed because I really don't like how that makes me feel. Its been so long now that I feel no and I mean NO high from taking these pills.
So I ask you again, What the hell would you like me to do, live in pain?

And no, I don't get high either but I guess some people do.

Does your doctor give you any flak for taking it so regularly? I had some major surgery and my doc refused to let me get a refill after a certain amount of time. She said I had been "addicted" to it and she felt she needed to wean me off of it. I told her I had never been addicted to anything. I quit a 20 year smoking habit with no withdrawal symptoms at all.

My opinion is that some people are prone to addiction and others are not and it has nothing to do with "character" or virtue. It just is.

Same with the smoking and the drinking for me. Once I made up my mind I was going to quit both was easy. I was surprised at how easy it was for me to quit both of them.

Why she was prescribed it, I don't know. I heard back pain but she hadn't had a back injury.

I get where you're coming from. Some on DU talk about how SSRI's cause people to do all kinds of crazy things. IME, I've known many people who have really been helped by SSRI's.

was when my doctor prescribed paxil to me. I don't have depression, rather I have a problem with anxiety and have all my life. Anyway I'm glad that I had the good sense to only take one half tablet of the paxil because it was a living hell for me for about three days. The next time I seen my doctor, which was only a few days later, I said to him if you ever give me something like that again I'll choke you within a second of your life. I was pissed. Now my records state I'm allergic to ssri's. The va want to fill you up with pills and I'm sure any vets reading this will agree with me or at least many will.

Edit to add: I'm sorry for your loss and wish they could screen out the potential abusers better than they can

I also agree with the person who wondered how many of those od's were due to the Tylenol in the pain meds rather than the hydrocodone.

You wear it, it is slow release of very strong pain medicine around the clock. Patients I have had with chronic pain loved it...they could still function

I learned long ago that I don't want to make any suggestions to the doctor concerning pain meds cause that sends up red flags.