Category: Vicodin Addiction

You went to the doctor with a chronic pain issue: your back, the recurrence of an old injury, an acute injury caused by an accident or surgery. The prescription you got worked in the beginning, but then you needed a higher dosage in order to [...]

Prescription drug addiction is a huge problem in every region of the United States. Rural areas and urban areas, men and women, young and old – there is no group or culture or geographic location in our country that is safe from the rapidly growing [...]

Prescription drug addiction is an ongoing problem in every state in the country and different states are brainstorming on how they can catch those who are abusing the system and identify those who need prescription drug addiction treatment before they enable someone else into addiction [...]

With the recent success of national drug drop-off days, many police departments and community departments are stepping up to make it easier for residents to get rid of their unused and unwanted prescription drugs all year-round. This not only helps decrease pollution in the water [...]

Across the country, different states are trying to implement state-wide systems that monitor the prescriptions for drugs of addiction including hydrocodone, oxycodone, alprazolam, amphetamines and others. The hope is to prevent multiple prescriptions for opiates and amphetamines that are fraudulent that could result in drug [...]

There are some myths out there about addictive drugs, claiming that some are safer than others. While some drugs can certainly hit hard more quickly than others, any addictive drug has the potential to seriously hurt someone’s life. Even medication that is intended to help [...]

Addiction to prescription drugs like OxyContin, hydrocodone, Percocet, Lortab, Fentanyl and others is on the rise in the United States. One of the reasons why prescription drug addiction is such a large problem is because of the crimes that are often associated with the disease. [...]

Painkillers, especially opiate painkillers, are extremely addictive. It doesn’t matter who you are: if you take prescription medications like OxyContin, hydrocodone, Xanax, Vicodin, Fentanyl or codeine, you will build up a tolerance to the drug, requiring more and more to achieve the initial pain killing [...]

It is a story that, by now, has become familiar to anyone who understands the behavior of prescription drug addicts. An individual will do anything – sacrficing their relationships or careers – to obtain more Vicodin, OxyContin or other painkillers. Mary “Kathy” Madill, a 55-year [...]

After using the prescription painkiller Vicodin for a significant amount of time, the body will become accustomed to having it in their system. Missing even a single dose of Vicodin can bring about strong withdrawal symptoms until one of two things occur: either the individual [...]