Narcotic (that is, opiate) pain reliever (see 'oxycodone') that the FDA took off the market... not because of its opiate properties (which will block your pain or, if you're not in pain, get you high), but because the company that makes it, to preserve their copywrite and keep it from becoming generic (our slogan: "profits ahead of people"), added enough aceteminophen (Tylenol, APAP) to it to fry your liver. For chronic pain patients, oxycodone is great stuff, and so lots of people were put on Vicodin (the company bribed doctors with freebies and trips, etc., to prescribe it instead of generic oxycodone, that costs less)... then their patients started suffering liver failures and dying. Oh well... they'd made their profits.
I'm one of those chronic pain patients (6 spine surgeries) and don't get high at all from opiates-- the body is smart enough to aim the narcotics at the pain first. If there isn't any pain, you will get high as a kite on 5% of what I take daily... But the acetominophen in the Vicodin would have blown out my liver and killed me, and all for the sake of the multinational pharmaceutical firm's profit/loss margin.
And when you hear this crap about how they have to charge so much because of research costs, try to get a comparison of research and marketing costs for the same drug. Good luck.
And when you hear this crap about how they have to charge so much because of research costs, try to get a comparison of research and marketing costs for the same drug. Good luck.
by The Fadduh October 24, 2009
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Get the Vicodin mug.Alias for former hall of fame quarterback Bret Favre. Favre took on the pysuedonym after battling an addiction to the powerful opiate vicodin.
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Get the david vicodin mug.Doc... This Vicodin is not helping the pain any more. Now what? Here try Vicodin ES. It is 1.5 times as strong.
by Buttercup87 August 17, 2011
Get the Vicodin Es mug.Vicodin is a drug that is Hydrocodone (Opiate) combined with Acetaminophen (Tylenol) that is prescribed to treat pain. The opiate kills mild to moderately severe pain and it give you a high that is like opium and less severe than morphine and heroin. Opiates are generally very addictive. Kratom is a plant that is a partial stimulant and a partial opiate and not very addictive and also very good for pain. Kratom is safer than Vicodin. Kratom might get you less high than Vicodin, but tolerance builds less quickly with Kratom and it's safer for pain. The withdrawal from Kratom is only slightly more severe than withdrawal from coffee and energy drinks and nowhere near as bad as a Vicodin withdrawal or Klonopin withdrawal.
Tyler: I broke my arm and took Vicodin. I started becoming addicted to Vicodin. I heard about Kratom from an Indonesian friend and I bought Kratom. Now I no longer have pain and I'm not addicted to Vicodin anymore.
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