Vicodin essays

Vicodin essays Hydrocodone otherwise known as vicodin is a tablet for the relief of moderate to moderately severe pain. Vicodin may be habit forming. This medication should not be taken more that the prescribed amount. One of the two drugs in vicodin is Acetaminophen. This medication is taken daily by millions of people in our society. Acetaminophen is an over the counter drug known as Tylenol. Excessive use of Tylenol is extremely detrimental to the body. Most vicodin addicts take up to ten pills a day, so they are taking in way more Tylenol than needed. Tylenol has been noted to cause major liver damage and eventually liver failure. Once the liver failure has failed, death is next to come. That is one way that vicodin can slowly put someone to death. Some vicodin addicts have reached the point to take up to 100 pills a day. Over months of vicodin use, the vicodin effects will become greater and more damaging. At first, the user will endure such effects as constipation, speeding up or the slowing down of the heart rate, nausea, and dizziness. As the use grows, the vicodin effects will come in the form of blurred vision, hallucinations, and sever confusions. The last stages of vicodin addiction bring with it the two most detrimental vicodin effects known. These two stages are a coma and then death. This drug combination is in the Federal Drug Administration pregnancy category C. This means that its effects on an unborn baby are not known. Since the category is C, I could not really get that much information on vicodin. This drug will pass through into breast milk, which could harm a nursing infant, which could damage the helpless child. This medicine has a liquid called Lortab, which has alcohol and can harm a child. The systems of when you overdose me include: blood disorders, cyanotic skin color, cold clammy skin, increasing sedation progressing to unresponsiveness, diaphoresis, irregular heartbeat, decreased heart rate, weakness, low blood pre...