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Originally Posted by Nathans_Dad
Here's the problem in a nutshell:
A few years ago the government banned Vicodin. Know why? Because Vicodin had a higher amount of Tylenol (500 mg) in it vs Norco (325 mg) and people were overdosing on Tylenol because they were taking so much Vicodin and they went into liver failure.
It blew my mind that instead of the government talking about how people were taking too many narcotics, they ban one because it had too much tylenol in it. Anyone ever think to talk about how people should be taking less hydrocodone? Nope.
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Vicodin (5/500) and Vicodin ES (7.5/500) were the among the weakest narcotics you could get, so no, the FDA was not interested in limiting narcotics with the ban.
What do you do for people who do have serious pain that needs to be managed so they can function? The best we have now are all addictive and decrease in effectiveness the longer they are used. We need to stop blaming people who take narcotics for pain and come up with better management strategies.