While figures for some kinds of drug use among teens have dropped slightly over the last several years, prescription drug abuse shows no signs of letting up. Supporting this abuse is the ease with which our young people can lay their hands on prescription drugs to abuse, particularly prescription pain relievers such as hydrocodone, often marketed as Vicodin.
A recent report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University shows that one-third of teens who know prescription drug abusers say that these kids get their drugs from home. Another third say they can get these drugs from a friend or classmate.
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Prescription Drugs Such As Hydrocodone In The Home Are The Key To Abuse By Teens
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Hydrocodone or dihydrocodeinone is a semi-synthetic opioid derived from two of the naturally occurring opiates, codeine and thebaine.
Hydrocodone Prescription, Dosage & Administration:
Hydrocodone is an orally active, narcotic analgesic and antitussive. Being a narcotic analgesic, it is prescribed for the relief of moderate to severe pain & being a antitussive, it is prescribed as a medicine used to suppress or relieve coughing.
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I have a friend whom I think is addicted to hydrocodone. I do know for a fact that he does not have a prescription for this and he won’t tell me how he gets the drug. I guess he just knows me well enough to know that I would be against it– him taking the drug, I mean. If anybody can give me information about this, then maybe I can put a stop to him getting the drug, or at least, tell somebody who can make him stop.
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Dilaudid is the trade name of hydromorphone hydrochloride which is a hydrogenated ketone of morphine that is used as an opioid analgesic to treat moderate to severe pain. White coat clad chaps call it 4, 5?-epoxy-3-hydroxy-17 methylmorphinan-6-one hydrochloride in their language.
Some bacteria have been shown to be able to turn morphine into hydromorphone. As reported in the July 1993 issue of Applied Environmental Bacteriology, the bacterium Pseudomonas putida, serotype M10, a naturally occurring NADH-dependent morphinone reductase which lives in an aqueous solution containing morphine, forms a significant amount of hydromophone as an intermediary metabolite. Same way, codeine may also be turned into hydrocodone.
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