![]() ![]() MORE RISK-AVERSE USERS, LIKE WOMEN, OLDER PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO PREFER TO DEAL WITH A DOCTOR RATHER THAN A DRUG DEALER, WERE MORE LIKELY TO PICK HYDROCODONE. YOUNG, MALE DRUG USERS WHO LIKE TO TAKE RISKS, AS WELL AS TO SNORT OR TO INJECT DRUGS TO GET HIGH TENDED TO PREFER OXYCODONE. IN LOOKING FOR CLUES ABOUT WHO IS, OR IS NOT, ABUSING THESE DRUGS, CICEROS TEAM FOUND THAT PERSONALITY, AGE AND GENDER ALL PLAY A ROLE. ![]() BUT HE SAYS REFUSING TO PRESCRIBE THE DRUGS ISNT THE ANSWER BECAUSE MANY PATIENTS CAN BE HELPED BY THESE PAIN KILLERS. SO CICERO SAYS MANY PHYSICIANS SIMPLY WONT WRITE ANY PRESCRIPTIONS FOR DRUGS SUCH AS OXYCODONE, WHICH IS COMMERCIALLY PRESCRIBED UNDER NAMES LIKE OXYCONTIN AND PERCOCET, OR HYDROCODONE, WHICH IS SOLD AS VICODIN, AMONG OTHER BRAND NAMES. Patient has seen seven other doctors that day, or not. There really is no way that you can determine whether this Pharmacies, and not using insurance, using cash. Want, and theyre very good at going to multiple, differentĭoctors and then filling prescriptions at multiple These addicts are smart enough to know how they have toįake diseases, and all that, to get the medications they THEY ALSO WANT TO LEARN WHAT DOCTORS AND DENTISTS MIGHT LOOK FOR WHEN THEY ARENT SURE WHETHER A PATIENT REALLY NEEDS A PAINKILLING DRUG OR WHETHER THAT PATIENT IS HOPING TO GET A PRESCRIPTION JUST TO GET HIGH. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY DRUG ABUSE RESEARCHER THEODORE CICERO, AND HIS COLLEAGUES ARE TRYING TO LEARN ABOUT THE PERSONAL TRAITS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO DRUG ABUSE. OPIOID DRUGS, SUCH AS OXYCODONE AND HYDROCODONE ARE PRESCRIBED TO TREAT PAIN, BUT THEIR MISUSE HAS RISEN DRAMATICALLY IN RECENT YEARS. INTERVIEWS WITH DRUG ABUSERS ALSO HAVE GIVEN THEM SOME CLUES ABOUT WHY. LOUIS AND NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY IN MIAMI HAVE LEARNED THAT OXYCODONE AND HYDROCODONE ARE THE MOST POPULAR AND FREQUENTLY ABUSED OF PRESCRIPTION PAIN-KILLING DRUGS. Louis and Nova Southeastern University in Miami found that in all, some 75 percent of those surveyed rated one of these drugs as their favorite.ĪNALYZING SURVEYS FROM MORE THAN 3,500 DRUG ABUSERS IN 160 DRUG TREATMENT PROGRAMS AROUND THE COUNTRY, RESEARCHERS FROM WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN ST. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Hydrocodone, also prescribed to treat pain, is next in line. The prescription painkiller oxycodone is the most popular drug of choice among drug abusers in treatment. Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 2:46 | Recorded on November 22, 2013 ![]()
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