What Is Percodan Abuse?
Siobahn Morse, executive director of The National Institute For Holistic Addiction Studies, discusses the abuse of Percodan, a prescription medication.
What is prescription drug abuse?
Prescription drug abuse has developed into one of the country’s most severe drug issues. Americans are using controlled prescription drugs at an alarming rate.
What is Percodan Abuse?
They are now being abused more than cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants and heroin combined. Outside of marijuana, prescription painkillers are the most widely abused drugs in the United States.
Many who are addicted to prescription drugs have no prior background of substance abuse. The fact is they become addicted after being prescribed for genuine reasons.
What is Percodan?
Percodan contains a combination of aspirin and oxycodone. Aspirin is in a group of drugs called salicylates. It works by reducing substances in the body that cause pain, fever, and inflammation. Oxycodone is in a group of drugs called narcotic pain relievers. Percodan is used to relieve moderate to severe pain.
What are the effects of Percodan?
Like heroin morphine and other opioid drugs, Percodan works by binding to the body’s opiate receptors, highly concentrated areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
When opiate drugs bind to these receptors, they can drive up dopamine levels in the brain’s reward areas, producing a state of euphoria and relaxation.
Percodan abuse behaviors
The user may take more than the prescribed dosage for the drug. They may also fake the loss of the drug in order to get more from the doctor.
An individual who is addicted to the drug may not know they are exhibiting any of these signs. They may also be more preoccupied with getting the drug, than anything else.
The person may also complain of pain even though they have already taken their pain medication.
Percodan abusers may also opt to use the drug in another form other than a tablet. The most common method for doing this is by crushing the tablet and snorting, or inhaling it through the nostrils.
The abuser may also mix the powder with water and inject it into their bloodstream in order to get rapid results. Crushing the drug may cause an overdose since the drug does contain slow release medicines.
What is Percodan Abuse?
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