What Is Percodan?
Siobahn Morse, the executive director of The National Institute For Holistic Addiction Studies, discusses the widely abused painkiller, Percodan.
What is Percodan?
Percodan contains a combination of aspirin and oxycodone.
Aspirin is in a group of drugs calls salicylates. It works by reducing the substances in the body that cause pain, fever and inflammation.
What is Percodan?
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 bodies opiate receptors, highly concentrated areas in the brain that control pain and emotion.
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.
What is Percodan addiction and abuse?
Percodan abuse could include altering the Percodan dose by taking more than needed for unintended reasons and/or repeated chronic use despite potential negative consequences.
Potentially addictive drugs such as Percodan activate the brain’s reward and pleasure centers. This stimulation could cause patients to chase the reward feelings causing them to crave the drug more and more.
Powerful psychological and physiological cravings are indicative of a drug dependency.
Other signs of Percodan abuse and addiction include a mental preoccupation with obtaining and consuming the drug.
Some abusers may falsify prescriptions or shop around for different doctors to secure more than one supplier.
What are the side effects of Percodan?
The side effects of Percodan include: euphoria, drowsiness, respiratory depression and arrest, nausea, confusion, constipation, sedation, unconsciousness, coma, tolerance, addiction and death.
What are the withdrawal symptoms of Percodan?
Because a patient can develop both physical and psychological addiction to this powerful opioid, Percodan withdrawal can affect people in a number of ways.
Symptoms of a Percodan withdrawal can include: abdominal pain, anxiety, confusion, constipation, hot flashes, irritability, insomnia, loss of appetite, muscle aches, excessive sweating, rapid breathing, flu-like symptoms, and tremors.
What is Percodan?
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