After a black Labrador retriever named Deeoge fell twice, his owners told his veterinarian that offering the dog Vicodin had seemed to ease his pain. So Dr. Randall Snyder started prescribing the pain reliever along with other medications, according to a settlement between Snyder and the state’s veterinary board over alleged misconduct.
Category: Vicodin, Acetaminophen/Hydrocodone (generic)
A ‘civil war’ on painkillers is raging in the medical community
In this June 14, 2011 file photo, various prescription drugs on the automated pharmacy assembly line at Medco Health Solutions in Willingboro, N.J. All three are patients struggling with chronic pain, but what they are describing is not physical agony but a war inside the medical community that is threatening their access to painkillers – and, by extension, their work, their relationships, and their sanity. Two years after the United States saw a record 27,000 deaths involving prescription opioid medications and heroin, doctors and regulators are sharply restricting access to drugs like Oxycontin and Vicodin.