Percocet Addiction

Percocet is Endo Pharmaceuticals’ North American brand name for oxycodone/acetaminophen blend tablets.  The blend tablet is a narcotic pain reliever used to treat moderate to severe acute (short-term) pain.  This medicine, in recent years, has gained favor among the medical community due to its effectiveness and a lower addiction rate than morphine.  It is very useful to give to someone who is experiencing acute severe pain that is not chronic nor breakthrough.
On June 30, 2009, an FDA advisory panel recommended that Percocet, Vicodin, and every other combination of acetaminophen with narcotic analgesics be removed from the market because of their contributions to an alleged 400 acetaminophen related deaths in the United States each year that were attributed to acetaminophen overdose and associated liver damage.