Percodan Addiction

Percodan® is one of many narcotic pain relievers.
Overdose Trends, according to CDC Congressionalt Testimony (March 2008), the marked increased in unintentional drug overdose has been cause primarily by opioid analgesic medicine like Percodan® (up 160% from 1999 to 2004).  By 2004, prescription drug overdose ranked as the second-leading cause of unintentionaly injury death in the United States after automobile fatalities, recording over 5,000 more death nationwide than by homicide, according to the Center for Dieseas Control (CDC, 2004.)  By 2005, more people in the 45-54 age groups died from drug overdose than from motor vehicle crashes.
Prescription drug patients do not choose to become addicts.  Self-medication for physical pain, emotional pain, misdiagnosed depression, anxiety or trauma typically provokes addiction.  Percodan addiction arises as a consequence of a drug dependency that has not been properly treated medically.
Patients initially wanted to alleviate the discomfort of physical or emotional pain.  Instead the medication triggered a physical -- sometimes psychological – dependency.  This comes from chronic over use of prescription.  Drug dependency counseling, like appropriate medical care, is effective only after removing the numbing medication and treating the physical, chemical dependency.
Due to an increased understanding of opiate dependence, today modern medicine can medically reverse drug dependency.  Patients no longer need to rely on painful and ineffective drug detox programs.  A medically induced detoxification, while under anesthesia, reverses a patient’s Percodan addiction or dependency.