Comments on: Bye Bye Generic Vicodin

By: Brannon

Brannon — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:03:37 +0000

I think you think your hardcore huh? Well if you are thinking about the apap and not taking it because of the side effects your nowhere near an addict! I am a diabetic and kidney and liver problems come along with that..I have took 20-30 10mg a day for over 4 years without even thinking of the Tylenol at all (my mom would call them in to a pharmacy acting as a nurse using different dr.’s D.A numbers. That is the least of a addicts worry. If they are putting Tylenol in there to keep addicts away or from getting people to take to much they made a bad mistake wouldnt you say?..Geeez..Look how many people are addicted to them now!! I wish I never had seen or took the first one!!

By: christy

christy — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:27:29 +0000

Joe; That yellow oblong pill(10/325) is Norco. It’s most likely the “Watson” generic. Each pain medication containing acetaminophen & hydrocodone all have different dosages of acetaminophen. They all make them with the same amount of hydrocodone but different amounts of acetaminophen. For example:
Norco has 325 mg of acetaminophen: *5/325 *7.5/325 *10/325…
Vicodin also called Lortab: *2.5/500 *5/500 *7.5/500 *10/500
Vicodin ES: *5/750, 7.5/750, 10/750….

Note: There are several drug manufactures out there making generic forms of the “name brand”, same dosage & drugs, just priced differently and carry their own look. Watson, Quailitest, Sandoz, Mallinckrodt, Teva, Apotex, Greenstone, Mylan, Hospira,… these are all examples of generic company names. Which also make many kinds of generic medications.
The reason there are so many name brand formulations of the acetaminophen & hydrocodone combinations is so that they could patent a “New Drug”. But never the less, if u are prescribed the Vicodin just ask your doctor to write for Norco, for financial reason!!!

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:27:46 +0000

John and Kieth….yellow 10/325 with a V on it is Vicodin. I work for the company that makes the stuff so I know what I’m talking about.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:23:41 +0000

No…I’m looking at a Vicodin 10/325 right now that’s not Norco…it’s Vicodin. Yellow oblong.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:03:39 +0000

FWIW I just paid $96 for 240 generic Norco. They went up to $130 at my old pharmacy so I had to change to a small local one to get the $96 script. I called all the pharmacies (except Wal-Mart) from CVS to Walgreens to K-Mart. The highest quote I got was $199.

By: gizmo Brennan

gizmo Brennan — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:34:30 +0000

I just paid out of pocket for 100-7.5mg/325mg without insurance and just using my AAA card and without AAA it would be $70.00
with AAA IT cost me $37.00 and that was the watson brand

By: sheryl

sheryl — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:59:16 +0000

What has happened is the price jumped up tremendously for a drug that has less drug in it and is only two-thirds the size of the old pill. The acetaminophen that’s bad for you is what made the pill work. Now what will happen is people will probably double the dosage or take something in addition to the Vicodin brand which totally defeats the purpose of the change. I hate the results of the acetaminophen on the liver, but unfortunately drugs like Norco or Demerol or the low dose oxy don’t help my pain at all but simply work as sleeping pills, and I don’t need help sleeping.

By: Jonesy

Jonesy — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:42:38 +0000

Hey, didn’t they start combining acetaminophen with Vicodin to lower the chance of overdosage? Are they planning to find a new “mixer” that doesn’t have the liver risks, or are they just getting rid of a “mixer” all together?

By: adam

adam — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 03:56:10 +0000

I am going to disagree with you here. I abuse just about anything i can get my hands on. When it comes to Vicodin with apap in it….I def. treat it with respect and much more cautiously than i do other substances.
You bet your ass if i could get my hands on pure 10mg Vicodin pills i would be abusing them all day long constantly. However, the only thing that keeps me from doing so…..is the fact that they are loaded with a bunch of shit that will basically kill me slowly from the inside out if i abuse it too hard without performing a C.W.E
It is ridiculous if you really believe that the addition of the APAP doesnt curb abuse. Not all addicts/junkies are nasty bums with dirt under their nails. Some of us do pay attention, on some level, to what we are putting in our bodies. And for me? APAP is a pain in the ass and i hate seeing it in anything i want to get high on.
Thank jebus for C.W.E

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:35:19 +0000

That is one of the most ridiculous things ive ever heard!!!(“The tylenol in Vicodin is meant to be a deterrent to taking too much. It’s supposed to keep people from using the pills to get high since it will fry their livers.”) Doctors know how highly abused opiates are and they know an addict isnt going to think twice about how much acetaminophen each pill contains, heroin addicts will use a needle that 15 other people just used to get their fix, you think the extremely high risk of contracting HIV or hepatitis C in that situation isnt an effective deterent to death and overdose but too much tylenol will keep them straight huh? The fact is these extremely powerful opiate pain relievers were developed and intended for end of life use on cancer patients!!! Not for Joe Blow down the street who sprained his ankle. Our country makes up 10-15% of the world population but we use 80% of the worlds prescription opiates and there are several reasons for that but one of the biggest is people here like to over-indulge and get a quick buzz, even the pharmaceutical companies and Doctors arent stupid enough to think that an extra dose of acetaminophine would be an effective or logical deterent to get people to “TAKE AS PRESCRIBED”