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Word: percodan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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David ended up in Massachusetts General Hospital with bacterial endocarditis, an infection of the lining of the heart. It is sometimes caused by using dirty needles to inject drugs. After that, according to Collier and Horowitz, a psychiatrist agreed to prescribe the painkiller Percodan in order to keep him away from heroin. David took up other drugs as well-cocaine and Dilaudid. Bobby was arrested in South Dakota last year for possession of heroin, and entered a drug-treatment program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The One Caught in the Undertow | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...grown accustomed to taking heavy doses of Pacidyl, Valium, Percodan and Demerol every night. Such heavy downers often caused him to fall asleep in the middle of a sentence or even a meal. One moment he would be sitting at the table, piddling with his mashed potatoes. The next, he would be head down in the slop. Linda Thompson once left Elvis for a moment while he was eating a bowl of chicken and rice soup. When she returned, she discovered him with his face totally submerged in the dish. If she hadn't pulled his head back before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Search of Pelvis Redux | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...filled many of Presley's prescriptions.) According to the complaint against Nichopoulos, he wrote orders for 12,000 pills and vials of potent drugs for Presley in the final 20 months of the singer's life, including Quaalude, Dilaudid, Amytal, Dexedrine, Valium, Demerol, Carbrital, Placidyl and Percodan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Junkie King | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

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