Word: percodan
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...three years' probation and ordered to perform 480 hours of community service and pay more than $10,000 in fines. When stopped by security guards in the store, Ryder was also found to have a collection of prescription drugs in her bag that would have made Elvis proud, including Percodan, Valium and Endocet. Her lawyer said the medications were for pain management. The judge chastised Ryder for not taking "personal responsibility" for the incident. The actress was deferential to the judge but made outraged and disbelieving faces as the prosecutor spoke. The judge also ordered Ryder to undergo psychological...
Opioid painkillers, which include morphine and heroin as well as prescription products like Percocet, Percodan and Vicodin, are so dangerous because they are so seductive. They work by throwing up roadblocks all along the pain pathway from the nerve endings in the skin to the spinal cord to the brain. In the brain these drugs open the floodgates for the chemical dopamine, which triggers sensations of well-being. Dopamine rewires the brain to become accustomed to those benign feelings. When an addicted person stops taking the drug, the body craves the dopamine again...