The biggest problem is patients on Vicodin or Percocet, a similar combo, who take too much.

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He also prescribed Provigil, a stimulant, and Vicodin, a painkiller with high amounts of acetaminophen.

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Since 2003, investigators say, the Bansals' organization had been selling 2.5 million doses per month of drugs like Vicodin.

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And of course on the mornings I was taking Vicodin, I was deprived of the cholesterol-lowering benefit of my statin.

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"Most doctors are under the impression that Vicodin (whose main ingredient is hydrocodone) is less addictive than other prescription painkillers, " said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, president of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing.

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The Ryan Haight Bill--named after an 18-year-old who died from an overdose of Vicodin purchased online in 2001--would make it illegal to sell prescription drugs online without proof of a prescription issued to the patient in person by a doctor.

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The pharmacy manager explained to me that neither gemfibrozil nor Vicodin was actually dispensed by human pharmacists but by a robot, and she speculated that the robot must have filled my prescription (with gemfibrozil) and then gone on to the next prescription (Vicodin), somehow putting both kinds of pills into the same vial.

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