New Drug Zohydro (Legal Heroin) Hits The Market - 10 Times More Powerful Than Vicodin
 

Druggies rejoice!

Approved by the FDA last month, new drug Zohydro hit's the market.

Brought to you by Zogenix the makers of Oxycontin, Zohydro is an Opiate drug said to be 10 times more powerful than Vicodin.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/melanieh...too-dangerous/

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0MA0RB20140313


per Forbes Magazine:

"A new opiate painkiller with 5 to 10 times the power of Vicodin, set to hit the market in March, could trigger a disastrous spike in overdoses and deaths, says a powerful coalition of doctors, lawmakers, and addiction specialists.

“In the midst of a severe drug addiction epidemic fueled by overprescribing of opioids, the very last thing the country needs is a new, dangerous, high-dose opioid,” the experts wrote, addressing FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, MD.

One member of the letter-writing coalition, Andrew Kolodny, president of the advocacy group Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, was more blunt: “It’s a whopping dose of hydrocodone packed in an easy-to-crush capsule. It will kill people as soon as it’s released.”

What’s all the fuss about? Plenty. Zohydro is so strong that someone new to opioids could die of an overdose from just two pills, the experts say. And a child could die from ingesting just one capsule. According to the FDA’s review, the relief – or the high – of Zohydro can last up to 12 hours per dose."



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Legal drug dealers.

Have to cut those things into 3 pieces...

Oh goodie. More dead people.

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Not cut with acetaminophen, like other opiates, to deter people from injecting. Half of drug abusers get pills from doctors and friends.

What could possibly go wrong?

Crazy. I'm assuming they're going to have Fentanyl like restrictions on them... but still... damn.

Wow!

One does of Fentanyl can kill.

Sensationalism. Zohydro has the exact same active ingredient, hydrocodone, as Vicodin. And, Zohydro comes in a 10mg dose. Vicodin comes in a 5 and 7.5mg dose (generics). Yes, Zohydro does come in a 50mg capsule, but to simply say it is 10 times more powerful than Vicodin is misleading. If you take the highest available dose of Zohydro, which docs simply aren't going to prescribe, and you take the lowest available dose of Vicodin, then yes, it's 10 times as powerful.
In realistic dosages, it's about 30% more potent than vicodin

over / under on how long it is until someone OD's?

Within 6 hours of the first prescription being filled.

Someone, somewhere, will OD on Vicodin tonight. Somewhere, someone will OD on alcohol tonight.

Gimme gimme gimme

I agree, it is sensationalism. But cut it with acetaminophen like the majority of hydrocodone preps to deter crushing and injecting.

The manufacturer said they were working on new preps to answer the critics, but why not wait until then to release the drug?

One word: money.