Does taking hydrocodone pose any brain damage risks?
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Hydrocodone, when taken for the control of pain, does not pose a risk for brain damage. It does have an addictive liability and can cause respiratory depression when taken in excess. Brain damage resulting from the *abuse* of hydrocodone is related solely to brain ischemia and not the drug per se.
Hydrocodone is a schedule II narcotic (and contains no acetaminophen). Some schedule III narcotics contain therapeutic doses of drugs such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen. All drugs when taken in excess have the potential to cause brain damage (the result of primary or secondary mechanisms) ... this of course does not mean all drugs cause brain damage.
No, but you can addicted and mess up your liver due to the acetaminophen in used..
Sorta. It will, through normal feedback mechanisms, depress your endogenous production of endorphins, so over the long haul you'll be more likely to be in pain, unless you keep taking them forever. There's also the possibility of respiratory depression leading to hypoxic brain damage, but that's only with large doses or admixtures of hydrocodone with other drugs (like alcohol). And you can expand the definitions: Do you count, for instance, being doped up, having a car wreck, and splattering your brains across the pavement?
Yes, It's addictive, and anything with the tendency to cause addiction alters the mechanics of the brain.
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