February 5, 2009 - 2:20am
I ask out of pure curiousity, but is there an injection that can be given, or pill to be taken, that can counteract the effects of Vicodin or other hydrocodon's?
Say for instance, if you took some vicodin because you had earlier dislocated a shoulder, and realized you had to drive to the store, but did not wish to be unsafe about it.
Or if, taken to the hospital, medical staff needed to relieve your system of hydrocodone without Dialysis in order to inject or provide another substance. Is this possible? If so, how would one go about doing this? Rather, what would be used? Thanks in advance!
-Chance
February 5, 2009 - 3:19am
#2
Oh, haha. I'm not actually
Oh, haha. I'm not actually thinking about doing it! I don't even have any vicodin. The question was purely hypothetical. Thanks for the speedy response though!
February 8, 2009 - 11:22pm
#3
He's right. I overdosed on
He's right. I overdosed and was injected IV with naloxone. It immediately woke me up, eliminated all effects of opiates, and put me into withdrawal & perhaps saved my life. It is certainly a life-saving drug. The only new information I have to offer is that Naloxone is traditionally used in actute settings, i.e. drug overdoses (though it is included in Suboxone, an opioid maintenance medicine), and Naltrexone is used usually for long term maintenance, working ideally in a similar fashion to disulfiram (anabuse), although I don't believe using opiates while on naltrexone will produce adverse effects, only the opioids won't be felt, if I'm not mistaken.
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Naloxone and Naltrexone will do the trick. They're only given (mostly the Naloxone or Narcan) in extreme situations of overdose to counter act any effects. My advice would be to not drive to the store. Messing with opiate agonists and antagonists is dangerous if you don't you know what you are doing. As for the medical staff, I doubt they would administer Narcan for that purpose. That would be up to them on the best course of action. Administering Narcan would send a regular user of hyrdro's(for medical purposes) into withdrawal. Not a good idea. A person on them temporarily would be advised to stop using them before their appt. So deal with the effects. Or stop doing it.