Vicodin In The House

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Americans’ Favorite Rx

Image Source: Historic LOLs As most pharmacists already know, the most-dispensed drug in America in 2009 was the pain medicine hydrocodone/APAP (Vicodin, Lortab, Norco, others). Not only was hydrocodone/APAP the most dispensed medication, but including all of its different strength generics, it was dispensed more than twice as often as Lipitor, the second most-dispensed prescription [...]

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