Vicodin is the brand name for a prescription opioid pain killer called hydrocodone. Hydrocodone is effective in providing people with relief from pain or discomfort associated with illness, injury, or recovery from surgery.[1] If you receive a prescription for Vicodin, you will have just enough of the medication to recover…

Since the 1990s, the United States has been in the midst of an escalating opioid crisis. The first wave of the opioid crisis was defined by prescription opioid abuse (primarily OxyContin). The second wave of the opioid crisis was marked by heroin. The third, and current wave, of the crisis…