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percocet

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for percocet.

Editorial note

To a first approximation, 0 people overdose annually from vicodin/percocet and other short term acute pain treatments.

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Quick take

(pharmacology) A brand name for an analgesic combination drug containing oxycodone and paracetamol, often used for recreational purposes.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(pharmacology) A brand name for an analgesic combination drug containing oxycodone and paracetamol, often used for recreational purposes.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for percocet.

noun

(pharmacology) A brand name for an analgesic combination drug containing oxycodone and paracetamol, often used for recreational purposes.

Example sentences

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To a first approximation, 0 people overdose annually from vicodin/percocet and other short term acute pain treatments.

2

Alcohol's sold in corner stores, Percocet is only (legally) available through a pharmacy with a prescription.

3

The medics had given me a dose of percocet[2] for the pain and I had just started Neuromancer.

4

This was when marketing was telling everyone percocet and vicoden were safe and non-addictive.

5

In 2009, a federal advisor board recommended that Vicodin and Percocet be banned.

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I sort of liked the purity of Percocet if only it hadn’t been so loaded with Tylenol.

7

When I had my wisdom teeth out, they gave me percocet (oxycodone + tylenol).

8

Don't take that free Percocet offered by you friends.

9

Highly addictive opiods such as percocet, oxycodone, codeine, etc.

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Public flaggelation is not without consequence, however - don't be shocked when you can't find a pharmacy willing to fill a Percocet rx after your next surgery.

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Serial abusers mostly know about this (and have strategies to mitigate it), but kids popping their mom's Percocet with a Bud Light have no idea how harmful that combintaion is.

12

I experienced a back injury and got off Predisone and Percocet within a month -- I owe largely to the inflammation reducing effects of the Paleo diet.

Quote examples

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I don't think I know a single one that was "on-ramped" from Vicodin or Percocet in any truly meaningful sense.

2

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted by a narrow margin to advise the FDA to remove Vicodin and another painkiller, Percocet, from the market because of "a high likelihood of overdose from prescription narcotics and acetaminophen products".

3

From the article: > "the victims — mostly white, well-off and often young" > "A result has been a rising sea level of prescription painkillers that continues today, of opioids such as Percocet, Vicodin and OxyContin.

4

A big cohort (relatively speaking) of American society got addicted to Oxy, Percocet, etc., a lot of those ended up buying street drugs to fuel this addiction after doctors stopped prescribing them, the lack of empathy to take care of those people meant that overnight a lot of them had an addiction while having no access to the "safer" products to fuel it.

Proper noun examples

1

But, when combined with another substance (most often with acetaminophen, like Percocet) the drug is reduced to Schedule 3.

2

Use of illicit drugs also fell on the whole and use of non-heroin narcotics (Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet) hit an all-time low.

3

Percocet went for $30 a pill; one-gram bags of marijuana sold for $50.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use percocet in a sentence?

To a first approximation, 0 people overdose annually from vicodin/percocet and other short term acute pain treatments.

What does percocet mean?

(pharmacology) A brand name for an analgesic combination drug containing oxycodone and paracetamol, often used for recreational purposes.

What part of speech is percocet?

percocet is commonly used as noun.