Hydrocodone addiction continues to grow as a significant drug addiction problem in the United States. The media often focuses on illegal drugs: big cocaine busts, methamphetamine labs, and steroid abuse grab the headlines.
However, lurking in medicine cabinets throughout America is a bottle of pills with one of the highest potentials for abuse and addiction: Vicodin.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) considers Vicodin and its generic cousin hydrocodone to be one of the most abused prescription drug. Every year more people find themselves addicted to these yellow pills and many of them end up in emergency rooms.