How to Use hydrocodone in a Sentence

hydrocodone

noun
  • During a search, police found pills, which turned out to be an acetaminophen and hydrocodone mix.
    John Benson, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2020
  • In searching a small backpack on the driver's floorboard, Stockwell found a hydrocodone pill, 0.4 grams.
    Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Up to 10 percent of patients in the study continued to fill prescriptions for the drugs, such as hydrocodone and oxycodone, three months after their breast cancer surgery.
    Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • In the following five years, the three companies’ shares fell to 57 percent of oxycodone and hydrocodone pills as the supply chain diversified.
    Kevin Schaul, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The suit alleges Schweger knew Witt was already receiving clonazapam when Schweger prescribed her hydrocodone.
    Garrett Andrews, oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2020
  • In fact, Norco is made as a combination drug because hydrocodone works better when combined with acetaminophen.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Toxicology reports had indicated hydrocodone, an opioid, was in his system at the time of the crash.
    Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Doctors prescribed low doses of hydrocodone, then higher doses of oxycodone.
    Sari Horwitz, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
  • Toxicology reports had indicated hydrocodone, an opioid, was in Burdette's system at the time of the crash.
    Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 26 Oct. 2021
  • And in Tennessee, a family medicine doctor allegedly ordered doses of opioids like hydrocodone and oxycodone for patients who did not need them.
    Robert Legare, CBS News, 5 May 2022
  • Pills sold as Adderall proved consistently unreliable across the country, but the odds of a tablet sold by a pharmacy as oxycodone or hydrocodone being a dangerous fake varied from city to city.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • For pain, there’s everything from acetaminophen to hydrocodone to aspirin to ketamine, not to mention topical anesthetics like lidocaine.
    Troy Farah, Ars Technica, 8 June 2020
  • Young was convicted of six charges related to giving hydrocodone, oxycodone and alprazolam to this patient, officials said.
    Julia Marnin The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The indictment alleges that Gayle prescribed combinations of oxycodone, methadone and hydrocodone with anti-anxiety drugs that raise the risks of drug overdoses without medical need.
    al, 7 May 2022
  • Again in rehab around November 2020, his heart stopped after doctors administered propofol that interacted with the hydrocodone in his system.
    Christina Veta, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Now, officials in Vermont, Massachusetts, and elsewhere are working to limit or even ban Zohydro, which has approximately five times the amount of hydrocodone contained in other pills on the market.
    Elise Craig, Outside Online, 14 Apr. 2014
  • Another agent, identified only as E.T. in court documents, sought Siao for a prescription of Norco, a combination of hydrocodone and acetaminophen used for pain management.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • One agent said Siao allegedly prescribed him 30 pills of Norco — a hydrocodone brand name — following an eight-second physical examination.
    Vanessa Arredondo, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Opioid pain relievers, like hydrocodone and OxyContin, are still circulating, too.
    Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Police did arrest Jones’ husband, Jihad Haqq, who was convicted in federal court of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone and hydrocodone and sentenced to 97 months in prison.
    Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Authorities say many victims are unknowingly consuming fentanyl in counterfeit tablets made to look like oxycodone, hydrocodone, or Xanax.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 14 July 2022
  • Heroin, morphine, opium, fentanyl, oxycodone (sold under brand names, including OxyContin), hydrocodone (brands include Vicodin), codeine and methadone are all examples of opioids.
    Robert Hart, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • Officers found hydrocodone pills, alprazolam pills, a small bag of marijuana, and $2,000 in McDowell’s possession.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 28 Sep. 2022
  • At least three times last year police investigated thefts of residents’ medications, including hydrocodone, Xanax and oxycodone.
    Tim Evans, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Authorities searched the Joneses' home after getting a warrant and reported finding six marijuana plants, prescription oxycodone and hydrocodone and multiple guns.
    Monica Brich, Arkansas Online, 23 June 2023
  • According to court documents, the couple admitted to providing dangerous doses of hydrocodone to patients who were not examined by a medical professional and while Dr. Korcz was absent from their clinic.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 5 May 2021
  • Her doctor prescribed hydrocodone several years earlier for back pain related to degenerating discs that was aggravated by a car crash and surgical complications.
    al, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Oxycodone and hydrocodone are semi-synthetic derivatives.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Story continues below advertisement The Post’s data and interactive maps illustrate how much hydrocodone and oxycodone went to individual states and counties, and which companies and distributors were responsible.
    Kevin Schaul, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023

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