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Quick Links. Wilson goes to visit House's team to let them know about the bet and keep an eye on House to make sure he's all right. House first insists he's not feeling any of the effects of withdrawal.
He even arranges for House to get a massage from a beautiful woman to help with his pain. However, aftaser a while, House realizes he's suffering badly from his decision. In a desperate bid to relieve the withdrawal symptoms and the pain from his legs, he deliberately breaks bones in his hand with a large paperweight. Wilson treats the injury and when House says it was because he caught his hand in a door, Wilson knows he's lying because the trauma didn't break the skin.
He correctly surmises that House did it to release endorphines to deal with the pain. Soon, the withdrawal is causing House to vomit, but when Foreman asks about it, House insists that it's pain causing him to vomit. Because Foreman is more interested in the welfare of House's current patient , he offers House Vicodin and promisses not to tell.
However, House actually stands on principal and refuses to take the pills. After House sucessfully diagnoses the patient and gets through the rest of the week, he goes back to Vicodin. He admits he's an addict, but denies that it's a problem as he still functions as a doctor. Wilson doesn't believe him, but is at a loss as how to argue otherwise. In Three Stories , House describes the case of Mid 30s man , who is described as a drug seeker. As he tells the students at the lecture that drug addicts are stupid, he pops a Vicodin.
Mid 30s man is, of course, a description of House himself at the time he suffered his infarction. We learn for the first time that House had drug problems well before his disability. At the very end of the last episode of the season, Honeymoon, after he agrees to let his ex-girlfriend Stacy Warner continue to work at the hospital, House tries to walk across the floor of his apartment without his cane.
When his right leg gives up on him as he tries to put his weight on it, he reaches for a Vicodin to deal with the pain. To punctuate Jeff Forrester's abuse of blood doping , hyperbaric chambers , amphetamines and diuretics , House takes a Vicodin as they discuss the issue.
Chase suffers for spilling House's Vicodin all over the conference room while trying to open a safety cap in The Mistake. As a result, Chase is ordered to do the physical exam of the patient. When Stacy hears about the story, she tells Chase not to let the peer review panel know what actually happened.
House celebrates with Vicodin after solving the case in Skin Deep. House gets very little relief from Vicodin at the start of Who's Your Daddy? However, just as he's about to inject himself, he gets a call from Cuddy about a case.
After being shot in No Reason , House instructs the emergency team to give him ketamine during surgery. It works and House has weeks free of leg pain. However, as his leg pain starts to return, he begs Wilson to prescribe him Vicodin. Wilson refuses as he thinks House is just suffering normal leg pain.
House grows more desperate and steals Wilson's prescription pad, setting up the events for the rest of the season. Ironically, when Wilson notes House has stopped exercising, he gives House Vicodin willingly to convince him to work on his leg again. House refuses, even though he already has an illicit source.
House takes a Vicodin in full view of a difficult clinic patient in Fools for Love , then sticks a thermometer up the man's rectum. However, the man turns out to be a police officer, Michael Tritter. He follows House on his motorcycle and during a traffic stop, searches for and finds House's Vicodin. He arrests House and holds him overnight. He gets the district attorney to add a charge of trafficking.
Tritter than confronts Wilson about the forged prescriptions in his name. Wilson lies and says he signed all the prescriptions. House is nonchalant and reminds Wilson that Tritter has nothing to go on. However, Tritter is questioning House's team. Cameron protects House by telling Tritter he only takes about six pills a day. Foreman is completely uncooperative due to his dislike of police officers.
Chase is similarly protective. However, Tritter turns up the pressure by freezing Wilson's bank accounts. By Whac-A-Mole , House is desperate for a prescription, but Tritter has also suspended Wilson's ability to prescribe narcotics.
Tritter also seizes Wilson's car. House turns to his team, but they turn him down flat. House finally turns to Cuddy, who realizes that if she cuts House off, Tritter will only be more suspicious and she agrees to provide him a prescription.
The pressure is really turned up in Finding Judas. Cuddy puts House on a fixed timetable for his Vicodin rather than a free floating prescription. Tritter freezes the bank accounts of Foreman and Cameron and then makes it look like Chase is co-operating.
However, House doesn't fall for the bait. House is, however, getting more and more desperate. During a difficult part of the case, he hauls off and punches Chase, who nevertheless gives House the answer to the case. Vicodin contains acetaminophen, as mentioned, and while most people who abuse Vicodin are likely focused on the narcotic and the symptoms it can provide, the acetaminophen is also coursing through the bloodstream and doing its work each time a person takes Vicodin.
Acetaminophen is processed by the liver, and people who are addicted to Vicodin can do a serious amount of damage to their liver, and the consequences can be dire. Up to 63 percent of people who enter to hospitals with liver failure not caused during a suicide attempt had taken an acetaminophen narcotic combination. Out of those patients, only approximately 65 percent survive.
Liver damage can be fatal. Vicodin can also affect the health of unborn babies. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that as many as six out of every 1, infants are diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome, or acute opioid withdrawal.
This number is assumed to be largely under-reported, and most experts agree that the number may be much higher. Medications may help in the short term, but these babies may struggle with developmental issues throughout their lives. It is incredibly important for all parents who struggle with opioid use to enter treatment. Getting help now will help your children have a brighter future. Some people need to take the drug for legitimate medical conditions, and they may not ever resort to abusing the drug in any way.
However, people who begin using the drug, and then start misusing it, or people who take this drug on a compulsive basis for recreational purposes may need help in order to stop the abuse and move forward with their lives. How Long Does Detox Take? How Much Does Treatment Cost? What Is Inpatient Drug Rehab? Should I Go Back to Rehab? Get professional rehab and addiction education from a qualified doctor today!
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