House (TV show) and vicodin addiction

[Beltane]

Did a search and didn't see anything on this.

Anyone watch that show House about the doctor "addicted" to vicodin? SWIM knows a bit about vicodin, tho he's more of a binge user taking 3-6 Norco 10/325's at a time for a couple days and then running out.

Are there really people who are "addicted" to vicodin who take 1-2 pills at a time throughout the day? They once showed his prescription and it was for the 500's. An addict would be eating a lot of those I'd imagine.

Also, it seems irresponsible to show a doctor eating that many vicodin, not because vicodin are bad but because vicodin at that those dosages is very harmful to the liver because of all the tylenol (APAP.) Surely if a docor was addicted to hydrocodone they would be eating Norco 10/325's instead of 5/500 or 10/1000 vicodins. Then again, Norco probably just doesn't have the rep that vicodin has and it _is_ a TV show.

Also, for a while they had him shooting morphine occasionally. Might one do that and still bother with hydrocodone?

Great show by the way.

- Beltane