Dilaudid (Hydromorphone) Addiction
Dilaudid is the brand name for hydromorphone. Dilaudid is a manufactured painkiller that works fast and helps people when weaker medicines don’t work anymore. Hydromorphone, known since the 1980s, treats severe pain. Sadly, people have misused it, and it has played a part in the United States’ problem with opioid addiction for just as long. […]
What Is Dilaudid?
Dilaudid, or hydromorphone, is a potent synthetic opioid. It quickly relieves pain in patients who do not respond to less powerful pain medications. While other opioid medication’s brand names may be more recognizable, hydromorphone is effective and highly addictive. According to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), about 4 million hydromorphone prescriptions are written by […]