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Percodan and Percocet have the same opiate (oxycodone), but one also has aspirin (ASA) and the other acetaminophin (APAP). The government wants docs to prescribe the one with APAP so anyone who tries to use them recreationally does a horrible and slow death from liver failure.
I had my four wisdom teeth out quite a while ago. It was done under general anaesthesia, which I definitely don't recommend. And the pain meds were delayed, so I got to feel everything when the anaesthesia wore off. That was incredible pain. That's probably why when docs ask me about pain on the 1 to 10 scale, I'm reluctant to go very high unless I'm damn near passed out from the pain.
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