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I have a friend who wears a patch on their back. They also drink and take ibprophen, and some vicoden. Isn't this extremely dangerous? I tried to discuss this issue and they told me the doctor said it is fine.

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It's okay.. all except the drinking. All people on a patch should be taking a short acting narcotic as well for flare up pain. The IB is also okay. You should get them to stop drinking though.

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If it is all prescribed by their doctor, then they are monitoring their use, the problem starts when someone is combining them and they aren't prescribed.

As to the drinking, no, that should never be combined with narcotics, that is very dangerous and even lethal in some situations.

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It depends what kind of patch it is. If it's the morphine patch I would seriously steer clear of any other drugs or alcohol when using the patch. They are very potent as they are suppose to work for 3 days. My boyfriend has a severe addiction to zanex bars, kolonapin and Oxys and happened to take them with the morphine patch. Unfortunattely it kicked his ass made him severely sick and completely non responsive.

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