Just the facts, please.

February 24, 2008 3:27 PM

Say I have a percocet. It has stamped on it "7.5/325".

What does this mean?

posted by wafaa to Health & Fitness (7 answers total)

Oxycodone HCl 7.5mg, acetaminophen 325mg;
posted by milarepa at 3:28 PM on February 24, 2008

It's 7.5mg oxycodone and 325mg acetaminophen.
posted by tepidmonkey at 3:29 PM on February 24, 2008

Future reference: Drugs.com pill identifer This will help you avoid the "don't tell mom" tag.
posted by The Deej at 3:44 PM on February 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

rxlist.com works too.
posted by Infinite Jest at 4:59 PM on February 24, 2008

I would prefer the PDR, if just because I grew up staring at the dead-tree version when I was very bored.

It seems to be maintenance-ing right now, however. It also only really works when you already know what you're looking for, but it should give more information. (The dead tree version gives contraindications, dosing, effects, all you may ever want to know about any drug).
posted by that girl at 5:04 PM on February 24, 2008

Unfortunately, unless you're on campus of a college with a med school, you're probably not going to be able to read PDR.net.

Access to PDR.net and Thomson Clinical Xpert is free to U.S.-based MDs, DOs, Dentists, Optometrists, NPs and PAs in full-time patient practice, and to U.S. medical students, residents and other select prescribing allied health professionals.

posted by FlyingMonkey at 3:08 PM on March 2, 2008

Ahh, apologies for the not-so-useful information, then. When the site was down, it was not even informative enough to let me know that, I think.

The PDR is still pretty awesome in its brickish-dead-tree-version-ness.
posted by that girl at 1:30 PM on March 3, 2008