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Can vicodin help with anxiety?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Agree w Dr. : Ibrahim. Vicodin is not an anxiolytic medication. However, if severe pain is triggering anxiety- it may help indirectly by decreasing pain level.

Dr Ibrahim agreed

Answered 1/19/2014

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