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Hallberg's Picture of Health: Curbing Vicodin abuse

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Hydrocodone pills
Hydrocodone pills, also known as Vicodin, are arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013.
Toby Talbot / AP

In this episode, the growing abuse of prescription painkillers, and how the federal government is trying to curtail it.

Host Tom Crann and Dr. Jon Hallberg discuss the Drug Enforcement Agency's reclassification of hydrocodone drugs, including Vicodin, to the schedule II category.

Dr. Hallberg explains what 'schedule II' means and how this new classification will make it more difficult to get refills of Vicodin and other drugs in the hydrocodone family.