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I am hoping this question is to determine whether your dog will be OK after accidentally eating vicodin and not to determine how many vicodin to give your dog to euthanize it. Deliberately overdosing your dog with a controlled substance (which vicodin is, at least in the United States) would be illegal on several fronts: drug diversion, animal abuse, illegal practice of veterinary medicine, etc. It would also be profoundly unethical - oral dosing of pills for euthanasia is notoriously inexact, very difficult to achieve and causes a prolonged, painful death.

However, if you are worried about your dog after an accidental ingestion, you should talk to your veterinarian immediately. Vicodin has two drugs in it: acetominophen and hydrocodone. The acetominophen can cause liver damage, perforating lethal stomach ulcers and other gastrointestinal damage. The hydrocodone dulls the sensation of pain, reduces heart and respiratory rates and can cause hallucinations. The lethal dose will depend upon the formulation of the vicodin, the overall health status of the dog, if the vicodin was ingested on a full or empty stomach and what other medications the dog may have eaten. This will become a complicated medical question pretty quickly, which is why I would suggest taking the dog to a veterinarian immediately.

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