2006-11-25 11:44:59 · 7 answers · asked by jnurse1160 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
No, Phenergan is not a narcotic. I work at a university clinic as a registered nurse, and we are allowed to dispense this medicine to students for nausea and vomiting. Its generic name is Promethazine. It does have sedating effects, but it doesn't give patients a "high" like controlled substances do.
2006-11-25 11:53:06 · answer #1 · answered by adstidamrn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, Phenergan (promethazine) is not a narcotic it is a phenothiazine. It is most often used for nausea/vomiting or in combination with codeine in cough syrups. It is related to certain antipsychotic drugs (used in schizophrenia). It also has sedative, antihistaminic and anticholinergic effects.
2006-11-25 19:49:43 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. Okram 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whatever it is , it is heavy schitt. Makes people loopy as hell. Probably addictive. Also, bad reactions can include loop loop loopiness, and sometimes it won't even help nausea, but the Doctors will continue giving it anyway until the nurses start screaming at them.
Better alternative is Reglan. Milder on the mind, effective to control/reduce nausea, won't make a person near so loopy as phenergan.
2006-11-25 19:56:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, it is often used to decrease nausea.
Narcotics are controlled substnaces. Phenergan is not a controlled substance
2006-11-25 19:47:59 · answer #4 · answered by N T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a RN and work in a hospital. I believe phenergan (promethazine) is a controlled substance because we have it in a narcotic pixis and have to sign it out. I am not totally sure.
Pts really like it because it has a sedating effect when we give it.
The drug seekers really dig it a bunch.
2006-11-25 19:49:39 · answer #5 · answered by happydawg 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's an anti-emetic. Definitely NOT a narcotic. Don't need a DEA # to write a prescription.
2006-11-25 19:47:43 · answer #6 · answered by AgentZero 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
under a doctors instruction, i gave it to my daughter when she was 3. she had severe nausea for days. it knocked her out! i would only give it if absolutely necessary. i have heard a lot of parents use it to drug their kids to sleep. disturbing.
2006-11-25 20:02:23 · answer #7 · answered by leolady0765 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋