# Prescription Pill Identification **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 24, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prescription-pill-identification/133730 "2002-10-24T19:28:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![galyean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f9ae1b/32.png) [@galyean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galyean)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prescription-pill-identification/133730/1 "2002-10-24T19:28:28Z")
Any dopers (no pun intended) that can help? Pill is marked on one side with a V. The other side is imprinted with the number 3600. The pill is pink, oval/oblong and larger than a Tylenol caplet. Said pill was found in the pockets of a younger sibling’s clothing prior to the wash. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prescription-pill-identification/133730/2 "2002-10-24T21:04:37Z")
Hi galyean, You could try a “Physician’s Desk Reference” or perhaps call a pharmacy as a concerned parent. ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prescription-pill-identification/133730/3 "2002-10-24T21:11:04Z")
You may want to try [this](http://www.drugs.com/data/channel/md/healthscout.cfm?PID=1) site to ID it: it even provides pictures so that you can match it up more accurately. (I tried to see if any searches I did matched, but didn’t see anything that looked right… perhaps someone else may have ideas?) \_\_ \<\< There is no spoon. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prescription-pill-identification/133730/4 "2002-10-24T21:20:19Z")
I would call your [poison control center](http://www.aapcc.org/findyour.htm). They should be able to identify it for you. ---
**Author:** ![renigademaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@renigademaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/renigademaster)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prescription-pill-identification/133730/5 "2002-10-25T03:04:46Z")
I work in a Pharmacy but am not a Pharmacist, but would reccommend you either go into a local pharmacy to have it identified or just throw it away. Its amazing how many pills look alike, and the reference guides are often years behind and arn’t too accurate. To dispense of old pills, the best way is to flush them down the toliet. Ben ---
**Author:** ![galyean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f9ae1b/32.png) [@galyean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galyean)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prescription-pill-identification/133730/6 "2002-10-25T14:41:43Z")
The poison control center recommended a Pharmacist. The Pharmacist recommended the poison control center. Lather, rinse, repeat, huh? We’ll take it to the Pharmacy today instead of trying the telephone. There is some speculation of hydrocodone??? Is this a relative of oxycodone? I guess the next step is confrontation whether we fail at identification or not. ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prescription-pill-identification/133730/7 "2002-10-25T16:02:47Z")
From the prescription I got filled yesterday, I can tell you that hydrocodone is a narcotic painkiller. One of the brand names is Vicodin. ---
**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prescription-pill-identification/133730/8 "2002-10-25T17:46:23Z")
It could also be a vitamin of some sort, which won’t show up on the drug identification site. Also, a pharmacist won’t necessarily be able to identify it if it is a vitamin. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prescription-pill-identification/133730/9 "2002-10-25T19:40:38Z")
Well, V/3592 is a generic Vicodin (5mg hydrocodone+500mg acetominophen); perhaps it’s a stonger concentration?