Acetaminophen (paracetamol) to be banned by FDA?
July 2nd, 2009 | Published in Clinical Matters | 1 Comment
Pain is such a common problem in the United States that Vicodin is the most widely prescribed drug in the country.
It alleviates the pain of surgery, soothes aching joints, and beckons to Gregory House, the misanthropic TV doctor played by Hugh Laurie.
Vicodin and similar painkillers are so tightly woven into daily American life that if the Food and Drug Administration takes the advice an expert panel issued Tuesday and prohibits them, doctors and patients will scramble for alternatives, experts said.
“If they were to ban those, what do you think would happen tomorrow? It would be a mess,” said Timothy Ives, associate professor at the University of North Carolinas Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Read full article: Philadelphia Inquirer
July 2nd, 2009at 22:37(#)
“Of course, instead of the intended effect of less drug abuse, we now have more liver failures, at a higher societal cost. This is the same thinking that has people opposed to clean needles programs – does less clean needles mean people will inject less? No, actually they will still inject, and they will have a higher chance of contracting Hepatitis or HIV.”
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