FDA to eliminate Vicodin & Percocet!
 

Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet.

"We're here because there are inadvertent overdoses with this Vicodin & Percocet that are fatal and this is the one opportunity we have to eliminate this risk and do something that will have a big impact," said Dr. Judith Kramer of Duke University Medical Center.

The dangers from use or abuse of Vicodin and Percocet may be even more concerning, one key panelist said.

"It seems to me that problems with opiate combinations are clearly more prevalent," Dr. Lewis S. Nelson, chairman of the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee, said during a Tuesday press conference held after the two-day meeting.

Explaining the panel's 20-17 vote to ban prescription acetaminophen/opiate drugs like , Nelson said, "There are many deaths that relate to problems with prescription opiate combination acetaminophen products like Vicodin & Percocet, whereas the number of deaths clearly related to the over-the-counter products are much more limited."

Eminem is reportedly planning a protest movement, as we speak.

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Let me know when this "panel" somehow morphs into the actual FDA.

What a horribly written article- very misleading! These panels are strictly advisory and the FDA may/may not listen to them. Also, the panel's concerns were solely around the acetaminophen/paracetamol content in Vicodin and Percocet, and not the opiates themselves. Accordingly, pure opiate products (not containing acetaminophen/paracetamol) like Oxycontin are considered okay.

They'd better not get rid of these drugs- I'm getting ready to have my wisdom teeth removed! What kind of pain meds will I be on?

^^ i took aspirin & was fine~

Oh, yay. Bring back the glorious days of Prohibition, when buttinsky bureaucrats told me what I could ingest, inhale, & imbibe.

are you going to legally change your name to harry browne or should we just use it as a nickname?

I guess this means my grandmother (wherever the hell she is) will be reduced to abusing Xanax. :rolleyes::lol:

Just how old *are* you?

i'm still waiting on the carbon dating results.

but we could always count the rings.

He's younger than me.

I was prescribed Vioxx and Vicodin :thumbsup: when I had mine pulled a few years ago. Of course Vioxx is no longer on the market, but goshdarnit, the stuff worked wonders. Vicodin was only used for entertainment purposes.

Make it Friedrich Hayek or Henry Louis Mencken, & I'm there.

In 1994 when I needed my wisdom teeth pulled my Dentist introduced me to Valiums. I've never been worried or stressed out since.

My mom was just prescribed Vicodin this past Wednesday. She fell & hit her head. She didn't want to go to the ER & leave her dog, but I told her I'd watch the dog if she'd go. All I could think of was what happed to Nastasha Richardson. Well, everything was fine & the ER doctor prescribed Vicodin because she also hit her jaw & it really hurt. The doctor wasn't none too happy that they will be eilminating this medicine. My mom only took it once though. She's didn't like it, upset her stomach.

Lee :)