On second thought....
"FDA orders warnings on Darvocet" by Associated Press | July 8, 2009
WASHINGTON - The government is letting the painkillers Darvocet, Darvon, and their generic cousins stay on the market....
The Food and Drug Administration’s decision puts the United States in stark contrast to Britain - which banned the drugs several years ago, citing a trail of suicides and accidental overdoses - and Europe’s drug regulators, which just recommended that European Union countries do the same.
Known generically as propoxyphene, the 50-year-old prescription drug is widely used in the United States even though doctors consider it a weak pain reliever. The consumer watchdog group Public Citizen had petitioned the FDA to ban it here, too, saying the small benefit didn’t justify a risk that was adding up to several hundred deaths a year. In January, the FDA’s scientific advisers narrowly agreed.
But the FDA yesterday instead ordered that a boxed warning be placed on the drug’s label, and that patients soon start receiving a special pamphlet with every bottle that stresses the risk of taking too much.
Down the sink with 'e.... no wait a minute, into the toil...., no that's no good.
Into the trash? Or get a job as a cook (or dishwasher even) at a nice, posh restaurant and see how they like being fed drugs.
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See: FDA Food Fight
FDA Protects Big Pharma While Telling Americans "F*** You!"
FDA Doesn't Care About Cancer
FDA Approval to Immunize Drug Companies From Lawsuits
