i'm always for personal choice, but i think this was a good move indeed. I
recall the "NSAIDS wreck your liver" scare back in 1995, a few weeks into it the
NY DAILY NEWS published a half-page interview with the discoverer of
acetaminophen. He said he told his bosses it was "intrinsically hepatotoxic" and
that he suggested "no more than 500 325mg doses in a lifetime". the article went
on to describe the grim 1st place acetaminophen holds in drug-overdose
statistics.

i've told many people of that article over the years, including people who abuse
Vicodin and Percocet specifically... pretty much NO ONE was aware of the risks.
not even most doctors, although my orthopedist told me a couple of weeks ago
that his clinic advises patients to avoid more than 3 grams a day and no more
than 7 days at a time.

I'm especially worried about drug abusers using these pills willy-nilly, they
actually think the opiate within is the bigger risk.
Vicodin/Percocet and their variants were and are a deeply flawed approach to
drug abuse and dependence. Pharma companies mixed them up with the express idea
that pairing acetaminophen with various opiates would limit their abuse
potential by *making abusers feel sick via acetaminophen overdose*. The fact
that many opiate abusers will brag about taking 16 Vicodins at a time during a
drinking binge (Artie Lang from the Howard Stern Show among them) is proof of
the grim failure of that approach.

Ban them.

Jeton


--- In PozHealth@yahoogroups.com, PoWeRTX@... wrote:
>
> Panel Recommends Ban on 2 Popular Painkillers
>
> NY Times
> By GARDINER HARRIS
> Published: June 30, 2009
>
> ADELPHI, Md. â€" A federal advisory panel voted narrowly on Tuesday to
recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, two of the most popular prescription
painkillers in the world, because of their effects on the liver.
>