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Anyone here smart enough to read?
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Well to protect those few, percentage wise, 'merican morons who over dose on OTC and prescription drugs, the FDA is considering taking some drugs away from us. And why do they o/d? The 'merican morons don't read the info given out with every drug they buy. Survival of the fittest anyone?
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Once again, the nanny state bureaucrats want to protect us from ourselves. And damn the consequences to anyone who has a pain problem. Personally, I think it's another part of their ongoing snatch at controlling the medical industry in our country.
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FDA panel recommends smaller doses of painkillers
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Government experts say the maximum dose listed for Tylenol and dozens of other painkillers should be reduced to help curb deadly overdoses.
In a series of votes Tuesday, a Food and Drug Administration panel endorsed lowering the maximum dose of over-the-counter acetaminophen -- the key ingredient in Tylenol, Excedrin and other medications.
Acetaminophen is one of the most widely used drugs in the U.S. Many patients find it easier on the stomach than other painkillers like ibuprofen and aspirin, which can cause ulcers.
But despite years of educational campaigns and other federal actions, acetaminophen remains the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S., sending 56,000 people to the emergency room annually, according to the FDA.
FDA's experts voted 21-16 to lower the current maximum daily dose of nonprescription acetaminophen, which is 4 grams, or eight pills of a medication like Extra Strength Tylenol.
The group was not asked to recommend an alternative maximum daily dose.
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Schteveo is sick, and tired of gub'ment fools
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14 comments:
Are you on drugs?
No, not right now. But I don't want some non-elected, nameless, non-medically trained jerk deciding I can't have them either if I have a need.
This is total BS dude.
Do you ever prescribe pain meds for patients? Do you want that taken away from them because of someone they don't even know? It's just more bureaucratic BS.
Just take more pills.
But yeah, I'm tired of gub'ment anything!
If the warning labels were different Elvis & MJ would be alive today?
This is why i laugh when i hear someone say this is a free country. Only someone living in the past can still believe that.
Without Vicodan what will dentists give after painful dental work? Seriously, though, we all have to suffer the loss of a cheap and very effective pain med because of stupid people.
Don't worry Missy, Bill O makes house calls and will sooth all your pains.
Pain control is not a necessary expense under universal healthcare
I heard this morning that the number of people who die from overdose of tylenol is approximately 200 per year. The 56,000 is a large number to be hospitalized, but the implication was that the dosage was reduced because of the number of deaths from overdose. Another example of scare tactics and misinformation to support enacting more control over our lives. Don't these people believe in the survival of the fitest? I honestly wonder how I managed to grow up and be normal without all these controls.
If people don't read the label and take the recommended dose now, how do they expect them to follow the new lower dosage recommendations?
Who is this Tylenol czar going to be?
That 56,000 boobs who don't read the directions, are the same dumb MFers who didn't "know" TV was going digital, who text while driving, who use a curling iron in the shower, who couldn't drive and "needed" anti-lock brakes, and who undoubtedly voted for our President.
All they do is muddy up the gene pool.
Boy Bill, i try opening the door for you, and you slam it shut!
How many people die each year from drinking too much water, or coffee, or fruit juice, (we already know what too much Kool-Aid can do) or too many cookies, or too much whatever? My point being, you can not legislate stupdity. When left to their own devices, people will do unbelievably stipid things, and often die from their stupidity. That's how we keep the gene pool somewhat clean.
Personally, i don't really believe this has anything to do with taking too many Asprin, but all to do with exerting more control over the masses. No matter which way you look, the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-"caring" govt. is taking control of every aspect of our lives. And, it's being done without the people requesting it, or the congress authorizing it. Now that's what i call democracy!
Spider:
You have me confused with the Pooter?
No, you're taller. ;)
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