THEY WILL CREATE A HEALTH CRISIS THEN OFFER A GOVERNMENT SOLUTION
Posted on 06/30/2009 7:18:06 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Government experts are scheduled to vote on whether Nyquil and other combination cold medications should be pulled from the market to help curb deadly overdoses.
The Food and Drug Administration has assembled more than 35 experts for a two-day meeting to discuss and vote on ways to prevent overdose with acetaminophen — the pain-relieving, fever-reducing ingredient in Tylenol and dozens of other prescription and over-the-counter medications.
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. There are about 200 acetaminophen-related deaths each year.
"It can happen to anybody, but it's very rare," said Dr. Lee Simon, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, who attended Monday's meeting. "Obviously it's important that we improve the communication about these products because they are ubiquitous, and we still see people inadvertently overdosing."
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They can have my Nyquil when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!!!! Do they know how good that stuff is and the beautiful sleep it brings?? LOL
So now the ER is going get flooded by everybody that has a cold..... even more so.
Now you are going to need a prescription for Nyquil AND Cheerios .
While I am all for freedom, I must admit I have gulped half a bottle of NyQuil at times, if only to clear my aching sinues and get some rest.
I take Nyquil about once every 2-3 years for 2-3 days, but there is nothing like it when it is needed. This is ridiculous.
Nyquil is effective, therefore get rid of it. Makes perfect sense to a liberal.
Next will be my hydrocodone, it has acetaminophen too but works just fine on chronic pain.
Out of how many millions of sales? This has to be a fraction of a fraction of a percent, and I would bet all the deaths where not using the medicine properly. Punishing the 99.99999% of us for the .000001% of idiots in the world.
There is and will continue to be constant tinkering by the bureaucrats to "improve quality" and "save money".
Punishing the 99.99999% of us for the .000001% of idiots in the world.
You nailed it, that's the motto of the 'Tards in charge!
So how are conservative seminary students going to be able to get over their, ahem, “head colds”?
THEY WILL CREATE A HEALTH CRISIS THEN OFFER A GOVERNMENT SOLUTION
Because you can buy it over the counter, that cuts into the pharmaceutical companies that would rather you be prescribed something less effective from your doctor.
You can buy a bottle of 400 tablets at SAMS for around $4.00. It's labeled as Allergy Tablets (Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride).
It's the exact same ingredient they put in Nyquil and Excedrin PM minus the pain killers.
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Yes, but if the ban will save just one life... /s
Crush and mix with this and you get all that great Nyquil flavor and pain killing effects. 
This is probably a good idea. The problem is that it has Tylenol in it, and if your already taking the maximum dosage of tylenol, These combo drugs can really damage your liver.
Hospitals have a special protocol even if you “think” you might have overdosed on the stuff. Kind of like a rabies protocol where it must be administrated even if their not sure if the animal hat rabies. It’s that serious...
BLOAT (ammo) BLOBT (light bulbs) BLONT (Nyquil) BLOCT (Cheerios)
Vas the FDA relocated its offices to Belgium?
Many of those idiots are people who wanted to dramatically attempt a mock suicide. They took a handful of Tylenol and called a friend. Nothing happened immediately so they didn’t go to the ER to get pumped. A few days later they got very sick and discovered that they had a dead liver.
Generally speaking a handful of sleeping pills is far less lethal that a handful of Tylenol.
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