Posted on 10/26/2013 12:46:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Food and Drug Administration is recommending new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S.
In a major policy shift, the agency said in an online notice Thursday that hydrocodone-containing drugs should be subject to the same restrictions as other narcotic drugs like oxycodone and morphine.
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Uh, it IS different.
Liberty means being free to do whatever you want UNTIL it infringes upon someone else's rights. In the case of abortion, the "someone else" is the innocent baby who's done nothing to deserve summary execution.
Loperamide has the same affinity for mu opioid receptors as opiates. It is just a happy accident that loperamide is almost immediately pumped out of the brain by a glycoprotein thus limiting the effects to those receptors outside the brain.
Yes one does get a little used to the pains associated with growing older. At 71 I feel them in the morning and they remind me I am still alive. My father used to say All of the Ritis boys are bad ,but that Arther is a bitch.
Thanks for the ping!
The Controlled Substances Act, passed in 1970, put hydrocodone drugs in the Schedule III class, which is subject to fewer controls. Under that classification, a prescription for Vicodin can be refilled five times before the patient has to see a physician again. If the drug is reclassified to Schedule II, patients will only be able to receive one 90-day prescription, similar to drugs like OxyContin. The drug could also not be prescribed by nurses and physician assistants. I have been a P.A. for 33 years, have had a dea license for most of them. I renewed my license last year (700 bucks) and note on it that I can write schedule II drugs. Where are they getting their information ?
I continually shudder at what they are gonna want to restrict next. Who knows how many cures for cancers, mental/personality disorders, physical handicaps and other such innovations are gathering dust in some warehouse because of these narcissists?
Sorry Marie, did not read down the thread soon enough to see the correction.
yeah, no one gets addicted to 10-325 Vicodin.
Are you saying Relistor will stop the pain and not constipate you? What about the itch associated with Vicodin? Does Relistor have the same itch effect? When you say double it, do you mean if I was on 10-325 Vicodin I need to be on 20-325? What is the appropriate Relistor prescription?
I bet the kids all called het "Stinky".
the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S.
Really? For some reason I don’t believe the claim that hydrocodone is the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S.
Uh, that’s not very original (see up the thread), and quite predictable. A knee jerk reaction. Now try to refute the same argument (’it is my own body’) by a user and seller of illegal drugs to other owners of their own bodies.
I have taken Hydrocodone as prescribed and I don’t see where it does a helluva lot for pain.
My doctor prescribed Oxycotin for severe rib pain due to a very bad bout of pneumonia. I held off taking it until bedtime. All it did was gave me the jitters and made my face itch. Who the hell would want this crap?
Relistor is a modified form of naltrexone (methylnaltrexone to be exact)and it is a narcotic antagonist. Unlike other narcotic antagonists like Narcan, methylnaltrexone will not reverse central nervous effects of opiates such as analgesia and respiratory depression.
The itch you describe is usually associated with the opiate (hydrocodone) and not Relistor.
As far as the dosing is concerned, I think the commonly prescribed 8mg dose is insufficient---12mg is more like it.
There is no such dose of hydrocodone/apap as 20-325. Vicodin is now supplied in fixed combinations of 5/300, 7.5/300 and 10/300
Other analgesics like Norco and Anexsia come in similar combinations with slightly more acetaminophen (325mg vs 300mg)
Yup. I misspoke. Already busted. :)
Good info!
that’s cool! do it myself all the time. :)
Do you mind if I ask what you do for a living? You’re very knowledgeable.
Seriously? You can’t tell the difference? The drug buyer is freely making a decision to do something harmful to himself (victimless “crime”). The fetus doesn’t get a vote about getting aborted. It has to do with all that antiquated life, liberty, etc., stuff.
The voters, citizens want/desire for ‘protection’ by their government is based on fallacy. You, me, the individual citizen has no legal right to any provided protection from government unless held in official custody. You probably are aware that to seek redress on the basis of ‘failure to protect’ from the Federal level down to state county levels is hard to impossible to achieve. Those in charge know this. They then persuade the sheep, I mean voters, to pass more laws, regulations ensuring that these will ‘protect’ them from fear, need, whatever. All those do is establish more central control with NO guarantee of protection/safety. As for Departments such as the FDA, Energy, and so on, of course they are not going away. I never said they were. I have maintained that the sheep must take control of their own destiny. Hobble to the best of our ability these Departments, Federal level on down. Because if the sheep don’t, if they sit around and say ‘That’s just the way it is, oh well’, they WILL be eaten. The citizen/sheep have to do it cuz they are not going to get any help from the ‘established’ political parties. Can we the citizens do it? I doubt it. Hell, like I stated before, we so-called ‘free people’ allow others to dictate what we can/can’t do to our own bodies.(Fetuses included as ‘others’ are dictating their future....)
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