FDA advisors recommend BANNING Vicodin, Percocet; cutting max dose of Tylenol
Percocet, Vicodin Ban Recommended Over Liver Harm (Update1)
By Catherine Larkin
June 30 (Bloomberg) -- The prescription painkillers Percocet and Vicodin should be banned and Tylenol, sold over the counter, should be taken in reduced doses because one of their ingredients, acetaminophen, is linked to liver damage, U.S. advisers said.
Outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted 20-17 today in Adelphi, Maryland, for a ban on the pain drugs. The panel agreed earlier that Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol should be given in lower doses than now recommended and the Extra- Strength version should be sold by prescription only.
Vicodin, sold by Abbott Laboratories, and its generic equivalents are the most popular drug in the U.S., with 124 million prescriptions last year, according to IMS Health Inc., the data research company. Acetaminophen has been a leading cause of liver injury for more than a decade even with efforts to educate users about the danger of taking too much, the FDA says. The agency isn’t bound by panel recommendations.
“This is the best advantage that I’ve seen in preventing hepatic toxicity,” or liver injury, said panel member Robert Levine, a gastroenterology professor at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, in Syracuse. He said liver damage from acetaminophen has reduced the number of organs available for transplant.
Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. sells Percocet.
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OMG WAT?? NOOO NOT VICODIN!!
And cutting the dose of Tylenol? That shit already does nothing for me as it is.
By Catherine Larkin
June 30 (Bloomberg) -- The prescription painkillers Percocet and Vicodin should be banned and Tylenol, sold over the counter, should be taken in reduced doses because one of their ingredients, acetaminophen, is linked to liver damage, U.S. advisers said.
Outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted 20-17 today in Adelphi, Maryland, for a ban on the pain drugs. The panel agreed earlier that Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol should be given in lower doses than now recommended and the Extra- Strength version should be sold by prescription only.
Vicodin, sold by Abbott Laboratories, and its generic equivalents are the most popular drug in the U.S., with 124 million prescriptions last year, according to IMS Health Inc., the data research company. Acetaminophen has been a leading cause of liver injury for more than a decade even with efforts to educate users about the danger of taking too much, the FDA says. The agency isn’t bound by panel recommendations.
“This is the best advantage that I’ve seen in preventing hepatic toxicity,” or liver injury, said panel member Robert Levine, a gastroenterology professor at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, in Syracuse. He said liver damage from acetaminophen has reduced the number of organs available for transplant.
Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. sells Percocet.
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OMG WAT?? NOOO NOT VICODIN!!
And cutting the dose of Tylenol? That shit already does nothing for me as it is.