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Jesus Christ. As if this week could get any worse: A federal advisory panel has recommended that the FDA issue a ban on Vicodin and Percocet due to their damaging effects on the liver. Both painkillers combine a narcotic with acetometophin (a.k.a. Tylenol) -- a combo that's been found to be particularly damaging after extended use -- and along with seven other prescription drugs these two would go off the market if the FDA follows the panel's recommendation, which they usually do. This would be a huge blow to both pharmaceutical companies and pain pill fans alike. As the NY Times reports, "Vicodin and its generic equivalents alone are prescribed more than 100 million times a year in the United States." Whatever will we beg our dentists for the next time we must undergo oral surgery?
O Noes! Vicodin and Percocet to Be Banned?
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To protect the public health I move that acetaminophen be banned immediately and dentists and doctors begin to prescribe dilaudid for all occasional aches and pains.
Isn't that laudanum?
Fuck it, just give 'em crack and a 40oz Mickeys.
(Then tell them to sit around outside the 16th St Bart station all day.)
Now that's something I can get behind, or under, or who cares. I'm warm and itchy. Why haven't I pooped in two weeks?
Jesus, that reminds me. It's time for me to dose.
Percodan has oxycodone and aspirin, as opposed to Percocet, which has oxycodone and acetaminophen. So no worries. Percodan's not going anywhere!
pills
pills
(Drops phone!)
(Spills cocktail!)
(Drives into a pole!)
OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
That reminds me to take a couple of Percocet and a glass of merlot to bed—it's clean sheets night.
Great news, this will free up donor livers for all the uninsured bloggers that will soon make up 4/5 of the Bay Area's population. You won't have to be a rich CEO or rock star to get a transplant. I promise to keep riding my motorcycle and carrying my donor card, so blog on!
Oh great. So people who suffer from real pain will now have to take morphine instead because the lesser options aren't available to them. This decision is idiotic.
there's always vicoprofin as well-no worries!