Remember when Barack Obama said, “Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.”? Guess what – the pain-free death he advocated is about to have a lot of pain added. Fox News reports that an “expert” FDA panel, which the FDA usually obeys, has recommended eliminating Tylenol-3 and other medicines that combine acetominophen with other painkillers, as well as prescription-only Percocet and Vicodin. They also recommended that the maximum recommended single dose of acetominophen be dropped from 1,000 milligrams to 650 milligrams and the maximum recommended daily dose from 4,000 milligrams to an unspecified amount. Fortunately, they rejected calls to eliminate other multi-ingredient medicines that include acetominophen.
Here comes the pain!
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For those who have chronic pain i.e. advanced forms of arthritis, these pain killers are a Godsend. By removing these, more people will need to see more Drs. to get more prescriptions for the narcotic (read that addictive) pain killers….yup, that sounds a whole lot like the way to reduce unneeded costs in the medical sector!