Comments on: FDA Looking Out For You, Or Big Pharma? http://rjjrdq.com/2009/07/16/fda-looking-out-for-you-or-big-pharma/ Still good, still bad, and still absurd... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:46:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Goodtimepolitics http://rjjrdq.com/2009/07/16/fda-looking-out-for-you-or-big-pharma/comment-page-1/#comment-500 Goodtimepolitics Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:56:14 +0000 http://rjjrdq.com/?p=1155#comment-500 I would say Oxycontin is one drug to stay away from unless its a dying need to use it such as for cancer where a person has been given 6 months to live! Why do you suppose that so many drug dealers are selling Oxycontin on the streets. Its all OK because doctor...huh what his name....oh Doctor Barack Hussein Obama will look out for your healthcare. Oxycontin is an opium derivative like codeine, but it is significantly more powerful. Oxycodone is the active ingredient and it is present in Oxycontin in a very high dosage. When the drug was developed, this was considered to be a significant advantage because, unlike other opium derivatives, it only had to be taken every 12 hours. Oxycontin was approved for use as a narcotic pain reliever by the FDA in 1995. one large single dose, can cause respiratory failure leading to death. Furthermore, if withdrawal from Oxycontin is not handled carefully, the effects are much like heroin withdrawal: severe flu-like symptoms, muscle and bone pain, and acute nausea. A continuing danger of taking Oxycontin is the risk of becoming addicted to it. At some point, the chemical changes in the brain urge the patient to continue taking the drug, at whatever cost, to continue the high. http://injury-law.freeadvice.com/drug-toxic_chemicals/oxycontin_side_effects_uses.htm A federal advisory panel voted narrowly on Tuesday to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, two of the most popular prescription painkillers in the world, because of their effects on the liver. “We have no data to show that people who overdose shop at Costco,” said Dr. Edward Covington, a panel member from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/health/01fda.html I would say Oxycontin is one drug to stay away from unless its a dying need to use it such as for cancer where a person has been given 6 months to live! Why do you suppose that so many drug dealers are selling Oxycontin on the streets. Its all OK because doctor…huh what his name….oh Doctor Barack Hussein Obama will look out for your healthcare.

Oxycontin is an opium derivative like codeine, but it is significantly more powerful. Oxycodone is the active ingredient and it is present in Oxycontin in a very high dosage. When the drug was developed, this was considered to be a significant advantage because, unlike other opium derivatives, it only had to be taken every 12 hours.

Oxycontin was approved for use as a narcotic pain reliever by the FDA in 1995.

one large single dose, can cause respiratory failure leading to death. Furthermore, if withdrawal from Oxycontin is not handled carefully, the effects are much like heroin withdrawal: severe flu-like symptoms, muscle and bone pain, and acute nausea. A continuing danger of taking Oxycontin is the risk of becoming addicted to it. At some point, the chemical changes in the brain urge the patient to continue taking the drug, at whatever cost, to continue the high.
http://injury-law.freeadvice.com/drug-toxic_chemicals/oxycontin_side_effects_uses.htm

A federal advisory panel voted narrowly on Tuesday to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, two of the most popular prescription painkillers in the world, because of their effects on the liver.
“We have no data to show that people who overdose shop at Costco,” said Dr. Edward Covington, a panel member from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/health/01fda.html

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