FDA Panel Votes to Eliminate Vicodin and Percocet

Yesterday I broke my foot... *grumble grumble*... I have never taken Percocet before, but THANK G*d (or the ER doc) for prescribing it for me. And, THANKFULLY it is available for prescription.

SIMPLY STATED AGAIN... eliminating Vicodin and Percocet WILL NOT solve Tylenol related problems. Why is that so hard to understand? Maybe the FDA Panel has not reached Piaget's Formal Operations stage...

This is possibly an exaggerated reaction to those well meaning TV ads showing teenagers collecting analgesics of family members. I was amazed that anyone seeking an illicit use of others' medications, would bother to remember what the meds had been ordered for. That's why - much earlier on, terms like "reds", "yellows", and then descriptive terms regarding their effects were used by thrill seekers.

When an individual really wants to commit suicide, they'll do that using whatever means is at hand. Overdoses that are accidental usually occur when elderly or neurologically/psychologically impaired folks forget that they've already taken their pain med (uaually at bedtime, when they want to sleep undisturbed by pain).

It's helpful to dispense analgesics in "bubblepaks" that allow notes regarding the time it was taken, to be written (for home use). Then if groggy patients think they didn't take the analgesic, yet have already, they can see the note they made.

Controlling administrators of the FDA who want their own hides saved, don't give a darn about the comfort of patients in pain!