Darvon, Distalgesic and Co-Proxamol are the worst drugs ever..

Drugs containing the substance (dextro) propoxyphene (DXP) are probably the worst drugs eve. Some of the brands are Darvon, Darvon-N, Darvocet, Distalgesic and Co-Proxamol. Darvon has been a popular painkiller since 1957 in US, and now it is time to ban the drug in US. The responsibilty for banning the drug in US is now in the hands of FDA. The European Union -- EU -- has decides to phase out the drug in the end of 2010.

The drugs containing DXP has caused 100 000´s death during the years -- and nobody has taken re-sponsibility for that. The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly in US is to blame.

The European Union -- EU -- has decides to phase out the drug in the end of 2010

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Darvon
• Distalgesic
• Co-Propxamol
• (Dextro) Propoxyphene
• DXP
• Painkiller
• fatal
• suicide
• accident
• Eli Lilly
• FDA
• Public Citizen
• drugabuse

[UlfJonasson]

I have had another copy of this video on YouTube, but there has been a problem with the noice, I do hope it works now. The former video was on YouTube from Nov 28th, 2007 until today Aug 2nd, 2010. There were 10 782 unic visits. Not so bad

[erewhonista]

The banning of darvon is part of the statists war against peoples right to die. that is why the drug was banned. darvon mixed with benzos was an available method of self deliverance. fundamentalists want death to be degrading. i am a libertarian, BAN THE FDA

[SapphireEyes59]

I just saw the recall on TV about Darvon. I would like to know if Anyone out there knows if there is a Canadian class action suit or cash settlement being offered here in Canada. My mother died when I was 15, leaving me, my brothers 13 and 8 at the time without a parent as we had no father. I would love to know if somehow we can now be compensated financially? Back then we didn't even qualify for an orphan's allowance, she hadn't been working long enough when she died.

[LordWottWottleigh]

I took Co-proxamol/ Darvocet for years after a severe sports injury and can assure you that the claim that it is ‘no more effective’ than aspirin, paracetamol, etc. is simply not true. Even my doctor was highly sceptical about that. It is more like tramadol in its effectiveness. It can make you very slightly light-headed, but if this is what the puritanical, doom-laden Anglo-Saxon medical mind regards as ‘euphoria’, God help us. I await their next paper: ‘Pain can be fun’.

[LordWottWottleigh]

Darvocet/Co-proxamol is available in Greece, but the authorities there take an extremely dim view of codeine-based medicines. The Australian government website advises: ‘Codeine is banned in Greece – do not attempt to bring headache products or painkillers with codeine through customs, and only bring prescription medicines with codeine if you also have a doctor’s statement asserting that the medicine is essential…’ Conversely, UK doctors hand them out like sweets.

[LordWottWottleigh]

Polish people in the UK call British doctors ‘Doctor Paracetamol’, as they offer paracetamol for practically anything. There have been open letters in the Polish press questioning the competence of the British medical profession, particularly after a substantial number of mis-diagnoses: patients being told that they had minor ailments, or that ‘nothing was wrong’, but not trusting the British GP and flying to Poland only to find out that they had cancer or required immediate surgery.

[LordWottWottleigh]

Why not attack paracetamol (acetaminophen) itself? Thirty 500mg tablets of this can kill you, but it is still on sale over the counter AND is now the recommended alternative to Darvocet/Co-proxamol in the UK, along with a few dubious prescription drugs such as Co-codamol and Co-dydramol, which, in addition to codeine phosphate or dihydrocodeine, contain 500mg of acetaminophen/paracetamol, in contrast to only 325mg of acetaminophen/paracetamol in the now-banned Darvocet/Co-proxamol.

[LordWottWottleigh]

The possession of a PhD is no guarantee of talent, or, indeed, of common sense. On ‘The Apprentice’ every other week Donald Trump, Lord Sugar and their various counterparts on other TV networks fire someone with a PhD for a catastrophic failure of common sense, with a qualified surgeon, for example, being fired last year for managing to deliver 16 bread rolls to a client out of an order for one thousand. Even the most lax university would not consider 0.16% a pass.

[WmCElliott]

I'm more concerned about acetaminophen (e.g., Tylenol). It's The Leading Cause of Acute Liver Failure in the US and UK.

It caused 51% of acute liver failures in 2003, but left out those who died from taking acetaminophen with alcohol - The combination is significantly worse than either, as the two combine in the liver and block each other's metabolism, but all liver disease among drinkers are routinely ascribed to alcoholism.

[fullm3tal90]

i dont want these fancy words just tell straight up which ones are the worst, i know meth, and coke are extremely bad what other ones ???

[alaxmartin2007]

You Jokers are the worst. Investigating a B rate pain killer that helps more than hurts. Congrats guys for doing nothing but hurting peop;e.