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FDA: People are overdosing on anti-diarrhea drugs
June 7, 2016
WASHINGTON — Federal health officials are investigating sometimes-deadly overdoses with common anti-diarrhea drugs, a bizarre manifestation of the nation’s drug abuse problem.
The primary ingredient in prescription Imodium and similar over-the-counter drugs is intended to control diarrhea. But abusers sometimes try to achieve heroin-like highs by taking massive doses, up to 300 milligrams at once, according to cases in the medical literature. Recommended doses range between 8 milligrams and 16 milligrams per day.
The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors and patients Tuesday that the drugs can cause potentially deadly heart problems when taken at higher-than-recommended levels. The agency has received 31 reports of people hospitalized due to the heart problems, including 10 deaths over the last 39 years. The agency’s database is not comprehensive and many drug overdoses are not reported to the government.
But national poison centers reported a 71 percent increase in calls involving loperamide-containing drugs between 2011 and 2014, according to a journal article published last month in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
The paper’s authors recommended restricting over-the-counter sales of the anti-diarrhea drugs, similar to other easily abused medications like pseudoephedrine, the decongestant that can be processed into methamphetamine.
FDA regulators said in an online posting that they are monitoring the issue and considering next steps.
Reports of abuse are rising amid an epidemic of addiction and abuse involving opioids, a family of drugs that includes narcotics like heroin and legal prescriptions like morphine and oxycodone. In some cases, opioid abusers will attempt to wean themselves off those drugs by substituting the anti-diarrhea drugs.
cont http://www.denverpost.com/2016/06/07/fda-people-are-overdosing-on-anti-diarrhea-drugs/
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For people in the know do you ever just loom up at the sky and shake your head in total acceptance of the idiocy and unavoidable failure of the human race.
Who do we have working at the FDA.. the "report" mentioned by the article is total shit. remember statistics can be manipulated. A 71% increase sounds heavy right.
Well how many cases are we even talking about???
The FDA (Fucking Dumb Asses) are looking to regulate lope while they continue to ignore the oxy bill family and fight MJ. Really you just have to puke in your mouth at this point.
I don't even read shit from the fda any more unless im looking to invest money.
June 7, 2016
WASHINGTON — Federal health officials are investigating sometimes-deadly overdoses with common anti-diarrhea drugs, a bizarre manifestation of the nation’s drug abuse problem.
The primary ingredient in prescription Imodium and similar over-the-counter drugs is intended to control diarrhea. But abusers sometimes try to achieve heroin-like highs by taking massive doses, up to 300 milligrams at once, according to cases in the medical literature. Recommended doses range between 8 milligrams and 16 milligrams per day.
The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors and patients Tuesday that the drugs can cause potentially deadly heart problems when taken at higher-than-recommended levels. The agency has received 31 reports of people hospitalized due to the heart problems, including 10 deaths over the last 39 years. The agency’s database is not comprehensive and many drug overdoses are not reported to the government.
But national poison centers reported a 71 percent increase in calls involving loperamide-containing drugs between 2011 and 2014, according to a journal article published last month in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
The paper’s authors recommended restricting over-the-counter sales of the anti-diarrhea drugs, similar to other easily abused medications like pseudoephedrine, the decongestant that can be processed into methamphetamine.
FDA regulators said in an online posting that they are monitoring the issue and considering next steps.
Reports of abuse are rising amid an epidemic of addiction and abuse involving opioids, a family of drugs that includes narcotics like heroin and legal prescriptions like morphine and oxycodone. In some cases, opioid abusers will attempt to wean themselves off those drugs by substituting the anti-diarrhea drugs.
cont http://www.denverpost.com/2016/06/07/fda-people-are-overdosing-on-anti-diarrhea-drugs/
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For people in the know do you ever just loom up at the sky and shake your head in total acceptance of the idiocy and unavoidable failure of the human race.
Who do we have working at the FDA.. the "report" mentioned by the article is total shit. remember statistics can be manipulated. A 71% increase sounds heavy right.
Well how many cases are we even talking about???
The FDA (Fucking Dumb Asses) are looking to regulate lope while they continue to ignore the oxy bill family and fight MJ. Really you just have to puke in your mouth at this point.
I don't even read shit from the fda any more unless im looking to invest money.
