UK: Alert as thousands of packs of Nurofen Plus could contain anti-psychotic drugs

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[size=+1]Alert as thousands of packs of Nurofen Plus could contain anti-psychotic drugs[/size]
By Mirror.co.uk 25/08/2011

People are being warned to check packs of Nurofen Plus after it emerged that thousands of them could mistakenly contain anti-psychotic drugs.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) issued a safety alert following reports that some batches of Nurofen Plus contain individual blister packs of another drug, Seroquel XL 50mg.

The mix-up is believed to have happened at a wholesaler's and thousands of packs could potentially be affected, prompting the MHRA to urge extra vigilance.

The packs have been found in pharmacies across the UK.

Seroquel XL is a prescription-only anti-psychotic drug used to treat several disorders including schizophrenia, mania and bipolar depression.



Full article: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...contain-anti-psychotic-drugs-115875-23371325/
 
Very odd

This is very odd, how the hell can this mix-up happen when the drugs are manufactured by different companies, unless they use the same company to package the meds into boxes.
 
If the world was a more just place, the switch-up would have been with a more enjoyable prescription medication: Desoxyn, Dilaudid etc. (Discounting, of course, the horrors of addiction and other related phenomena. I still think it would be god damn sweet to get some o' dat real analgesia with a fat dash of euphoria if I was expecting Ibuprofen.)
 
Hehe, yeah it would be great if they'd put something good in instead!

I guess it's pretty obvious they're not ibuprofen, pills will be much smaller, it'll say seroquel (quetiapine 50mg) on the blister pack...
 
^ yes, seroquel would also probably knock you out. It'd suck to end up taking seroquel accidentally though especially if you took a bunch for a mild codeine high.
 
hmm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2030126/Nurofen-plus-recall-Animal-rights-protesters-suspected-painkiller-sabotage.html

Pharmacists have been told to check every pack of Nurofen Plus to look for anti-psychotic drugs after sabotaged packs were found in Boots stores across London.
The move comes after a safety alert was issued yesterday when packets of the popular painkiller were found to contain Seroquel XL, a powerful drug used to treat schizophrenia.
It is thought militant activists carried out the sabotage operation with the intention of damaging Nurofen Plus’s makers, Reckitt Benckiser.
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Well so says the DM.
 
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