Darvon, Darvocet, DIstalgesic- the worst drugs ever

We have studied the painkilling substance Propoxyphene – Darvon, Darvocet, Distalgesic and Co-Proxamol – since 1994 and we think these drugs are the worst drugs ever. If you want to know more about what we think, please go to YouTube ;

http://se.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5O4tgErsg

Drs Ulf and Birgitta Jonasson, Sweden

The argument seems to be that prophoxyphene combined with other common drugs becomes far more toxic than other opiates, and that the attributed deaths may be severely under-reported due to "the lack of disclosure of the generic firms ... if the US had the same system as the UK for taking blood samples and running tox screens on all unexpected deaths we would find the death rate from Darvon much higher than is presently reported." - from the comments of the YouTube vid above.

I can't jump on the side of a pharmaceutical company without seeing a clearer picture. The drug at least needs a period of closer scrutiny in the U.S. If the drug is truly weak with large risks for *regular* use, I can see the issue.

so why is it that all these legal drugs have killed so many people and yet they remain legal when there is a herb like marijuana witch has never killed anyone and never will but yet its still illegal and has be since 1937 why is that???????

Are they taking this drug off the market to give more profits to big pharma companies that are selling drugs still protected by patent?

Darvon is no longer protected by patent, which means the profit margins are slim.

With the war on pain doctors continuing, people will have just one more medication they cannot be prescribed. They can't get the opiates for their pain because the DEA has decided, it is bad for doctors to treat chronic pain that way. They have put doctors in prison for it, you know! Because, the DEA has all the brains to be able to tell you, they know more than your doctor! Sad thing is, there are too many laymen who think they are smarter than doctors, too! All I can do is hope, there really is a God! And, that they will suffer from chronic pain, one day, that no one will treat, out of fear of the repercussions from the authorities!

That is even a bigger reason to push for medical cannabis! There are many anecdotal claims that it helps the chronic pain patients decrease opiate need! Anecdotal, because the research has been prevented by the DEA! I guess they have no compassion for people in pain! They attack the problem from all sides!

The Journal of Pain (Vol. 10, Issue 2, February 2009, pp. 113-220) has just published a series of articles dealing with opioid treatment guidelines which may help frame the debate on the drug/pain issue.

Almost all, of the articles, called for further research in the "perspective" section. I cannot access the journal, other than reading the abstracts. Guidelines are supposed to be used as such---guides to treatment. So much of the time, organizations, like the DEA, try to make it "standard of care" and pervert the entire scientific process. Patients are not 100% capable of being treated within most guidelines. Although, many can be, effectively, treated that way. Since 95% of physicians will not treat chronic pain with opiates, the 5% that do are outliers. And we know what that will get you, if you have to deal with the DEA! Sort of ends up getting run like a democracy. Not any fun when you are the, minority, sheep amongst the, majority, wolves! You will be devoured! I like a Constitutional Republic better!

Thanks for the reference, Giordano

I am the life partner of a chronic pain patient who uses narcotics to get something approaching a life. Imagine feeling hot coals under you skin, razors slicing you if you shower, molten hot metal in your limbs every minute of every day. Welcome to CRPS(RSD) Cannabis does not help her much, so those who think it is a all purpose replacement for opiods are WRONG. Some freak that she needs these drugs to function. I guess a diabetic is a hopeless insulin junkie. Wean them off it now!! Those patients who need opiods have no rights that need be respected by anyone. I think Darvon isn't that great a drug but if it helps some people it should not be banned. Life is dangerous. If someone needs Oxycontin to have even a couple hours of activity a day what is so wrong with that? I am so sick of those who see opium based medication as the evil molecule. The DEA needs to get out of the medicine business and let people get the meds they need. If a few abuse it so what. If some die (usually form mixing with alcohol) so what. People die. Our obsession with preserving life at all costs makes the quality go to shit.

It sickens me to know that doctors go through 4 to 6 years of medical school ,only to be told they cant prescribe certain medications.
Or they are scared to death of prescribing opioiods to the people who need them the most, all people in chronic pain.

When Pain Specialist can no longer prescribe opioiods ,then there is a need for them ,therefore causing them to be sold illegally.
When there is a need for a drug and it can not be prescribed then the drug dealers see a need for it and next thing you know the streets are the next place to go to find pain relief.Don't the DEA know their causing this to happen by harassing our doctors that treat pain.

If they would just leave our doctors alone and let them do their job at helping those that suffer in chronic pain there would be less need for pain medications on the streets.Is that so hard to figure out.
When will our government wise up and leave our doctors alone.
People who suffer every day in pain will find relief one way or another,no one wants to suffer,but what's happening now is the DEA is creating a market for illegal drugs by withholding them from the people who need them the most.,people who suffer every day in Chronic pain.