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FDA warns of breathing risks with popular nerve drugs:
U.S. health regulators are warning that popular nervous system medications can cause dangerous breathing problems when combined with opioids and certain other drugs.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it would add new warnings to packaging for Neurontin, Lyrica and generic versions, which are used to treat seizures, nerve pain, restless leg syndrome and other conditions.
The new labels will warn doctors against prescribing the drugs with other medications that can slow breathing, including opioid painkillers. The breathing risks also apply to elderly patients and those with existing lung problems.
The medications, known generically as gabapentin and pregabalin, are among most prescribed in the U.S. Both physician prescribing and misuse have increased as doctors, hospitals and other health care providers have scaled back their use of opioids amid a national epidemic.
Poison control centers have reported increased calls involving the nerve drugs, which are often abused in combination with opioids, cocaine and marijuana. Neurontin and related drugs have long been considered nonaddictive and are not tracked as closely by regulators.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 22 2019, @01:43AM (5 children)
Fucking millennials.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 22 2019, @01:53AM (2 children)
Millennials been conditioned from birth to buy anything that's sold to them and have minimal critical thinking skills. Can you blame the pharmaceutical companies for taking advantage of this opportunity by making up diseases and then selling "cures"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 22 2019, @08:10AM
Then why are they killing [mashable.com] so many things? And that list is from 2017.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 22 2019, @10:20PM
Neurontin has been given to half of my aging relatives between the ages of 50 and 90.
That is some fucked up shit before getting into drug related interactions too.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 22 2019, @02:28AM
The whole opioid thing -- hand them out like candy and then be like LOL J/K you don't get anymore tough it out is an affliction usually attributed to older folks.
What I'm noticing with the younger folks is that the same thing is happening with them, except with benzodiazepines. Now you have "just to let you know this doctor doesn't hand out Xanax" disclaimers in psych intake appointments and so now bar-babies and Clonopin-clowns have to buy them at street prices. I never understood the appeal of those drugs, besides being date-rape drugs, because the couple of times I tried them they were more of the memory loss than alcohol without all of the fun. There's a reason why Florence and the Machine and all the other bands that sound even remotely like that are called "Xanax music."
The only time a pillhead is capable of being fun is when they're on MDMA, and even that gets old when the shit wears off and you're stuck with a flat unemotional automaton.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Magic Oddball on Sunday December 22 2019, @02:48AM
Given it's been known medically for a few hundred years and most often afflicts older adults, pregnant women, people in renal failure, etc. I'd say it has nothing to do with millennials:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restless_legs_syndrome [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Gaaark on Sunday December 22 2019, @12:35PM (1 child)
Just drink tonic water and get off the drugs: the quinine is a muscle relaxant and works great!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday December 22 2019, @06:34PM
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