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Just When you Thought Oxycontin was bad enough
With SO many people becoming so heavily addicted to Oxy's they needed to come out with something stronger?! Now this, I just don't really understand - we all know pain but to make Fentanel pills?!!!! Holy God.
Cephalon seeks ok for new use for cancer pain drug
By Linda Loyd
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Cephalon Inc. said today it submitted a supplemental new drug application to U.S. regulators to sell its cancer pain medicine Fentora for chronic pain, such as lower back and neuropathic pain.
Fentora, which is a tablet form of the narcotic drug fentanyl, is currently approved to treat "breakthrough," or rapid onset of severe pain, in patients who can tolerate opioid medicines, such as morphine, and are already taking pain medication for their underlying cancer pain.
Cephalon in September sent warning letters to doctors to alert patients of serious side effects, including several reported deaths, in patients who use Fentora improperly to treat post-operative pain or migraine headaches.
Cephalon shares rose 97 cents, or 1.26 percent, to $78.23 on the Nasdaq.
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Cephalon seeks ok for new use for cancer pain drug
By Linda Loyd
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Cephalon Inc. said today it submitted a supplemental new drug application to U.S. regulators to sell its cancer pain medicine Fentora for chronic pain, such as lower back and neuropathic pain.
Fentora, which is a tablet form of the narcotic drug fentanyl, is currently approved to treat "breakthrough," or rapid onset of severe pain, in patients who can tolerate opioid medicines, such as morphine, and are already taking pain medication for their underlying cancer pain.
Cephalon in September sent warning letters to doctors to alert patients of serious side effects, including several reported deaths, in patients who use Fentora improperly to treat post-operative pain or migraine headaches.
Cephalon shares rose 97 cents, or 1.26 percent, to $78.23 on the Nasdaq.
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As if the patches were not bad enough. atleast they were time released and you could get someone O.D.ing to the hospital. Now they can just take to many pills and there will be no time to save them from themselves. What's next pain med. adds on T.V. I can not imagine how many kids will die from this as if OXY has not killed enough yet.
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I just don't have a big problem with people who have chronic pain using the medication they need to treat it. I don't think narcotics should be prescribed lightly, but as a sufferer of migraines from age 12 on, I do think people should get them when they need them, and I think it should be left to the physician's discretion, not the medical board or insurance companies, to tell doctors how to treat their patients.
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