Re: Pain Medication

From: Steve & Eryl Raymond (eryl@intekom.co.za)
Tue Jul 18 04:49:33 2000


Aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid which comes from the bark of the willow tree!

Sorry, have no idea what tylenol is - what's its generic name?

As for God making poppies and making them safe, I wonder what the poppy growers of Turkey and Thailand and the heroin they produce have received from God?

>... Gee, we're creating a population of ADDICTS, according to
>the package insert!

>Your scenario of the lady taking lots of vicoden is complicated by
>the tylenol. THAT is clearly a co-conspirator in many hepatotoxic
>insults, including alcohol. I think we underplay the role of
>acetominophen and liver damage, just like we underplay the role
>of NSAIDs and kidney damage (although we had a thread on her
>a while ago about Toradol...).

>[For my money, narcotics are about the safest medicine there is,
>when used wisely. Probably, that's why God made poppies...
>what plant does tylenol or aspirin come from? LOL]

>Joe P.

Dr. Steve Raymond Head of Department of O & G Empangeni Hospital Empangeni SOUTH AFRICA 3880 Ph:(+27)(035)77721111





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