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Case in point: propoxyphene (Darvon), which for the elderly offers no better pain relief than aspirin or Tylenol and is known to be addictive. Yet more than 6% of the seniors surveyed had been prescribed propoxyphene. Even more serious are a variety of modern tranquilizers and hypnotics, such as flurazepam (Somnol) and chlordiazepoxide (Librium). These medicines can lead to falls and hip fractures...
...life. My nascent marriage was showing signs of miscarrying. A contracted novel I had completed was about to be rejected. During the writing of that doomed book, I had taken to ingesting prolific amounts of narcotics. I didn't take these drugs--Vicodin, Percocet, Dilaudid, morphine sulfate, Talwin, Darvon, codeine, the occasional balloon of street heroin--to help me write; I took them to make me feel better about how badly I was writing...
Just as A.H. Robins was filing for bankruptcy last week because of a product- liability case, another leading drug company, Eli Lilly, was having its own legal problems. Lilly, a maker of drugs (Darvon, a pain killer) and fragrances (Chloe), faced charges concerning Oraflex, a medicine for arthritis...
Lilly, the largest maker of prescription drugs in the U.S., has long been respected for its insulin and antibiotics. But it has had troubles with other products. Lilly developed Darvon, a painkiller that Ralph Nader's health group has attacked as being addictive, and marketed DES, a pregnancy drug that researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital linked to cancer. The company plans to appeal the Oraflex decision. With so many more cases still to be decided, Lilly has a huge stake in the outcome...
Says one doctor: "I think we could give the Shah a prescription for Darvon and send him back to Mexico...