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11. Triple Buffered Pain-B-Gone

Reply to prole_for_peace (Reply #8)

Thu May 3, 2012, 04:42 PM

May 2012

I read a science fiction story where corporations take over all aspects of our government, and push heavily advertised near-useless products on everyone.

Anyone using anything not officially sold by the government is sent to gulags.
Including aspirin.

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FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Banning Vicodin and Percocet [View all] SoCalDem May 2012 OP

solution: remove the acetaminophen. problem solved! dionysus May 2012 #1

Acetaminiphen can also be replaced with ibuprofen and aspirin. HopeHoops May 2012 #2

Vicoprofen abolugi May 2012 #3

The reasoning is fair. backscatter712 May 2012 #4

Blasphemy! Quantess May 2012 #5

The problem is with the acetaminophen. backscatter712 May 2012 #9

Well, that's true, I guess. Quantess May 2012 #13

Just the usual... Archae May 2012 #6

and those of us terrible chronic pain? cali May 2012 #7

My wife's doctor made her sign a "pain contract" SomethingFishy May 2012 #10

they're actually bringing to market a hydrocodone drug without acetominephen soon, i read. dionysus May 2012 #12

Or people who need the occasional painkiller after surgery? Retrograde May 2012 #14

First they took my Darvocet prole_for_peace May 2012 #8

Triple Buffered Pain-B-Gone Archae May 2012 #11