5 Special Interest Groups That Help Keep Marijuana Illegal

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3. The FDA advisory board voted earlier this year to eliminate Vicodin and Percocet..

http://www.homehealthtesting.com/blog/2010/02/vicodin-the-almost-illegal-drug/

but did you know that the FDA voted this past summer to recommend that Vicodin should be eliminated? The advisory panel that made this decision also singled out Percocet (a combination of oxycodone and acetaminophen). As the CNN article on the subject notes, these are just recommendations from an advisory panel – but typically, the FDA follows them.

It’s certainly a controversial matter considering how much press prescription drugs in general, and Vicodin in particular, have received in the past few years. The FDA made its recommendation based on the risk of overdose and severe liver injury, but they could have as easily made the recommendation based on drug abuse, as 9.7% of 12th graders said they tried Vicodin in 2008 (see the National Institute on Drug Abuse for more). Prescription drugs have become the new face of illicit drug use, and the string of tragic high-profile deaths drove that home last year.