Posted by Elizabeth on May 16, 2001, at 18:39:42
In reply to Re: Methadone, Propoxyphene and APAP » Elizabeth, posted by dougb on May 15, 2001, at 16:52:21
> Once you take away the apap or ibuprofen, the drug is reclassified as a Schedule II narcotic, go figure; they take away toxicity and re-categorize it as more dangerous.
Exactly! (As a lawyer friend put it when I explained the drug laws to him: "you mean they add poison to it to make it safer???")
OTOH, Percocet (oxycodone + APAP) is C-II (I assume that Percodan (oxycodone + aspirin) is too, but you never hear about that one anymore).
> During the 60's-70's with all of it's preoccupation with pot, etc. The predominant mind-set amoung that group was questioning of authority and questioning of the desirabilty of one's participation in the 'american dream' etc etc.
So I hear. Did you see the movie _Pleasantville_? It was billed as this lighthearted little comedy, but really it's quite subversive. (This becomes a little bit painfully obvious later on in the film.) I assume it's a metaphor for the transformation of the '50s into the '60s.
-elizabeth
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