tylenol and low back pain

[nvrsumr]

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60805-9/abstract

I love all these studies that show nothing works for back pain. You have to wonder if there is a serious issue with the way we set up our medical studies when we get results that are so counterintuitive.

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[emd123]

And look at all the deaths from Tylenol, but little media hype at all. Why no buzzwords like Tylenol "epidemic" and "rampant over prescribing" of this "deadly drug" that doesn't do what "Big Pharma" says it should do?

Why don't we ban it, make it schedule II, arrest doctors who prescribe too much, and so on?

http://www.propublica.org/article/tylenol-mcneil-fda-behind-the-numbers

 

[Ducttape]

they have already given recommended limits - previously 4000 gm/day, then 3000 gm/day and now 2000 gm/day.

oh and this, from your article:

Data compiled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has linked as many as 980 deaths in a year to drugs containing acetaminophen...

Data obtained from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that more than 300 people die annually as a result of acetaminophen poisoning.

All we can say is that only a tiny fraction of people who take acetaminophen appear to suffer injuries or fatalities as a result. Adding up the highest estimates of injuries and deaths linked to acetaminophen would result in a total of a little over 110,000 incidents annually. About 27 billion doses were sold in 2009, the most recent year for which figures are publicly available. If all the pills were consumed, that would mean about one injury for every quarter million doses. In actuality, that almost certainly lowballs the rate of injuries, but by how much, nobody knows.

 

[lord_jeebus]

Duh. Only Dilaudid works for my back pain.