HealthWatch: FDA Calls For Re-Packaging Of Popular Antidiarrheal Drug
BOSTON (CBS) — Imodium is a popular over-the-counter medication used to treat diarrhea, but the FDA is calling on changes to Imodium’s packaging due to concerns about abuse of the drug.
Health officials say high doses can lead to serious cardiac problems and even death.
The active ingredient in Imodium, loperamide, has opioid-like effects and some people use it to get a quick high or to help minimize withdrawal symptoms from other opioids, which requires large doses which not only causes debilitating constipation but also potentially fatal heart rhythms and even death.
The FDA hopes that if Imodium is offered in in...
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The American Heart Association issued a stark warning Thursday for women with breast cancer: Life-saving therapies like chemotherapy and radiation can cause heart failure and other serious cardiac problems, sometimes years after treatment. The organization said patients and doctors shouldn’t avoid the treatments but instead take steps to prevent or minimize the cardiac risks. And […]Related:Social egg freezing is a numbers game that many women don’t understandFDA wants to curb abuse of Imodium, ‘the poor man’s methadone’This flu season is on track to be the worst in nearly a decade (Source: ...
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The FDA Is Cracking Down on Imodium and Other Anti-Diarrhea Medicine Because of the Opioid Epidemic
(WASHINGTON) — U.S. health regulators on Tuesday asked makers of popular anti-diarrhea drugs to sell their medications in smaller amounts to make them harder to abuse.
The request comes amid a spike in overdoses from large doses of the over-the-counter drugs, which contain a small amount of an opioid.
The Food and Drug Administration wants manufacturers to package their medications in smaller quantities, such as eight tablets per package. Currently, some generic versions are sold in boxes of up to 200 tablets. The FDA said it also plans to ask online retailers to make it harder to order bulk amounts of the drugs.
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FDA cracks down on abuse of anti-diarrhea medication
Some addicts take huge doses of loperamide – sold under the brand name Imodium A-D – to try to ease withdrawal or maintain a high (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
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Director Brenda Fitzgerald, who joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention only in midsummer, held "complex financial interests" that had repeatedly forced her to recuse herself from the agency's activities and kept her from testifying before lawmakers on public health issues. Her new boss, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, announced Wednesday morning […]Related:A couple returned from vacation with itchy feet. Hookworms were tunneling through their skin.Social egg freezing is a numbers game that many women don’t understandFDA wants to curb abuse of Imodium, ‘the poor man’s me...
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Opioid Crisis Leads FDA To Restrict Imodium
Because opioid abusers are using the drug in greater numbers, the FDA is requesting that makers "change the way they label and package these drugs, to stem abuse and misuse," Gottlieb said. (Source: WebMD Health)
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Responding to Opioid Crisis, FDA Puts More Restrictions on Imodium
Title: Responding to Opioid Crisis, FDA Puts More Restrictions on ImodiumCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/30/2018 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/31/2018 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Digestion General)
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FDA Cracks Down On Imodium Abuse
Loperamide, a drug with opiate effects used to treat short term bouts of diarrhea, and the active ingredient in Imodium AD sold OTC, is now in the cross hairs of the FDA in an effort to reduce abuse of this opiate analog, often called the “poor man’s methadone.” (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 31, 2018 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Robert Glatter, MD, Contributor Source Type: news
FDA Cracks Down On OTC Imodium Abuse
Loperamide, a drug with opiate effects used to treat short term bouts of diarrhea, and the active ingredient in Imodium AD sold OTC, is now in the cross hairs of the FDA in an effort to reduce abuse of this opiate analog, often called the “poor man’s methadone.” (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 31, 2018 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Robert Glatter, MD, Contributor Source Type: news
Young mum died after taking 'high level' of diarrhoea drug
Brooklyn-Marie Barker, from Croxteth, Liverpool, died after taking a 'high level' of the diarrhoea drug Imodium which caused the 23-year-old to suffer a heart attack. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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A couple returned from vacation with itchy feet. Hookworms were tunneling through their skin.
It started with an itch after a stroll on a Caribbean beach, but in just a few days it had morphed into a gut-churning travel nightmare. In mid-January Eddie Zytner and Katie Stephens, a couple from Windsor, Ontario, went on a vacation to Punta Cana, a resort town on the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic. At some […]Related:Social egg freezing is a numbers game that many women don’t understandFDA wants to curb abuse of Imodium, ‘the poor man’s methadone’This flu season is on track to be the worst in nearly a decade (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
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Anti-diarrhea drug linked to soaring rate of deaths
Loperamide, sold as Imodium, slows down the movement of the gut to make stool less watery using an opioid, which induces a high akin to OxyContin. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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FDA wants to curb abuse of Imodium, ‘ the poor man ’ s methadone ’
The Food and Drug Administration is asking manufacturers of over-the-counter anti-diarrhea treatments to change the way they package their products in an effort to curb abuse by people with drug addictions. Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement Tuesday that the agency was taking the “novel” action because of growing concerns that abuse of Imodium […]Related:Social egg freezing is a numbers game that many women don’t understandThis flu season is on track to be the worst in nearly a decadeHere’s what you should know about the flu season this year (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
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FDA Acts to Stem Misuse, Abuse of Antidiarrheal Loperamide FDA Acts to Stem Misuse, Abuse of Antidiarrheal Loperamide
The FDA moves to limit the number of loperamide doses per package amid ongoing reports of serious cardiac problems and deaths with misuse and abuse of the antidiarrhea medication.News Alerts (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - January 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Gastroenterology News Alert Source Type: news
Responding to Opioid Crisis, FDA Puts More Restrictions on Imodium
TUESDAY, Jan. 30, 2018 -- Increasingly, people addicted to opioid painkillers are using dangerously high doses of the diarrhea drug Imodium (loperamide), either to get high or to help ease withdrawal.
So, on Tuesday the U.S. Food and Drug... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
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