Co-Proxamol on YouTube and Dextropropoxyphene on Wikipedia
Dear Friend,
I hereby send you the script to my YouTube-video and the link to Wikipedia and Dextropropoxyphene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextropropoxyphene (English version)
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextropropoxifen (Swedish version)
Up to now 844 persons have looked at the video,
This is a message From
Ulf Jonasson, Doctor of Public Health on YouTube:
“Darvon, Distalgesic, Co-Proxamol – the worst drugs ever”
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jonasson+Darvon&search=Search
Friends,
I would like to tell you a story, a very sad story about a painkiller that has beenaround in the American society since 1957 – that is exactly 50 years. The name ofthe drug is DARVON or DARVON-N or DARVOCET. It is basically the same drug. InEurope the drug is called DISTALGESIC or CO-PROXAMOL. The working substance inthe drug is PROPOXYPHENE or DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE as we call it in Europe.
We think drugs - containing PROPOXYPHENE - are the worst drugs ever, among prescribed drugs. No single drug in the history has caused so many fatal deaths asthese drugs have done during the last 50 years.
How come I can sit here and say that? Are you supposed to believe me?
We – my wife Birgitta and myself - Ulf Jonasson, we are both doctors, PhD:s – havestudied the dangers with PROPOXYPHENE since 1993, that is 13-14 years.
We have written and published 8 scientific articles about PROPOXYPHENE. We havealso written and defended two doctorial dissertations about the drug and its fatal consequences. And to get our alarming data outside the academic world, we also wrote a popular science version of our research that was published both in Swedishand English. The English name of the book is “Fatalities due to use or misuse of painkillers “
We think we have studied the consequences of using PROPOXYPHENE in a quite proper way, and therefore we will tell this sad story about a drug that probably have killed more people than any drug in the history.
One of the Big Pharmas in US, Eli Lilly “invented” PROPOXYPHENE in 1953 and it tooksome years before it came out on the market. There was a need for a painkiller without side effects in the early 50s – and Lilly found PROPOXYPHENE. Have you heard this story before - a drug without side effects???
The drug was called DARVON – I am sure you have heard about it - and it became immediately very popular. It was not for the pain killing effects the drug became a financial success. Later on, studies showed that the pain killing effect was not better than aspirin or acetaminophen – like Tylenol. The users felt good, because DARVONi s an opiate – close to methadone, morphine and heroin – and it influence you rbrain, you feel good. The drug influences your Central Nervous System.
As I told you before, we have studied PROPOXYPHENE since 1993. Our main resultwas that during the investigated years 1992 – 1999 - 8 years - 200 persons in Sweden, were poisoned to death every year due to PROPOXYPHENE – poisoning. 200 persons died every year because they used a very popular painkiller and we thingthis was very alarming. Sweden is a quite small country we have just about 9 millioni nhabitants. In United States there are soon 300 million inhabitants and we knew, thanks to international statistics, that the American people used even more PROPOXYPHENE that the Swedish people did. Is it therefore possible for us to assume that there is more that 30 times as many fatal deaths in United States as in Sweden.
Yes, we think so.
If we look at the consumption of PROPOXYPHENE in United States compared to Sweden, we find some very interesting figures. The average consumption of PROPOXYPHENE in Sweden - during the investigated years 1992-1999 - was 2 400kg/year. In United States you consumed an average of 99 400 kg/year. It is morethan 41 times as much in US than in Sweden. Is it possible that the numbers of fataldeaths in US are 4 times more??? What do you think?
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Dr Ulf Jonasson =email=