Opioid addicts abusing diarrhea medicine
<p>People addicted to opioids have found a way to get high off anti-diarrhea medication, too.</p>
<p>The problem is serious enough that U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb asked makers of loperamide, sold over the counter as Imodium AD, to <a href="https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-limits-packaging-anti-diarrhea-medicine-loperamide-imodium-encourage-safe-use" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">change the way they package the product.</a></p>
<p>Today <a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-brief/fda-brief-fda-approves-new-packaging-brand-name-over-counter-loperamide-help-curb-abuse-and-misuse?utm_campaign=092019_FIB_FDA+approves+new+packaging+for+brand-name+loperamide&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua.++Accessed+September+20%2C+2019." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">the medication comes in blister packs</a>. You cannot buy more than 48 grams per package.</p>
<p>I knew that opioid use causes constipation. Have you seen the commercial with the good-looking middle-aged man at the construction site, happy his pain is gone but all bound up? Making jokes about it?</p>
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