Experts say that if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chooses to ban Vicodin and Percocet as its advisory panel suggests, the move won't be too drastic because alternatives exist. Both of these medications contain an opioid (narcotic) painkiller and acetaminophen, the painkiller found in Tylenol. The FDA panel made this recommendation because of concerns about liver damage from users unknowlingly taking too-high doses of acetaminopen. But pain specialists say the problem isn't either...
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