Posted by yxibow on July 21, 2008, at 2:31:37
In reply to Re: Carisoprodol, posted by BGB on July 20, 2008, at 3:31:36
> > But it is also quickly converted to meprobamate, Miltown, an old and discontinued attempt at a non barbiturate/non-Quaalude anxiolytic.
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> > It is still not a controlled substance in the US, but there are watching eyes on it -- personally, under the care of a watching doctor, that's fine, as long as there isn't other CNS depressants like any substantial amount of benzodiazepines. Some states would like to make it C-V or C-IV.
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> Is it not completely nonsensical that Soma is not a controlled substance but breaks down in the body into meprobamate, which is a Schedule 4???? Our government's infinite wisdom never ceases to amaze me.
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> By the way, in just a few states like Georgia, Soma IS legally classified as a Schedule 4. Sucks for me because it really is a great muscle relaxant, at least if taken only occasionally, but it's really hard to get a prescription for it here.
>Curious -- yes, now I remember there are a few exceptions like that, possibly in the name of the "war on drugs" that maybe Soma could become a street drug.
Soma was made back ages ago when a lot of currently specified testing on things weren't made standard.
It was more lax to get a medication through the FDA -- now everything has to be tested to satisfy the FDA and DEA to the nth degree. Even Lyrica, which I would say scarcely classifies as a controlled substance, is put as C-V.
If we didn't have the FDA we have now, we wouldn't have Tylenol, a life saving anti-pyretic, one really of only two in the arsenal of things, the other being aspirin (another ancient drug), which is now not used under 18 because of Reye's Syndrome (again never examined at the time or known about).Ibuprofen just doesn't really cut fever like acetaminophen, at least for me anyhow. It is primarily a pain agent.
Of course, not much above the standard dose of acetaminophen and you get into liver damage territory, something which unfortunately claims lives more in the UK -- but I won't go into details here for obvious reasons.
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