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Although the U.S. government has announced its plans to help reduce the number of people who abuse drugs as well as the number of people who fall ill or die because of drug abuse, some say the Obama administration should be allocating even more money to the cause.
The following article was published by the Associated Press on May 13th, 2010:
If the FDA heeds the warnings of a federal advisory panel, Percocet and Vicodin, two powerful painkillers, could be banned from the US market. The panel recently voted to recommend a ban on the two drugs because of their damaging effects on the liver. Both drugs contain acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol and Excedrin, and high doses of acetaminophen are a leading cause of liver damage. The panel noted that people who take Percocet and Vicodin for long periods of time often need higher and higher doses to achieve the same painkilling effects.
Just two weeks after federal judges ordered California to reduce its prison population, an arm of the Schwarzenegger administration will vote on increased funding to police anti-drug units, which could put even more drug offenders in jail.
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