The FDA is requiring makers of painkillers containing propoxyphene, the ingredient in widely used Darvon and Darvocet, to add a warning box to the label highlighting the potential for overdose. [CNN]
The agency says that from 1969 to 2005, 91 deaths were related to drug overdoses and suicide attempts involving medications containing propoxyphene. Darvon and Darvocet are made by Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Newport, Kentucky.
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