The FDA has decided after fifty years it's time to get tough with Darvon. Surprisingly the drug is apparently still popular in the States, if only amongst drug abusers. Here, I have only a single patient who still uses this mild narcotic. The patient is in her eighties and has apparently used the drug forever, twice a day. She lost her family doc recently and so I've had to prescribe her Darvon for her. I was rather uncomfortable at first, this drug having been out of fashion before I even graduated from med school, so many years ago. I kind of worried what the pharmacist might think. I eventually got over the weirdness and now, in fact, I kind of like playing Dr. Marcus Welby whenever I see her.
"So, do you think you might need your librium topped up as well?"
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