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Rheumatology Advance Access published online on January 10, 2008
Rheumatology, doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kem281
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Letter to the Editor

Co-proxamol: where have all the patients gone?

L. Ottewell and D. J. Walker

Musculoskeletal Unit, The Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, UK

Correspondence to: Correspondence to: D. J. Walker. E-mail: d.walker@ncl.ac.uk; david.walker@nuth.nhs.uk

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SIR, The Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) advised withdrawal of co-proxamol in January 2005 as it was judged that the risk of accidental death by overdose and the drug's frequent use in suicide outweighed its benefits as a painkiller. We were struck by the number of patients who seemed to be coming to the clinic complaining that they were unable to find an effective alternative. A typical complaint would be that they had been on . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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