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Tramadol (ULTRAM®) Warning.
Another " non-addictive" drug bites the dust.
Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, manufacturer of the " non-addictive" drug Tramadol (ULTRAM®) sent out a warning letter to U.S. physicians on March 20th, 1996. This new and expensive pain-killer was supposed to have been non-addictive, despite the fact that it works in the brain at the same place as all other opiates. Several million prescriptions later, actual experience differed from limited laboratory trials. The manufacturer now is advising physicians of this drug's potential for dependence, withdrawal and abuse.
Once again, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, the probability is high that it is a duck.
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