By Windsor Genova
AHN.com

(O)n Friday…(January 30, 2009)…(a)n advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…recommended banning a pain-relieving drug linked to deaths, including suicides, and for being addictive. The…recommendation of withdrawing Darvon or Darvocet, which is also known by its generic name propoxyphene, came 30 years after its ban was first sought by the consumers group Public Citizen.

The drug, made by Eli Lilly and marketed by Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals and Qualitest/Vintage Pharmaceuticals, was approved in 1957. It was banned in the United Kingdom in 2005…

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