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razzle51
12-23-2007, 12:11 PM
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-patch22dec22,1,4417645.story?coll=la-news-a_section

metronycguy
12-24-2007, 10:04 AM
razzle , glad you posted this .
i wonder what the ratio are from the generic to the brandname

New Deaths Spur Renewed FDA Fentanyl Patch Warning
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Two years after the FDA warned that fentanyl transdermal devices were linked to 120 deaths, patients are still dying because physicians still misprescribe the patches and patients still misuse them, the agency warned today. full story

http://www.medpagetoday.com/ProductAlert/Prescriptions/dh/7782

duge
12-24-2007, 10:13 AM
I would like to know the answer to that question also Metron. My Dr. was Very adament of me NOT to use the generic patch. She said they were dangerous. I had to try it and see how it worked or not so insurance would pay for the name brand, but when I did I woke up the next morning broke out all over my back and my arms and that was all of the generic for me, but I still wonder if that's part of the reason she didn't want me on them.