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MJ’s Doctor Missing ?

Posted by Tommy On June - 26 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

26jackson_2-600The sudden death of the King Of Pop has sent shock waves around the world. The Los Angeles police have already started investigating the nature of the death of Michael Jackson.

The police were unable to contact Michael Jackson’s personal doctor whose name was not disclosed by the police. The police have impounded the doctor’s car and the doctor has not yet made any contact to recover his car.

It is reported that Michael Jackson died just minutes after the doctor injected a pain killer after Mr.Jackson suffered a cardiac arrest.

“We need to conduct further interviews and the car might contain medications or other evidence that could assist the coroner,” Amanda Betat, a Los Angeles Police spokeswoman said.

Ms. Betat said that the doctor, whose name the police department did not release, “has not come to claim his vehicle.” She said that detectives spoke with the doctor briefly on Thursday about the pop singer before taking his car.

Strange ah!  The Ban on a particular Painkiller by the Medical agency Regulators has actually decreased Suicides and Accident to a large Extent .

The Pain Killer that was banned earlier 2007  is  “co-proxamol “. This Pain Killer is supposed to be dangerous when it is Overdosed and hence  The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency announced its withdrawal in 2005. Its license was terminated  in 2007.

The  Reports suggest that by banning the drug around 350 fewer cases of Suicides and accidents in England and Wales was reported . When compared to other Pain killers, No other pain killers  kill  the inhealer. The Co- Proxamol is the lone pain killer that causes fatigue when overdosed.

But few patients complaint that they need Co-Proxamol as they cannot withstand the pain. It was reported by Arthritis Care where few patients now struggle to control their pain. This proves that the withdrawal of the drug has been unpopular to some people. But this move is must cause one of the leading  research center found out the danger of the pain killer.

Study leader Professor Keith Hawton, director of the Centre for Suicide Research at Oxford University, said before the restrictions co-proxamol was responsible for a fifth of all drug-related suicides.

The GP somehow mamaged to change the pain killer to its patients by the year 2007, before the licence was blocked. Ineffective to its move, the patients of  GP reported that they actually needed the drug for their intolerable pain.

Professor Hawton said authorities in the US were now considering withdrawing co-proxamol, which is a mixture of paracetamol and an opioid drug.

“This marked reduction in suicides and accidental poisonings involving co-proxamol during this period, with no evidence of an increase in deaths involving other analgesics, suggests the initiative has been effective,” he added.

In 2008, there were 380,831 prescription items for co-proxamol, showing some GPs are still prescribing the drug.

A spokesman for the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said prior to its withdrawal co-proxamol was involved in 300-400 self-poisoning deaths each year, of which around a fifth were accidental.

“Co-proxamol is extremely dangerous in overdose – only a small overdose can be fatal, and death can occur very rapidly – before medical attention can be sought.” He also added: “There is no robust evidence that co-proxamol offers any advantage over paracetamol or ibuprofen at normal doses.”