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Hey FDA, government doesn’t ban cars because people drive them off cliffs

The government doesn't ban cars just because some idiots drive cars off cliffs; it doesn't ban pencils because pencils can be shoved into the eye; and it [e.g., the FDA] has no business banning a painkiller just because some patients don't know how to use it correctly.

In response to the FDA’s possible ban of Percocet and Vicodin, Stella Zawistowski at ReasonPharm writes:

[The government doesn’t ban cars just because some idiots drive cars off cliffs; it doesn’t ban pencils because pencils can be shoved into the eye; and it [e.g., the FDA] has no business banning a painkiller just because some patients don’t know how to use it correctly.

Read the whole post: You don’t ban cars because people drive them off cliffs, part 2.

(via FIRM)