“Increasingly, people addicted to opioid painkillers are using dangerously high doses of the diarrhea drug Imodium (loperamide), either to get high or to help ease withdrawal.
So, on Tuesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it’s putting new restrictions on the packaging of the medication, dubbed by some as “the poor man’s methadone.”
“When higher than recommended doses are taken we’ve received reports of serious heart problems and deaths with loperamide, particularly among people who are intentionally misusing or abusing high doses,” FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said in an agency news release.”
Source: Consumer.Healthday.com – January 30, 2018
