HARM FROM PHENACETIN
Excessive Use Blamed (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, Aug. 13. The harmful effects of phenacetin and other common pain-killing drugs were due mostly to excessive use. said Professor S E. Wright, head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Sydney University. Professor Wright said many people addicted to phenacetin and similar drugs did not allow enough time for the drugs to pass through their bodies. "It takes about eight hours, for example, for phenacetin to pass through the body, and after that very little of the drug is left,” he said. “But when people continue to take the drug within that period it sets up a toxic state which can have harmful effects.”
Professor Wright will be one of three speakers presenting papers on phenacetin poisoning at a seminar conducted by the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Pharmaceutical Science.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29900, 14 August 1962, Page 14
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