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There is no medicine to circumvent Prohibition

02/15/2013

 


Laboratory manager manufacturer rebate Metadoxil drug use to nullify blood alcohol and says that mixing drinking and driving results in death
Fernanda Aranda, iG Sao Paulo | 02/14/2013 17:53:46
Metadoxil not fool breathalyzer, says manufacturer
In 2008, the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) has approved the use and sale of Metadoxil. It is a drug derived from vitamin B6, indicated to treat the sequelae of liver abusive consumers of alcohol, but it gained a reputation for being able to fool the traffic agents and breathalyzer.
This is because, in the same year of product launch, the federal government enacted legislation that stiffened the penalty and fine for those who were caught driving after drinking, even in moderation, Liqueurs.
Even then, information about the controversial Metadoxil started popping up on the internet, in bars and in clubs. The news they realized that a pill box could cancel in 60 minutes, the presence of alcohol in the body and thus allow burlassem drunk drivers to law enforcement.
Nearly five years have passed and the fame of the remedy resurfaced with the federal decision to harden further rigor of Prohibition. IG Health interviewed the manager of the medical laboratory Baldacci, manufacturer Metadoxil to understand whether the drug - which can only be sold upon presentation of a prescription - in fact calls into question the breathalyzer information. "No," replies the cardiologist Paulo Roberto Chizzola, a year ahead of the pharmaceutical.
He strongly refutes misuse of medication, decided to warn about improper use of medication in social networks and has already started a campaign against the fame gained by medicine. In the interview, he says that "there is no medicine to circumvent Prohibition and that there is no remedy for drinking and driving." According to him, the result of the mixture is death. "It's what I see, unfortunately, every day," he laments.

Read the interview

iG Health: The fame that Metadoxil can circumvent the prohibition is harmful?
Chiazzola: Yes Our evidence shows that it is an excellent drug with pharmacological action, used as part of treatment of alcoholism, a serious disease. The misuse of drugs is very bad for the laboratory and also for those who need to use the medication. It seems that the only purpose of this tablet is (dry break the law), when we know that the goal is another. All existing drugs used are bad. Just to cite one example, we have Viagra, men who are facing a serious problem of erectile dysfunction but is also used by young people who just want to complain without sexual power at any cost. The population eliminates unauthorized access to medicines, which is too bad. The Metadoxil is not without adverse effects if used improperly (tachycardia and commitment are some of the liver). It acts on the central nervous system and has action in the liver. The purpose is to accelerate liver function in the process of metabolizing alcohol and other toxic substances, indicated for those with injuries or organ is deeply intoxicated by alcoholic beverages.

By having this end, this association appeared that he would be able to circumvent Prohibition.

iG Health: The laboratory, beyond the consuming public, also prepares a letter of clarification to doctors. Why they decided to also alert the professionals?
Chiazzola: If the doctor does not have good guidance in relation to drugs after the first news of the lay press, he proceeds to ignore the drug for the treatment of alcoholism. The professional may believe it is a 'medication breathalyzer', as it has been called, and that there is no drug to circumvent Prohibition. The use can speed up the metabolism of alcohol but does not the person a violator of the law. The recommendation of the police, even if the driver is wait 12 hours to drive if you have been drinking. There is no magic.

iG Health: And you could identify as the source of this disclosure that is a remedy for Prohibition? In some reports, users say the statement, unofficial, came from doctors and pharmacists
Chiazzola: Do not know where this rumor came about. I can not deny that the use accelerates the metabolism of alcohol, but this does not indicate that the person can continue drinking. Abstinence is a condition for the positive effects of the drug. I'm in the lab a year ago, I did part of the launch, but when I got to the lab meetings to relançássemos the product to deviate from this association deception of Prohibition. The strongest evidence we have shown that the drug improves liver diseases already installed. We have also given it can be a tool to reduce the desire to drink, as it acts in the brain near the brain receptors. But all this within a medical treatment, with expert guidance.

iG Health: Treatment of alcoholism is complex, multifactorial, and experts claim they are still limited therapeutic options and are almost always required different actions. The drug treats alcoholism of you?
Chiazzola: Alcoholism has some stages of evolution. What we have in daily practice is a growing use of alcohol and a society which neglects the abuse and harmful when it is not in a phase of chronic addiction. But before getting to chronic alcoholism, as many sequels are important. There is an intensive propaganda that encourages the use of alcohol. Youngsters have fun, confined in small rooms, only drink consumed. The cardiac and hepatic complications resulting from this abuse are disregarded even by doctors. Hardly, clinicians ask their patients about the historical use of liquor. Well, first we must warn that the harmful consumption of alcohol is harmful at any stage and cause damage. The Metadoxil is an excellent tool recommended by doctors, for situations where it is found high consumption of alcohol in a phase in which the social harms such as family dysfunction, have not yet appeared, but there are already signs of physical impairment in liver function .

iG Health: In this campaign, you want to trigger the ANVISA and the Board of Pharmacy to curb sale without prescription and misuse?
Chiazzola: no action directed not elaborate, but hopefully the sanitary inspection and pharmacists to fulfill their role. There is no remedy for drinking and driving. It is forbidden to drink, but drinking and driving is prohibited. Mixing alcohol and driving results in death. It is unfortunately what I see every day. Youth who did not come home because they died on the way. Therefore, we favor Prohibition rigid.


Source: Ig

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