Medicinal products susceptible to 'dose dumping' should be fully...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 09/22/2009 - 22:00

(American Chemical Society) Controlled release pills and capsules that show a tendency in the standard laboratory test toward "dose dumping" -- releasing their medicine in a faster and potentially unsafe manner in patients who have consumed alcohol -- should be withheld from the market until proven safe with testing in people.

That's the conclusion of a review of existing studies in the September-October issue of ACS' Molecular Pharmaceutics, a bi-monthly journal.

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