'Purple Drank' Drug Cocktail Linked To France's Latest Reverse-Switch

 
• By Tom Gallen

Promethazine has been reverse-switched from OTC to prescription status in France, with rising abuse of the drug in the so-called Purple Drank cocktail one of the motivating factors for the move by the country's health ministry.

Pharmacovigilance (PV or PhV), also known as drug safety, is the pharmacological science to detection, monitoring, and prevention of adverse effects with pharmaceutical product. Medical safety concept
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