/b/veterinary-news/posts/44110 Eurovet has launched Comfortan, the first EU-authorised methadone in the UK, available as an injectable solution for use in dogs. Eurovet says that whilst methadone may seem an unfamiliar analgesic choice for some vets in practice, that is about toen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/b/veterinary-news/posts/44110Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:11:06 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:5d9f6f50-a93e-4952-ad4b-3b2fd80e40fdRob Loxley0<p>What do other people think of the move, for a schedule 2 CD, from individual glass vials to multidose bottles, as far as keeping track of where it all goes?</p> <img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/aggbug?PostID=44110&AppID=5&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://www.vetsurgeon.org/b/veterinary-news/posts/44110Sun, 04 Sep 2011 02:00:30 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:5d9f6f50-a93e-4952-ad4b-3b2fd80e40fdMartin Jones0<p>Gosh, Katie, do you have any evidence for your statement? Bless you.</p> <p>The practical effect of having licensed methadone will be, as Tony says, to hugely increase the cost of a useful analgesic for our patients; it will also become more notorious than the &#39;horse tranquiliser&#39; ketamine amongst people whose interest is less than innocent.</p> <p>Retrospective licensing is a cashing-in exercise; no more, no less.</p> <img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/aggbug?PostID=44110&AppID=5&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://www.vetsurgeon.org/b/veterinary-news/posts/44110Sun, 04 Sep 2011 01:47:43 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:5d9f6f50-a93e-4952-ad4b-3b2fd80e40fdkatie mountford0<p>The positive side of having a licenced version is that hopefully it will encourage vets to think about their analgesia provision a little more and realise there is more to it than just blindly giving a shot of buprenorphine to everything!</p> <img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/aggbug?PostID=44110&AppID=5&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://www.vetsurgeon.org/b/veterinary-news/posts/44110Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:48:04 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:5d9f6f50-a93e-4952-ad4b-3b2fd80e40fdAnonymous0<p>Great. Another drug we&#39;ve been using for decades, know all the safety details of, and now have to charge several times more for, because someone researched/purchased the answers to questions we all knew the relevant answers to anyway.`</p> <p>Am I meant to be grateful for this, Vomend, Zitac, etc. etc.?</p> <img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/aggbug?PostID=44110&AppID=5&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">