Pharma Company Has to Recall a Shipment After Mixing Up Viagara and Anti-Depressants
Source - A pharmaceutical distributor has voluntarily recalled packages of Viagra and drugs used to treat depression after a 'product mix-up' caused them to be packaged together.
AvKARE announced on Wednesday one lot of sildenafil and one lot of trazodone tablets were 'inadvertently packaged together during bottling at a 3rd party facility'.
The 100mg sildenafil tablets and the 100mg trazodone tables are being recalled at the consumer level, according to AvKARE's statement.
Sildenafil is the active ingredient in Viagra, which is used for the treatment of erectile dysfunction and is packaged in 100-count bottles.
Trazodone hydrochloride is indicated for the treatment of major depressive disorder and is packaged in 1,000-count bottles.
First of all, this sounds like the set up for a bad late night talk show monologue joke:
"So did you see where AvKARE, this big pharmaceutical company - is in trouble because they mixed up a shipment of Viagara and an anti-depressant medication? It's true. It's true. Yeah, it seems the way they found out is some of their patients with depression kept saying that life is still hard, but in a GOOD way! HEYYY YOOO! And it seems [insert name of sidekick or band leader] mistook some Viagara for his back pills. Now he's complaining of a swelling in his neck!"
The thing is, over the last 10 years or so no one was being more vilified in this country that the drug companies. Any time a candidate for office wanted an applause line, all they had to so was rant about how Big Pharma is making huge profits and screwing the little guy. While at the same time most of us are walking around with an entire Walgreens running through our veins. And I'm not here to stick up for them, because there's is an industry that has no margin for error and mistakes like this simply can't happen. Like that old saying about doctors goes, a carpenter can cover up a mistake with paint, a baker can cover up mistakes with frosting, but a drug company covers their mistakes with six feet of dirt. So get your shit together, AvKARE, before you have a holocaust on your hands.
That said, they did kind of dodge a bullet on this one. I shudder to think what would've happened if they mixed up, say, strong pain killers with baby aspirins or birth control with fertility pills. I don't pretend to understand how meds work, but I'd have to think that in some small way, anti-depressants and Dr. Porkenheimer's Boner Juice would have the same beneficial effects. I mean, how sad can you be when you've got raging wood going? Sure, you might be chemically imbalanced, lonely, introverted and filled with dark thoughts that require serious medical help. But thick, stiff erection should help, even just a little.
And besides, and this is a true story, Viagara was originally developed to be a heart medicine. It didn't perform as Pfizer had hoped in clinical tests, so they asked their subjects to send back the samples. And something weird happened. Almost none of them did. When the company asked why they were keeping pills that didn't do what they were made for, they all reported the same thing: Surprise boners. Very, very welcome surprise boners. Maybe we'll find the same thing helps depression sufferers. I bet it can't hurt.
Anyway, clean it up, Pharma, so you can get back to curing Covid. In which case you're going to need all the ED medicine you can manufacture.