This decision followed a 12-week consultation exercise to gather further information on the risks and benefits of co-proxamol.

You should be careful when driving or operating machinery until you know your reaction to Co-proxamol.

They also contended that the amount of co-proxamol found was only about a third of what would normally be fatal.

Ms Bird, a mother of three, had gone to his home with her 13-year-old twins and given him 40 co-proxamol tablets before calling an ambulance.

Some other medicines e.g. the painkiller Co-proxamol can make you drowsy.

She said: "We have always accepted that some patients will need co-proxamol, and that is why supplies are being assured.

His left wrist was slashed, and he had allegedly ingested 29 co-proxamol painkillers.

However, after expert advice in January 2005 that co-proxamol should be withdrawn from the market, all licences had been cancelled by the end of 2007.

Co-proxamol's phased withdrawal period lasts until the end of 2007 to enable patients to move to suitable alternatives.

A postmortem examination showed that she died after ingesting temazepam, cyclizine and co-proxamol.

The following documents and forms are available for Co-proxamol (Cosalgesic) Tablets 32.5/325mg.

Care should be exercised in prescribing Co-proxamol (Cosalgesic) for patients with a psychological or personality disorder.

In the UK, dextropropoxyphene and paracetamol was licensed as the painkiller co-proxamol.

The co-proxamol preparations available in the UK contained a subtherapeutic dose of paracetamol, 325 mg per tablet.

Over 400 deaths a year result from overdosage of paracetamol and dextropropoxyphene / paracetamol combinations (co-proxamol).

During the House of Commons debates, it is quoted that originally some 1,700,000 patients in the UK were prescribed co-proxamol.

The doctors also claim that the level of the painkiller co-proxamol in Dr Kelly's blood was about one third of that required to produce death.

Combined analgesics e.g. co-proxamol, co-codamol These are combinations of drugs and they act both on the brain as well as at the site of pain.

In 2007, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency removed the licence for co-proxamol, also called distalgesic.

We recognise that there is a small group of patients who have found it very difficult to change from co-proxamol, when alternatives appear to be ineffective or unsuitable.

About your medicine The name of your medicine is Co-proxamol Tablets which is the generic (common) name.

At the end of January 2005, the MHRA announced that the painkiller co-proxamol was to be withdrawn from the market.

See Drug Safety Update, Nov 2007, for a reminder issued to prescribers about the withdrawal of co-proxamol.

"So to take what was said to be a blunt knife and what was alleged to be his wife's co-proxamol tablets to try to kill himself is extraordinary.

Any patients who are still taking co-proxamol should, where possible, be moved to a suitable alternative ahead of the cancellation of the licences at the end of the year.