Darvon RIP

The bleak fall weather outside was made even bleaker when I read that Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, the last company to produce Darvon, stopped production last week of the fat pink painkillers.  Any substance abuser who attended high school in the late '70's and early '80's remembers these little gems hiding in Mom's medicine cabinet when no weed, acid or 'ludes were available at school.  Although no match for its successor Vicodin, two or three Darvs did the trick when mixed w/Southern Comfort while listening to Led Zeppelin II at full volume in your basement bedroom at 4:00pm before your parents got home from work.  They were also excellent for hangovers.