Bex, Vincents, APC and Veganin contained the ... Some housewives took as many as three doses a day of the powder that could be dissolved in water or a cup of tea to help them get through the ...

The history of addictive painkillers Bex and Vincent’s reveals the ruthlessness of Big ... as well as through other magazines and interviews with APC survivors and their families. An ad for the ...

Aggressive marketing from drug companies meant it was even common to pop a Bex or Vincent’s powder in children’s lunch boxes “just in case”. It wasn’t until the 1970s that doctors and ...

Kidney Health Australia clinical director Professor Karen Dwyer said: “Phenacetin was part of Bex powder and there was an ad at one point that was ‘take a Bex and go lie down’ and it was an ...

Aggressive marketing from drug companies meant it was even common to pop a Bex or Vincent’s powder in children’s lunch boxes “just in case”. It wasn’t until the 1970s that doctors and ...