http://blog.aarp.org/2015/05/22/the-painkiller-sending-adults-55-to-the-er/
This blows my mind. I have taken this particular drug on and off since 1997. If you take it responsibly and a pharmacist is smart enough to let you know it interacts with the other medications you are currently on, you should not have any problems using it, no matter how old you are.