Ears become more sensitive to hearing loss loudness due to certain medication

I thought I would do a new thread instead of adding this point to the how much power thread.
It is to add to the comment raised by Ron and one most of us assume is ok (I used to as well) where he says:

Ron Party said:

I don't think 120dB for peaks is too loud. And, I regularly use an SPL meter when listening to music and watching movies. Average level for me is in the 80s.
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An interesting article was done this month in HifiNews by a Dr specialising in hearing as a follow up to a multi-month article started back in 2007 and this time covered causes and some resolution to hearing loss.
One surprise for me was that certain over the counter medications will cause our sensitivity to loudness to be lowered, meaning loudness that was ok if limited would cause actual damage.
This stems from the ototoxic medications-certain over the counter NSAID (aspirin-ibuprofen-etc), and certain antibiotics.
In past it was known these can cause damage due to ototoxicity, but the Dr states there is research to show these also lower our threshold at which loudness also starts to damage hearing.

So for us all it is worth remembering peak loudness that we thought was ok can still induce hearing loss if on various medication, some of which are common over the counter types as well.

Cheers
Orb

Whart,
no specific names were given just type-category.
But tbh I have not done a recent search as I was happy just to keep an eye out on the broader category as mentioned in 1st post.
If I get time I will try to look back at the article.
Cheers
Orb