FDA Told U.S. Drug System Is Broken
“The federal system for approving and regulating drugs is in serious disrepair, and a host of dramatic changes are needed to fix the problem, a blue-ribbon panel of government advisers concluded yesterday in a long-awaited report.”
Who has the will to reform something so big, so wealthy, so powerful, and so deadly?
Politicians? Lobbyists? Busy stay at home Mothers?
“Much of the institute’s report focused on a central gap in drug regulation: While the FDA demands strict data on efficacy and safety from clinical trials before approving a new drug, less attention is paid after the drug reaches the market.
A safety problem that occurs once in every thousand patients, for example, would be unlikely to show up in clinical studies of a few hundred people, but it could result in thousands of serious side effects once the drug is approved and being taken by millions. The current system for monitoring adverse effects is nowhere near as systematic as the evidence collected before approval, the report said.
Besides, said R. Alta Charo, a panel member and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, patients who participate in drug trials are carefully selected, and hardly typical of patients in the real world who usually suffer from more complex problems.
“A drug tested in a few hundred or thousand people is very different when used by millions, especially over long periods of time and in conjunction with other supplements,” she said.”
The pattern of the drug companies has been to wait until Congress acts, or the risk/benefit ratio is too far on one side, and then they will pull a drug off the market, while introducing the “bigger, better, faster” drug right as the old drug has worn out its welcome with the public.
Remember it was Eli Lilly who gave us LSD, which only was pulled from the market after an act of congress and still continues to wreak havoc on the lives of those addicted to it. It is a little known fact that Prozac is a chemical cousin to LSD, and also produced by Lilly, it has ruined the lives of many people. The most tragic of which are those who are now dead, disabled, in jail, or who have lost custody of children or had beloved spouses walk when homelife became too crazy.
I took Prozac for several months and experienced a whirlwind of toxic side effects.
Here is a final quote from the article in the Post
“The report represents a watershed moment after two years of controversy over the safety of such widely used drugs as pain relievers and antidepressants.”
May the lies, conspiracies, and evil be exposed, and may the American people pull free from the web of enslavement that has wrapped its ugly, toxic tentacles around our bodies and minds.
I propose that we dump the FDA, legalize all drugs, make it so no one has to have a prescription for anything, stop all Government funding of health care, and let the American People sort it out for themselves. Let each consumer pay each type of doctor out of pocket for the services they are interested in using. Only then will the playing field be leveled to a place where all forms of healing are living by Free Market Principles.
Drugs have saved my life numerous times. I keep an Epi pen with me at all times as I have deadly food and chemical allergies. Several times when I have gone into anaphylactic shock, it was the drug that saved my life.
I am NOT Anti-Drug. In an emergency situation, I can see and I have experienced the miracles that have kept me alive when my airway shut down. That being said, I would like all of the fraud to be exposed and the drug companies to have to compete in the marketplace of ideas as one of many healing modalities available in our society to help nurture and heal a sickly person.
Jenny Hatch