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Keep in mind also that as a patient you're allowed to take basically any drug you want, companies just aren't allowed to sell those drugs to other people and cl
by Alex3917 11y ago
Keep in mind also that as a patient you're allowed to take basically any drug you want, companies just aren't allowed to sell those drugs to other people and claim they treat a specific disease without FDA approval. So this whole article is basically just shilling for even less stringent requirements to market a drug as being effective, even though that hurdle is already trivially easy to overcome in these cases.
- danieltillett 11y agoIt is rather hard to take a drug if the company won’t give it to you. Pharmaceutical companies are very reluctant to even give drugs to desperate patients because the FDA requires them to report all adverse side-effects even though they have no control over the conditions in which the drug is used. You can actually kill a totally fantastic drug by letting people use it outside of a controlled clinical trial.
- Alex3917 11y ago> It is rather hard to take a drug if the company won’t give it to you. Not really, you just have to buy it from a compounding pharmacy.
- danieltillett 11y agoI think you might have a misunderstanding of what a compounding pharmacy can do. They can't just whip up some chemical on demand. If a new drug is not for sale they can't compound it.
- refurb 11y agoDon't forget the safety aspect of it as well. Even if a company wasn't claiming anything about their drug, if they sell something unsafe, they will get punished.
- danieltillett 11y agoThis apply to all products, not just medicines. If you sell any product that you know (or should have known) is unsafe then the tort lawyers will be after you as quick as a flash. There really is no need for additional product liability regulations for pharmaceuticals.