This is more or less how I've felt. There are so many high-risk behaviors which are perfectly legal, and when our right to take risks in those ways is challenge

This is more or less how I've felt. There are so many high-risk behaviors which are perfectly legal, and when our right to take risks in those ways is challenged, there is generally backlash; but in the case of drugs we are legally prohibited from taking risks. I think the FDA's prohibitive authority does more to protect the interests of established pharmaceutical manufacturers, than the interests of consumers.