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IMO the only criteria should be safety. Medicine doesn't have to work for everyone to be useful for a lot of people.
by beenBoutIT 8y ago
IMO the only criteria should be safety. Medicine doesn't have to work for everyone to be useful for a lot of people.
- rincebrain 8y agoA great many drugs are grossly unsafe if you even minorly exceed the clinical dosage threshold, but are still regularly used by people because we haven't found better replacements. A much larger set of drugs fall into a gradient of "as far as we can tell you'll just excrete it if you take too much" to "it's probably not _good_ if you unnecessarily take it, but it won't really be detectable in 4 weeks" to "oh god why would you ever prescribe that". So if we were purely grading on safety, we'd be out quite a lot of pharmacology.