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My favorite example of this was when the feds essentially replaced pseudoephedrine (which works brilliantly, but now you're treated like a criminal if you need
by awalton 7y ago
My favorite example of this was when the feds essentially replaced pseudoephedrine (which works brilliantly, but now you're treated like a criminal if you need to buy it) with phenylephrine (which, quite frankly, doesn't do a damned thing: https://www.jwatch.org/na39054/2015/09/17/phenylephrine-no-more-effective-placebo-nasal-congestion https://www.jwatch.org/na39054/2015/09/17/phenylephrine-no-m... - it's worse than a placebo in that it has side-effects AND doesn't do anything for what it's supposed to treat!)
- ddenisen 7y agoAnecdotally, I find phenylephrine to be definitely effective as a topical decongestant (nasal spray); especially more so than its alternative (oxymetazoline), so it's not a placebo effect. But I agree that it doesn't do a thing as an oral drug.