I for one am glad that pharma companies aren't allowed to peddle prescription meds that don't actually work. If there's some other use case for that drug (your

I for one am glad that pharma companies aren't allowed to peddle prescription meds that don't actually work. If there's some other use case for that drug (your "off label" application) then it will pass through the approval process with efficacy proven for that. I think it's more of a dilemma that off label scrips aren't used more often. Since there's zero monetary incentive to prove efficacy for a second application and doctors generally prefer officially sanctioned uses, lots of patients miss out on helpful treatment.