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Why would anyone ever need to see an ad for prescription medicine? That's what doctors are for... Illegal to advertise any prescription meds where I come from

• happyopossum 4y ago
  > Could not wrap my head around it ... The First Amendment means that there has to be extraordinary proof of direct and immediate harm before the government will step in and stop speech. Note I'm referring to the the prescription drug ads (which actually are pity heavily regulated - they have to be very careful what they claim), not the quack cures. The quack stuff is typically illegal as it's being described in TFA, but it's international, and the FDA/FTC would have trouble enforcing an action against a Mexican hospital.
  • feet 4y ago
    The immediate harm is people getting on medications they don't need. That, in many cases, is actively harmful Just like untested treatments can be. Advertising medications and treatments should be entirely illegal. Full stop. Signed, Some pharmacologist