Drug Safety Regulation
Comments debate the safety, regulation, and access to various drugs including prescription medications, psychedelics, stimulants, and painkillers, focusing on risks of self-medication, long-term effects, and the need for clinical trials versus unrestricted use.
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GP is talking about all drugs, not just prescription drugs.
Sure, things that are cause for large scale disease/biohazard might be a good exceptions. The medicines patients seem to be seeking most (psychedelics, relaxants, stimulants, painkillers, erection-assistants) don't seem to fall into this category.
Wouldn't this story be a reason to actively research these drugs?
Legal drugs are not de facto safe.
They didn't suggest drugs aren't bad, did they? Point out where they said so?
In the case of drugs, it's because most chemical compounds have more than one effect on the body. While something might alleviate one problem it can create an entirely different problem. Without a thorough understanding of what it's going to do to someone it would be deeply unethical for a chemist or a doctor to give someone a drug. This is not limited to illegal or untested drugs - it's unethical for a doctor to prescribe entirely legal drugs without knowing what they're giv
You've been unfairly downvoted. Your question is perfectly reasonable.This seems to be characteristic of HN in the last couple of years... very reminiscent of Reddit imo.Long-term effects are one of the main points of study in clinical trials so why would these drugs ben any different?
Not everyone would choose to take the drug in the first place.
Hardly, it's an unfair advantage. There's a reason it's a prescription drug.
the harm is not all drugs are safe - even if this one was (and we aren't 100% sure of that either), and pharma companies using social media and/or sympathy stories to pressure regulators into approving a drug that would not otherwise get approved is gross.