“Drug companies have much to answer for...”
That’s an interesting point to open with. I don’t feel drug companies owe anyone anything. They produce a product, they are one of the most overseen business in the country, and they have full disclosure on everything they make even to the point of having to display their products in information like MSDS’s from numerous groups beside the FDA, AMA, and political scrutiny.
We are a real smorgasboard of people in the country. I am not going to sit in judgement of a drug use that I do not expect to be right for everyone. And no one has ever made one that is not wrong for someone. But there is a real problem in the people that perscribe the drug too many times. NO has side effects that can effect different people different ways. About anything can happen with the educated guess of drug use. This is why doctors practice medicine.
But when they perscribe medicine designed to do something for other reasons because the meds can do something else, it seems like too often the original use of the medication is ignored for the practical needs of the patient. And too often it isn’t exactly safe. One of those is Ozempic, a diabetes drug being used for weight loss. Bad idea.
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Drug companies owe the public due care for the products they make and distribute, just as car and appliance makers and farms, food processors, and local restaurants and grocery stores do for their products. Despite the strong regulatory environment, there are sometimes errors, lapses, and even intentional wrong doing by the drug companies. The COVID vaccines for example were dodgy products rushed to use without full testing and proper regulatory scrutiny.