Posted on 01/15/2016 6:36:59 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
One person is brain dead and five others are seriously ill after taking part in a drug trial for an unnamed pharmaceutical firm at a clinic in north-west France.
The French health ministry said the six patients had been in good health until taking the oral medication. It did not say what the new medicine was intended to be used for, but a source close to the case told AFP that the drug was a painkiller containing cannabinoids, an active ingredient found in cannabis plants.
The health minister, Marisol Touraine, said on Friday the six had been taking part in a “trial of an oral medication being developed by a European laboratory†in Rennes, Brittany. The patients were admitted to hospital at the beginning of this week.
The ministry said the test was carried out by a private establishment “specialised in carrying out clinical trialsâ€. Local media reported that the trial took place at the Biotrial clinic.
The trial was intended to test for side-effects of the new drug. All trials on the drug at the clinic have been suspended and the French state prosecutor has opened an inquiry.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I’m just spitballing here but did they check to see if any of them took the whole course of ‘medicine’ in one dose?
It probably happens here too. Only Big Pharma manages to keep it out of the press.
Will we hear any more about this?
:: The trial was intended to test for side-effects of the new drug ::
Well, I guess they have their side-effects data...
I honestly don’t know. I’m an old fart and I often post responses about what FIRST comes to my mind. With the cannabis connection my inclination was to envision a test subject wolfing down the whole course in one sitting once they found out what it did.....:0)
The trial was intended to test for side-effects of the new drug.
Side effect: death
My thoughts, too. But you would think that the company would screen out drug abusers.
Horrible. This was Phase 1 testing. That is only done on healthy subjects, not the ‘Intent to Treat’ population.
That maybe on top of crushing a time-release formulation. Abusable medications should be tested in a hospital first to prevent this kind of thing, or if it is desired to be outpatient, screen the patients for past drug habits.
Worlds first Marijuana overdose.
It takes a government scientist to mix up a deadly potion from a harmless weed nature provided.
What a Country.
Just smoke the dang stuff!
In a million years you couldn’t smoke enough to kill you.
Hey mon, what a buzz. Let’s bust my brain with it. Oops, hello eternity, imagine meeting you so soon.
There should be better ethical safeguards. If something could be abusable, the test patients should know about that up front.
The officials left out the fact that the dead participant was discovered covered in over 200 half eaten or empty Twinkie wrappers.
Yeah! It was a munchie overdose instead of that wonderful drug!
With El Chapo guzman drugpin captured and in the news, memories of the French Connection, interesting where the headline leads...
Figured, this was probably a wild "trial"... where the defendant or the prosecuting attorney went postal.
That does tend to be the case. Smoke delivers a small enough amount per unit time, that lost interest will terminate the consumption before it becomes acutely hazardous.
With modern vaping, the same thing should be true, without the smoke pollutants problem.
It might not have been the MJ component that did it, however. They said it contained MJ, not that it was entirely MJ.
Did they bong it but forget the ice?
Smoking pot is not good for your lungs.
There is a lot of tar and particulate matter in that smoke.
Thus, Dr. T-Bone Texan strongly recommends vaping as a healthier alternative.
But yeah: World’s first documented pot overdose.
I think that's what we would call, a failure.
Well it certainly did kill the pain.
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