Posted on 08/17/2021 7:58:07 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
It is the job of our good friends at the US Food and Drug Administration to give the OK — or not — on what we put into our bodies. Unfortunately, their decision-making process has proven to be not as much of an exact science it should be.
In fact, the FDA has made some pretty huge blunders that have ended in irreparable damage and even death. Here are just a few disastrous FDA mistakes that unleashed harmful drugs into the market.
Quaaludes were a sedative and hypnotic used as a sleeping aid between 1962 and 1985. They were, in a word (and in every sense of that word), volatile. Many of the helpless insomniacs and anxiety sufferers who took the drug to get a little shuteye ended up becoming manic, seizing, convulsing, vomiting, and sometimes even dying.
Or, they ended up addicted. Quaaludes are now considered a Schedule 1 drug (like heroin and LSD), but even before being approved by the FDA, research pointed to possible issues of dependence and abuse. By the 1970s, Quaaludes had become a wildly popular street drug. In 1982 alone, there were 2,764 reported emergency room visits as a result of Quaalude use...
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there are many more.
the PAYOFFS continue.
the FDA would ignore dangers such as with the
DNAoperating system which transforms God-given DNA
to trans-HUMAN status (incidently void of human
rights said SCOTUS) owned by whichever BIGpharma
got to the previous HUMAN, first.
yes it would. -— not sarcasm. not Babylon bee.
They conveniently left off Thalidomide because they reapproved that in 2006, but say it should not be used by nursing women or those trying to conceive.
It never should have been pulled but people are hysterics.
Sister and I are DES babies
Now do FDA approval of Biogen’s aducanumab for Alzheimer’s.
And don’t even get me started on Tylenol. At least 450 deaths a year due to liver toxicity, and you can buy that stuff without a prescription.
And it’s never saved a single life.
Should probably ban that, too.
Cigarettes.
50 yrs ago i moved into a brand new apt...I was 25.
Within a month, I developed asthma b/o new paint, new carpet, etc
I struggled with asthma for six yrs when (YES) I started smoking. The asthma went away.
Then at age 57 I quit the smoking. Asthma returned with vengeance. Besides the rx medicine, I took Quercetin - like ten capsules at a time! Quercetin really worked on inflamation of lungs. ie if I wheezed, I took loads of Quercetin and wheezing stopped.
In about a yr, the asthma left! But I had Ulcerative Colitis which appeared after I quit smoking. The UC had been in remission for years. Found out later that cigarettes or nicotine was thought to keep UC in check. By then, it was too late. UC ruin colon and I had to have it removed.
True story.
Don’t even have thalidomide on the list... damm.
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As I recall the FDA never approved thalidomide...one time they got it right (thanks to one smart woman at the agency). The babies who were born seriously deformed after their mothers used thalidomide were in other countries. I remember one case where an American woman who had somehow gotten thalidomide (must have been from another country) then went to Sweden, I think it was, to have her baby aborted.
I took it also - and it worked like a charm. Killed my appetite and didn't want more than a bite at meals. Doctor stopped it when it came out that it damaged the heart. I've never had any signs of damage. I currently take Ozempic for Type 2 diabetes - it works quite well as an appetite suppressant also. I've dropped about 60 lbs taking Qzempic and Jardiance.
Celebrex is the alternative but that is a no no if you have an allergy to sulfa drugs. It is also associated with a higher risk of stroke and heart attack.
But they leave that one on the market and took away my Vioxx.
Yes, I am still bitter about it.
I went to elementary school with a half dozen kids that were missing something that were thalidomide kids. They were down in the special needs bungalow with a coupe of other kids that were learning disabled and the other kids with physical problems... All of em about a few months to a year older than me.
I have a feeling that the proximity to Tijuana or the prevalence of military families in my hometown may have accounted for that, but I was under the impression from my Mom that it was available in late ‘61 when I was making her sick...
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