[JimRed]

Five years? Wait now, if they’ve tried it and it works, WHY FIVE YEARS???

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Five years? Wait now, if they’ve tried it and it works, WHY FIVE YEARS???

I have a three letter acronym for you — F.D.A

[pieceofthepuzzle]

It takes time to develop drugs in a safe manner. I'm not saying that things couldn't be more efficient, but it does take time.

1) They will have to work out a way to produce this ‘drug’ in significant quantities.
2) They will likely have to test the ‘manufactured’ drug in preclinical (animal and laboratory) testing.
3) Phase I clinical testing will occur (focused on testing the safety of this drug in humans).
4) Phase II and III clinical trials will have to be done to show in humans that the drug is effective, and remains safe.
5) Approval and marketing will then have to occur.

It takes time to plan an perform a clinical trial. Sometimes just one trial can take years to complete - depending on its design and the number of patients required.

[DannyTN]

"Wait now, if they’ve tried it and it works, WHY FIVE YEARS???"

They need to prove that it works and that's it's safe to the FDA. They can't just claim it works and get approval.

[petro45acp]

EFFING DRUG A$$HATS

foolishly debilitating administrators
all failing druggists
forever against drug-cures
launch all zig

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