[bdeaner]

I fully understand what off-label marketing means.

A hammer is used for nailing things together. I can use a hammer to put you to sleep if I wack you in the head with it. Doesn't make it a good idea. The FDA is there to protect idiots from wacking people with hammers, figuratively speaking -- and even in that case, the FDA is only minimally protective, because the hammer consultants are all being paid by the company that makes the hammers.

Any physician who precribes an anti-psychotic for nausea needs a swift kick in the pants.

[Publius Valerius]

The FDA is there to protect idiots from wacking people with hammers, figuratively speaking

That's absurd. There are tons of off-label benefits for drugs, and those types of treatments and not only improve the quality of life for some people but save lives. Heck, one of the off-label uses of viagra is to help premature babies breathe.

Drugs should help patients. If they can, great. I'm not interested in some bloated government agency telling me I can't take a drug that hundreds of thousands of other people take without incident AND will improve my quality of life just because the FDA hasn't declared it "effective." That's bull.