 Here's another opportunity to contrast the actions of the FDA's actions
on prescription drugs versus herbal medicine. As you are probably well
aware, the FDA aggressively bans herbs that cause just a few deaths.
Ephedra's isolated problems were highly exaggerated and widely
publicized in order to solicit an outcry that would justify the FDA's
actions to ban the herb. And yet prescription drugs receive no such
scrutiny. This story described how a prescription drug named OxyContin
is being crushed and snorted by druggies to achieve a heroin-like high.
Furthermore, the company making OxyContin distributed promotional videos
to doctors that contained all sorts of unsubstantiated claims, such as
the claim that fewer than 1% of users become addicted to the drug (many
doctors would strongly argue with that). So how is the FDA acting to
protect the U.S. public against this heroin-like drug that's being
improperly marketed across the country? It isn't. The
investigation was conducted by the General Accounting Office
(GAO), which had to actually yank the FDA's chain to get the agency
to take a look at this drug. And now, six years after the drug was first
introduced, the FDA has taken no steps whatsoever against the makers of
OxyContin. This is stunning news: the GAO, which is perhaps one of
the last remaining honest departments in the federal government, is
doing the FDA's job! That's why I'm a strong advocate of FDA reform and
for creating an Internal Affairs department at the FDA so that somebody
is watching over this irresponsible agency that continues to drag its
feet when it comes to protecting the public from the dangers of
prescription drugs.
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