What would be the steps to take to get the drug off the market?
2006-06-14 12:05:48 · 12 answers · asked by proudmatriarch 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
lawsuit. Get a lawyer. Sometimes other people have experienced the same thing and they are also suing. these are called class action lawsuits. Your lawyer can see if there are any for that particular medication. the only thing big drug companies listen to are lawsuits that cost them a lot of money.
2006-06-14 12:08:38 · answer #1 · answered by noitall147 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You can't! Once it is approved, there have to be a lot of deaths & injuries that can be traced directly to the drug in question before it is considered to be unsafe. Even then, it is just given years of more monitoring. I think that if people just stopped taking all medications, they'd be better off. Unfortunately, once a person starts taking certain drugs, getting them out of your system can actually do them more harm than good. I think that if Doctors went back to being healers rather than perscribers of medications, that people would be getting better sooner. The pharmaceutical companies have made the doctors dependent on them & vice versa. The patients are being used for guinea pigs & drugs are being passed out much too freely as a quick fix that is backfiring on many people.
2006-06-14 19:26:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends. Are you opposed to it for moral reasons, or do you think it's like Phen/Fen and Vioxx, which caused heart problems? The former, you'd have to petition the FDA, but it's unlikely to work. The latter, you'd have to again go with the FDA, and maybe even start a letter writing campaign to the various medical associations (AMA, etc). And of course, the lawsuit route always works, as we can see with both the meds that I mentioned.
2006-06-14 19:10:06 · answer #3 · answered by Pammi1313 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume you're talking about pharmaceutical drugs...Well I think you'd have to back your statements with facts and studies that have been carried out. I think you'd have to advise the FDA (and there's another organization, something to health anyways) ...and I think they would verify the validity of your statement and then take steps to recall the drug and advise the population....
2006-06-14 19:10:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's about education. Being educated and aware of damaging your brain and body is a way to prevent the use of drugs. If nobody is interested on buying drugs, then nobody would be selling it. And for those who sell/use them there should be harder punishment and rehab.
2006-06-14 19:12:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oxycontin is the most addictive drug out there , and it
is destroying lives everywhere , yet the government does nothing
because of corporate America
2006-06-14 19:11:41 · answer #6 · answered by BONE° 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you talking about prescription drugs?
There are TONS of "bad" drugs in pharmacies...all "approved" by the corrupt FDA, all for the purpose of profit.
There's nothing you can do about it.
Just don't take the drugs.
2006-06-14 19:09:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have fought a war against illicit drugs for 40 years, it simply doesn't work.
2006-06-14 19:13:41 · answer #8 · answered by Black Sabbath 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DRUGS ARE BAD MMMMK... BUT YOU WILL NEVER GET RID OFF THEM... I SUPPORT MY POT HEAD FRIENDS OUT THERE BUT NOBODY WHO DOES DRUGS... AND WHO EVER SAYS WEED IS A DRUG THEY ARE EFFEN RETARDED!!!
LIVE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF WEED NOT ABOVE!!!
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PEOPLE AND ITS NOT SMART TO LEGALIZE CAUSE THEN THERE WOULD BE TAXES ON IT!!
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2006-06-14 19:09:50 · answer #9 · answered by CHEYNA M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't ban something, educate. It's he only thing that does work against drugabuse.
2006-06-14 19:09:46 · answer #10 · answered by Bloed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋