Money, Drugs, and the FDA

[BinAlladin]

FDA is olso taking over the Swedish medical system. I know that Swedish doctors only recomend medical approved by FDA. We have to take action now!!

[AuRatio]

What I am surprised about is that people are surprised by this.

[Charles459]

The FDA is a Hazzard to Americas Health

[elenacerasela]

??? president Bush keeps us safe all right, we will be soo poor that nobody would want anything from us, so we'll be safe...I don't get the post...

[firestartr319]

It would be better if they sold sugar pills for $100 each, but hey wont, because they want you to get more sick, and buy more drugs.

[elenacerasela]

Amen!!! Drugs have their use in certain circumstances. But educating and giving an opportunity to people to take a good care of themselves would be the solution to bankrupt the FDA charade...

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[GunsNRosesbitches]

Uh you think FDA wants people to get healthy? If people became healthy, they wouldn't need to take medicine, which in turns affects the profits of pharmaceutical companies. The big pharma companies only care about profits...if cancer found a cure, cancer industry would be out of business.

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[jordanvlnc]

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[Paul84674]

this video made me think more about doctors prescriptions for sure

[godzghoti]

Very good post about critical thinking. Definitely something important to keep in mind when being prescribed a medication. Especially important to look into that sort of thing if your giving a certain medication to a child. You mentioned at the beginning about a YouTube video on the treatments for autism. Do you think you could send me a link to that video?

[lordalfredhenry]

I looked up the NIMH clinical study. I've found two studies and also looked at the scales used like the "real life" scale. It appears Risperidone does reduce stereotypical behaviors/reaction to stimuli etc, it does not improve language, communication and caused a significant increase in weight. (6lbs over 8 weeks, which is significant)

[atwhite57]

Thats a good summary. Weight gain can be a major problem. In our son it improved sleep and overall mood as well.

[christschool]

One bit of warning about risperdal, which you may be aware of, it can cause permanent facial tics.

[atwhite57]

Yes, are you treating yourself or your child? Better examples with ADD, I believe. Also, more worrisome is the elderly population, are they better on meds, or just easier to care for?

[christschool]

I'm not trying to be insensitive when I say this but sometimes a disability's severity is determined by the parent's view of how it inconveniences their lives.

[christschool]

That's not exactly correct. There are many trial levels, it's not as simple as "ok, let's do a study, submit it to FDA with positive results, and then get approval". That's simply not true. Risperdal is something your son simply does not need from the video's I've seen. Politics and lobbying efforts of pharma certainly enter into FDA approval, but that tends to be more in Republican controlled FDA.

[atwhite57]

I'm oversimplifying. It takes lots of money and a number of trials to get a drug approved by the FDA. When you see my son on the videos he is on risperdal. He regresses when we taper it. Thanks for your input.

[christschool]

Risperdal is generally not for kids that have Asperger's and you can't move a Kanner to an Asperger simply with Risperdal. You seem fairly well educated so of course you know much more about the situation than I do, but that's my 2 cents.

[atwhite57]

Right, drug therapy is highly individualized. Everyone reacts differently, some get worse. Study - 80% of autistic individuals are on a psychotropic drug.

[musichalloffame]

very good. I am learning about drugs and stuff. I would like to see more of your videos because you offer so much information about things i dont know and i feel like i need to know. Can i cite you in one of my papers?

[atwhite57]

Yes, you can cite me. Thanks.

[lordalfredhenry]

Very good point on the FDA and it's lack of integrity with regards to bias and often, political business practices. Some like Kevin Trudeau will regularly tell horror stories about the FDA. I think it has a little bit of validity in terms of checking for lethality but not much. I'm currently in a drug study for a new drug. BTW, my sister is schizophrenic and on Risperdal. I'd like to know how you came to trust it for autism by answering your questions at the end.

[atwhite57]

We need an FDA, it just needs reform. In terms of my son, we agreed with risperdal because of 1) clinical trials in autism 2) recommendation of a specialist 3) trust in our doctor. We considered the risks carefully.

[lessorof2evils]

Interesting. This sounds like a broken process. How can we, as concerned citizens, fix this?

[atwhite57]

Great question. Thankfully, respected leaders in medicine and science are speaking out. We personally can vote, contact our legislators, and make it an issue. The Vioxx meltdown brought the issue under public scrutiny.

[PhilCommander2]

very very informative. well done.