Posted by Chris O on February 28, 2014, at 12:18:28
http://www.telegram.com/article/20140221/NEWS/302219769/1052/rss01&source=rss
This article floored me. It basically says that entire generic drug market has been untested until the last year. It's one thing to read this sort of thing on websites like mercola.com, but it's another when the FDA openly admits "before this year, we didn't have the money for that [testing generics]." So, let me get this straight: Millions of us have been using generic drugs for the past 15 years, and the FDA has not even tested these drugs? To boot, many of the drugs are made in China and India, whose "quality control" standards certainly redefine the meaning of that phrase. The information regarding "widespread impurities" in the Lipitor made "outside the US," the heart failure drug made in India that didn't work, and the Wellbutrin XL generic that "didn't work as well as the original," are incredibly worrying. It certainly makes me ponder the period of my life from 2008-2012, when I took successive SSRI and SNRI drugs, all in high doses, none of which seemed to have any effect on me, including side effects. This compares to the period 1998-2000, when I took non-generic Prozac, Celexa, and Wellbutrin, all of which worked (though not as well as I would have liked) and had easily determinable side effects. I know there a lot of babblers who are getting effective relief with their meds. But even if you are, isn't it incredibly disturbing to think that many of the drugs we take are not tested in any way, that pure profit (not medical altruism) is the primary motivation for their production, and that our government essentially admits that they have done little or nothing about it. I could go on, but what do others think about this? And were people here aware that most generics were not tested?
Chris
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