Just as the concepts of Recovery, Citizen Scientists and pretty well everything else can be captured by pharmaceutical industry, so also feminism and claims of sexism are now being hijacked by industry as marketing tools. FDA are accused of being sexist in not licensing a ‘female Viagra’. This claim is being used to mobilize pressure on them to license a pharmaceutical … [Read more...] about Femininity and Drugs?
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“We ask you to put the public’s health ahead of industry interests”
From Johanna Ryan: Last week, RxISK joined with forty-one other organizations from across the U.S. and Canada to urge the FDA to withdraw its approval for a new drug. Zohydro ER is actually not so “new” – it’s pure hydrocodone, a synthetic opiate which has been widely prescribed for many years in the U.S. However, Zohydro will contain up to ten times the hydrocodone available … [Read more...] about “We ask you to put the public’s health ahead of industry interests”
Lupron: a Nightmare produced in Abbvie
Editorial Note: This post is by Lynne Millican, the founder of Lupron Victims Hub. Lupron is leuporelin - one of several Relins. Lynne's story which dates from the late 1980s is still being repeated today with drugs like Goserelin - Zoladex. This group of drugs can cause seriously bad outcomes for some women. But it can be hard to know at times whether the greater problems … [Read more...] about Lupron: a Nightmare produced in Abbvie
At First a Lifeline, Then a Noose
Editorial Note: The death of Philip Seymour Hoffman featured heavily in early news bulletins this week. It seems highly likely that Hoffman's death originated from a prescription drug problem. As it happens Johanna Ryan from RxISK's Community Board had been liaising with the parents of Steve Rummler and others concerned about the licensing of yet another opiate pain-killer - … [Read more...] about At First a Lifeline, Then a Noose
Accutane: 30 Years of Trading our Sex Lives for Clear Skin
Editorial: Bill G. Sex and skin There are an ever-increasing and disturbing number of young people claiming their sex lives have been permanently ruined from taking the acne drug, isotretinoin, commonly referred to by its former brand-name, Accutane. Often these affected young men and women, many in their teens and early 20s, cannot overcome their embarrassment to report … [Read more...] about Accutane: 30 Years of Trading our Sex Lives for Clear Skin
RxISK says Doxycycline causes Suicide
There have been several reports to RxISK of young men committing suicide on doxycycline. This led us to investigate further. The evidence seems clear - doxycycline can cause someone to commit suicide. We have no idea how often this happens but that it happens is certain. Given for a skin rash The first report came from a mother in Australia who reported the death of her … [Read more...] about RxISK says Doxycycline causes Suicide
The Shipwreck of the Singular
Crusoe’s first appearance was in The Creation of Psychopharmacology, where in recognition of the tensions inherent in medicine between the numerous who enter clinical trials and the single person being treated by a doctor, the book opened with a quote from George Oppen’s Of Being Numerous, in which he notes that: “Crusoe we say was rescued”. Since Oppen wrote these lines, … [Read more...] about The Shipwreck of the Singular