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Tell Congress to Ban TV Drug Ads
Target: U.S. CongressSponsored by: Consumers Union
A bill was just introduced in the House banning advertising of new drugs and devices for the first three years on the market. It also requires TV drug and device ads include a toll-free number, so we can easily report serious side effects to the FDA.
This bill will really improve the safety of prescription drugs. The first few years a drug is on the market is when harmful side effects are likely to emerge. Banning ad campaigns will keep a new drug from being overused until its risks are better known.
And telling us how to report serious side effects in TV ads will get important safety information to the FDA more quickly.
Tell your member of Congress to support this important bill now. The momentum is growing to do something about TV drug and device ads thanks to you!
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# 6,850:
9:52 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Bridgette Garcia, California
# 6,849:
9:48 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Name not displayed, Missouri
We've had quite a few drugs recalled when they have already caused harm....I expect the U.S. to have the highest integrity in this area....it is the reason we don't get drugs from outside our country....Please keep us safe.....Things seem to be slipping with overseeing...such as the toy problem from China....I'm 60 and I never remember being afraid of what I buy in the U.S. Please bring my faith back...
We've had quite a few drugs recalled when they have already caused harm....I expect the U.S. to have the highest integrity in this area....it is the reason we don't get drugs from outside our country....Please keep us safe.....Things seem to be slipping with overseeing...such as the toy problem from China....I'm 60 and I never remember being afraid of what I buy in the U.S. Please bring my faith back...
# 6,848:
9:35 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Edward Fournier, Washington
As a professional health care provider, I am aware of the many pifalls associated with all drugs. I am also aware of the human tendacy to self-prescribe! Only a learned, trained, and professional health care provider is equipped to evaluate the appropriateness and efficacy of medications.
As a professional health care provider, I am aware of the many pifalls associated with all drugs. I am also aware of the human tendacy to self-prescribe! Only a learned, trained, and professional health care provider is equipped to evaluate the appropriateness and efficacy of medications.
# 6,847:
9:33 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Lawrence Turner, Louisiana
# 6,846:
9:18 pm PDT, Aug 10,
John Hyatt, Texas
Drug makers should be owned by the people for the people and not the fat cat corporate groups and shareholders. It should be a service, not a money making milk cow for rich bastards.
Drug makers should be owned by the people for the people and not the fat cat corporate groups and shareholders. It should be a service, not a money making milk cow for rich bastards.
# 6,845:
9:00 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Name not displayed, Minnesota
# 6,844:
8:56 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Kristen Glatz, North Carolina
# 6,843:
8:16 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Jessica Ryder, Pennsylvania
# 6,842:
8:04 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Benjamin Allen, Maryland
# 6,841:
8:00 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Kelly Long, Illinois
# 6,840:
7:47 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Virginia Allen, Maryland
# 6,839:
7:33 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Name not displayed, California
# 6,838:
7:29 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Ivan Pena, Texas
We must be careful with the side effects of drugs and go through the proper testing to make sure our people aren't even more damaged from the very product that is intended to heal/cure!
We must be careful with the side effects of drugs and go through the proper testing to make sure our people aren't even more damaged from the very product that is intended to heal/cure!
# 6,837:
7:08 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Jeanne Tucker, Ohio
I am against drug advertising on tv because of the message it sends to children - just take a pill and you'll feel better. How can we raise drug-free children when we make them sound so attractive?
I am against drug advertising on tv because of the message it sends to children - just take a pill and you'll feel better. How can we raise drug-free children when we make them sound so attractive?
# 6,836:
7:04 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Carl Donovan, Montana
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6:59 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Spike Tyson, Michigan
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# 6,833:
6:57 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Becky Welch, North Carolina
I never approved of drug ads on television to begin with. It just didn't make any sense to me. Doctors should tell their patients about prescription drugs that will work for them and not the other way around!
I never approved of drug ads on television to begin with. It just didn't make any sense to me. Doctors should tell their patients about prescription drugs that will work for them and not the other way around!
# 6,832:
6:48 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Name not displayed, New York
I've been the victim of under-tested drugs that were pulled off the market after bad side effects were reported. Regardless of when a drug is produced and approved by the FDA, it still needs years of follow-up to discover what long-term use will do. America should have learned its lesson with the thalidomide debacle.
I've been the victim of under-tested drugs that were pulled off the market after bad side effects were reported. Regardless of when a drug is produced and approved by the FDA, it still needs years of follow-up to discover what long-term use will do. America should have learned its lesson with the thalidomide debacle.
# 6,831:
6:47 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Name not displayed, Kansas
The advertisements by "RICH" drug companies has gotten far out of hand. Their deep pockets are too hard to resist for the greedy. What this does is put the general public at risk.
The advertisements by "RICH" drug companies has gotten far out of hand. Their deep pockets are too hard to resist for the greedy. What this does is put the general public at risk.
# 6,830:
6:43 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Richard Piera, Florida
Stop the Prescription Drug ads because you are killing not just Americans but everyone else too!
Stop the Prescription Drug ads because you are killing not just Americans but everyone else too!
# 6,829:
6:19 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Allison Frymoyer, Pennsylvania
# 6,828:
6:17 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Martina De Tollenaere, New Jersey
From the first years I lived in America I was surprised to see that so many cabinets in bathrooms are filled up with medicines. This must be a side effect of the many TV ads. When I had my twins I was astound to hear a pediatrician advised me to give antibiotics to the children so they won't get anymore ear infections. I ran to the health shop to find a European pediatrician. Thank God lately doctors changed their opinions on this point, because they had to realize children became immune for their stuff and ended up in a hospital.
From the first years I lived in America I was surprised to see that so many cabinets in bathrooms are filled up with medicines. This must be a side effect of the many TV ads. When I had my twins I was astound to hear a pediatrician advised me to give antibiotics to the children so they won't get anymore ear infections. I ran to the health shop to find a European pediatrician. Thank God lately doctors changed their opinions on this point, because they had to realize children became immune for their stuff and ended up in a hospital.
# 6,827:
6:14 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Erin Wilkerson, Kansas
I think it is ridiculous that pharmacutical ads are allowed on television because DOCTORS prescribe medication, not regular people... these people are self-prescribing, which in any other sense, is illegal.
I think it is ridiculous that pharmacutical ads are allowed on television because DOCTORS prescribe medication, not regular people... these people are self-prescribing, which in any other sense, is illegal.
# 6,826:
5:55 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Esther Rector, Nevada
# 6,825:
5:47 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Andrea Zils, California
# 6,824:
5:26 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Jane Sparks, West Virginia
# 6,823:
4:55 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Karen Todd, Florida
# 6,822:
4:36 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Jennifer Hartman, California
# 6,821:
4:31 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Judith Patrick, Louisiana
# 6,820:
3:58 pm PDT, Aug 10,
K. Lake, Wisconsin
# 6,819:
3:53 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Melinda Miles, Tennessee
# 6,818:
3:38 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Doris Henderson, Maryland
# 6,817:
3:32 pm PDT, Aug 10,
SUZANNE LAFRANCE, Florida
# 6,816:
3:26 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Christa Geise, Hawaii
# 6,815:
3:26 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Christian Perez, Florida
# 6,814:
3:15 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Susan King, California
# 6,813:
3:11 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Thomas Moxley, New York
Low to the drug companies;your looking to make big money ?Stop wasting money on your attempts to lure juvenile guinne people(pigs) Instead find a way to commercialize Chineese medicne and while your at it stop killing your mothers,brothers and sisters .Ask a China men they've known the meridian gate ways for thousands of years. Oh thats right that will take real effort and dedication.
Low to the drug companies;your looking to make big money ?Stop wasting money on your attempts to lure juvenile guinne people(pigs) Instead find a way to commercialize Chineese medicne and while your at it stop killing your mothers,brothers and sisters .Ask a China men they've known the meridian gate ways for thousands of years. Oh thats right that will take real effort and dedication.
# 6,812:
3:06 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Leo Silverstone, New York
The caveats in the spoken word fly by quickly or unintelligibly. Forcing advertisments into print media will make it possible for the potential user of the drug to read the print, even if it will be small.
The caveats in the spoken word fly by quickly or unintelligibly. Forcing advertisments into print media will make it possible for the potential user of the drug to read the print, even if it will be small.
# 6,811:
3:05 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Kelly Livingston, Louisiana
# 6,810:
2:33 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Patricia Daub, Indiana
Enough is enough!
Enough is enough!
# 6,809:
2:28 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Daphne Hamilton, Texas
# 6,808:
2:24 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Name not displayed, Utah
I have been a victim of the Phen-Pen problems. It would have been better if the drugs had been tested to save all of us a lot of issues, health & leagal wise.
I have been a victim of the Phen-Pen problems. It would have been better if the drugs had been tested to save all of us a lot of issues, health & leagal wise.
# 6,807:
2:21 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Kathryn Profera, Arizona
# 6,806:
2:16 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Aaron Johnson, Arizona
# 6,805:
2:05 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Laura Vandegrift, Indiana
# 6,804:
1:58 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Sarah Herbison, Maryland
# 6,803:
1:51 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Jolie Truesdell, Missouri
# 6,802:
1:50 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Christy Levine, Utah
# 6,801:
1:49 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Jennifer Crown, Maryland
People taking medications obviously already have enough health issues and difficulties in their lives. The medication they take to feel better should benefit them, not present an even greater threat to their health.
People taking medications obviously already have enough health issues and difficulties in their lives. The medication they take to feel better should benefit them, not present an even greater threat to their health.