Posted by Lou Pilder on September 9, 2015, at 4:29:27
In reply to Lou's reply-FDA rules, posted by Lou Pilder on September 8, 2015, at 6:20:17
> > > Please do not accuse me of doing anything illegal without citing points of law or FDA regulations.
> > >
> > > This is supposed to be a forum of support. Either stop accusing me without evidence, or endeavor to enlighten me. You seem incapable of doing either.
> > >
> > > In what ways do I "promote" terazosin?
> > >
> > > You seem unable to provide evidence for your statements against me. I therefore ask you to please do so in the future, or, alternatively, not accuse me of anything at all.
> > >
> > >
> > > - Scott
> >
> > Scott,
> > Not complying with the FDA rules for advocating a drug is not a crime. You can find these rules in a search such as:
> > [what are the FDA rules for advocating a drug?]
> > Lou
>
> Friends,
> When a drug is promoted on social media it has rules to follow by the FDA. These rules are to protect readers from being misled in thinking that there is no risks involved in taking the promoted drug so that there is to accompany the promotion of the drug with particular statements. One such is to warn readers of the potential dangers of the drug in question as Scott says that the drug {works well}, which is a promotional statement for that drug. Hers what the FDA means by the following example
> Lou
> http://www.rxlist.com/hytrin-drug.htmScott,
You wrote,[...this is supposed to be a forum for support...].
I am trying to save lives here, and I think that by me doing what I can under the prohibitions posted to me here by Mr. Hsuing, that what I post here is supportive here in a mental-health forum chaired by a psychiatrist whose goals are different from mine here, but never the less, I think that my goals to save lives here overrides Mr. Hsiung's goal of doing what in his thinking will be good for his community as a whole. The goal of doing what will be good for the community as a whole is used to justify genocide and slavery and discrimination and segregation and all other crimes against humanity. That turns my stomach here when I read it.
And for you to be allowed to promote drugs here without posting a balanced message as to the harmful effects that the drug that you are promoting could befall a user, is not supportive in my thinking and the FDA has rules that I think are to be complied with here with just cause to save lives. For when you make claims of efficacy of a drug and fail to communicate any risks associated with its use and omit material facts about the drug, readers could be misled to think that the drug is safer than it really is and also could think that there are no adverse effects at all from the drug which could lead to the user's death.
Now you could continue your advocating of drugs here and omit the dangers of the drug that you are promoting and receive impunity from Mr. Hsiung to continue to do so. That could be seen as a partnership between you and Mr. Hsiung as to what he considers to be supportive. I do not think that you are not in compliance with the FDA rules, for you are being allowed by a psychiatrist to post over and over messages that promote drugs that can cause death and induce suicidal thoughts in the user to not only kill themselves, but to kill others also. I do not consider that to be supportive, for lives could be saved if readers knew the whole truth about the drugs that you are promoting here which you are allowed to omit. It is not the drug company that is sponsoring you, but the sponsorship is this forum itself by the nature that support takes precedence according to Mr. Hsiung. So whatever is allowed here could be thought by even the FDA to be considered by Mr. Hsiung to be supportive. But by you being allowed to leave out material facts and the adverse consequences from the drugs that you promote here, innocent people could die for they could think that you and Mr. Hsiung are being supportive. I say not.
Lou
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