Thoughts on drug advertising

Can I start selling prescription placebo for the treatment of mild to moderate hypochondria? Side effects similar to those of a sugar pill.

Comments

[Brendan Loy]

Heh.

[Angrier and Angrier]

I like the ones that treat sinus headache with the potential side effects including blindness, anal bleeding and death.

[Brendan Loy]

I, too, love it when "death" is listed as a side effect. Heh.

Dr. Kevorkian should come out with a Death Pill that has, as a possible side effect, life.

[Mike]

I often look at the list of possible side effects; say, nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, dizziness, fainting, nosebleeds, insomnia, constipation, and some sexual side effects may occur, and think "Who has allergies so severe that they'd prefer that list of side effects to the allergies?"

[Alasdair]

Mike - aren't most of those side-effects caused just as much by the water with which one takes the medication, anyway ?

[Braylon]

I know that dcl is being funny and I agree that those commercials are absolutely insane. However, the list of side-effects can range from everyone in the study group getting them to less than .005% getting them. If someone reports a "side-effect" then FDA regulations require it be listed (regardless if they can prove the drug caused the side-effect or not).

Take out the bottle of Tylenol or Advil and take a look at the side-effects those pills have!!! Death is a possible side-effect for acetominiphin.

[Mad Max, Esquire]

I have heard that acetaminophen is one of the leading causes of liver failure in the US because the drug companies stick it in EVERYTHING and people over-dose without realizing how much they are taking.

[dcl]

Acetominiphin makes me really bloody jittery, I can't take it.

[Angrier and Angrier]

All I can say is if our TV signals ever travel through space and time to an alien civilization they are going to think we are a bunch of horny 50-something men who can't get it up.