EDIT... PROOF: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/0...
Are 'Legal Drugs' as Dangerous as Illegal?
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2012/06/14 20:00:00
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Just because a substance is legal, that doesn't mean it's safe. With new substances hitting the market on a regular basis, it's impossible for authorities and experts to keep track of them, meaning there's very little reliable information available. A while back, a handful of teens were hospitalized after taking synthetic marijuana -- cause enough for concern. But this weekend a 20-year-old man died after taking a substance called Benzo Fury at a Scotland music festival.
David Liddell, director of Scottish Drugs Forum, said in a statement, "Benzo Fury is a so-called legal high -- or New Psychoactive Drug -- which appears to have a similar effect to Ecstasy. It's one of the new legal highs developed to get around the banning of similar compounds ... As it's not been around for long there is little information on long-term effects and as with all these drugs, there's no knowing what's actually in them. The names are just to market them and may bear no relation to what's in them." Do you think these "legal drugs" are just as dangerous as the illegal ones?
David Liddell, director of Scottish Drugs Forum, said in a statement, "Benzo Fury is a so-called legal high -- or New Psychoactive Drug -- which appears to have a similar effect to Ecstasy. It's one of the new legal highs developed to get around the banning of similar compounds ... As it's not been around for long there is little information on long-term effects and as with all these drugs, there's no knowing what's actually in them. The names are just to market them and may bear no relation to what's in them." Do you think these "legal drugs" are just as dangerous as the illegal ones?
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+17Legal drugs kill more people than all of the illegal ones combined - apart from, of course, Cannabis that in and of itself has never killed anyone, and yet which is illegal... makes sense.
EDIT... PROOF: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/0...
If you did- you'd have a different attitude.
ANd if you DO have this bizarre anti- oversight attitude- and have a family member who DOES take medication- shame on you.
"Public Citizen, a national non-profit public interest organization, exposed that while conflicts of interest at the FDA's drug advisory committees are common and often have serious dollars at stake, advisory committee members and voting consultants rarely step down because of them." http://www.naturalnews.com/02...
"Following the death of as many as 60,000 Americans from COX-2 inhibitors (source: British Medical Journal, author Dr. David Graham, FDA drug safety researcher), an FDA advisory panel has now voted to allow the drugs to return to the market with full FDA safety approval. The fact that a single COX-2 drug has reportedly killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War is apparently not sufficient for the FDA to characterize it as unsafe." http://www.naturalnews.com/00...
"Public Citizen, a national non-profit public interest organization, exposed that while conflicts of interest at the FDA's drug advisory committees are common and often have serious dollars at stake, advisory committee members and voting consultants rarely step down because of them." http://www.naturalnews.com/02...
"Following the death of as many as 60,000 Americans from COX-2 inhibitors (source: British Medical Journal, author Dr. David Graham, FDA drug safety researcher), an FDA advisory panel has now voted to allow the drugs to return to the market with full FDA safety approval. The fact that a single COX-2 drug has reportedly killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War is apparently not sufficient for the FDA to characterize it as unsafe." http://www.naturalnews.com/00...
You're funny.
Perhaps I should refresh your memory about my point.
"The FDA would be a good thing if it was there to protect the public. Sadly in practice it protects business at the expense of the public. Case in point: who tests drugs to make sure they're safe? Not the FDA, they rely on the drug dealers to do that, a clear CONFLICT OF INTEREST."
Which of course is part of the "systemic corruption and wrongdoing that permeates all levels of the FDA" exposed by CBS News.
So, got another pithy retort? Or would you rather move on?
Since you want to segue it into another boring RWNJ rant against government- there's nothing to say, is there?
It's almost impossible to sort out what the hell you tried to say.
What's happening to the world?!?!?!
WebMD talked about bath salts and other designer drugs with Zane Horowitz, MD, an emergency room physician and medical director of the Oregon Poison Center.
First of all, what are bath salts?
"The presumption is that most bath salts are MDPV, or methylenedioxypyrovalerone, although newer pyrovalerone derivatives are being made by illegal street chemists. Nobody really knows, because there is no way to test for these substances," Horowitz says.
http://www.webmd.com/mental-h...
http://www.stltoday.com/lifes...
"Vanilla Sky", and the others are the names of the bath salts. Bath salts, as in the stuff you put in you're bath tub.. it's not a designer drug. You can buy them at Wal-Mart, and Wal-Mart isn't big on designers.
Why are they called bath salts?
"It’s confusing. Is this what we put in our bathtubs, like Epsom salts? No. But by marketing them as bath salts and labeling them 'not for human consumption,' they have been able to avoid them being specifically enumerated as illegal," Horowitz says http://www.webmd.com/mental-h...
Why would someone pay $50 a container for strange bath salts? I'm definitely in the wrong kind of business. Damn.
In comparison, opiates, when taken as directed, have only minor side effects, such as dry mouth, itching, sweating, sometimes dizziness.
http://www.drugs.com/ibuprofe...
http://www.drugs.com/mtm/oxyc...
Looks like the OTC pain relievers should be the ones where a prescription is needed. Most people would probably be able to handle taking opiates OTC, although there are the people out there who would abuse it. (Making these substances prescription-only hasn't stopped or lowered the abuse, however).