Okay who is sick to death of those damn drug commercials?

[proud2BlibKansan]

Nancy Boyda is running for US Congress in Kansas. She has a great plan to improve your TV viewing experience!





Restrict Direct-to-Consumer Advertising

I began my pharmaceutical career in 1981 in research and development at Marion Laboratories. It was a well-run company, and my colleagues and I took our mission very seriously: We were saving lives.

But over the years, the pharmaceutical industry changed around us. Their focus shifted from patients to profits.

This change began, I believe, in 1985, when the FDA first permitted widespread advertising of prescription drugs. Up until that time, pharmaceuticals could only be marketed in professional journals and similarly targeted venues; afterwards, advertisements could appear in mass-market magazines, in newspapers, and even on television. In 1997 the FDA went even further and removed most of the remaining restrictions on prescription drug advertising.

In response to these rule changes, pharmaceutical companies' promotional expenses exploded. Today, the prescription drug industry spends more on advertising than on research and development.

I believe that patients were overmedicated before 1997, and due to these rules changes, they're now even more overmedicated -- and only the prescription drug industry benefits from this trend.

I'll fight for common-sense improvements to our pharmaceutical laws, including returning the restrictions on direct-to-consumer advertising to pre-1985 standards.

http://www.nancyforcongress.com/issues.php

[Richard Steele]

1. She could get my vote, just for this single idea.

Advertising Prescription-only meds to the public is
just a horrible idea; how can any good ever come of it?
It never should have been allowed to get the way it is!

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Me too

I have been complaining since this crap started. It is so irresponsible. I wonder how many people diagnosis themselves by watching commercials.

[TomInTib]

2. Head On.... nt

[evlbstrd]

3. I wish I could vote for her.

I could nitpick on a few things, but, overall, she's a great candidate.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Let's move to Topeka!

:)

[evlbstrd]

6. I don't thinks so.

They close it at 6. We'd keep people awake.

[ceile]

7. I totally agree.

Wish I could vote for her.

[dogday]

8. I only have two words--- Explosive Diarrhea

I get tired of hearing that one little reaction to the drugs....

[Make7]

9. There's a pill now that makes people want to watch those commercials....

... I saw it on TV.

:) Make7