Prescription drug commercials should be banned.

[PALADIN85020]

I am sick of the incessant prescription drug commercials on TV. Listen carefully when they say "Do not take Progestanolopol if you are allergic to Progestanolopol."

How in hell do you know if you are allergic to their magic pills unless you take them? Catch 22. Quite frankly, after listening to all the possible side effects (including death), and in spite of the clips of all the happy people frolicking in the sunshine, there's no way I'd take any of them.

I think ads promoting prescription drugs to the general public should be banned - it would be better to send flyers about their stuff to medical doctors who can prescribe them with some knowledge of their efficacy on individual patients and the risk/reward decisions considering all the dangerous side effects.

It's not right to pitch to the general public and try to con them into getting their doctors to prescribe when the public does not have the necessary knowledge to do that.

Just a pet peeve. I now return you to your other interests.

John

 

[Truckman]

Just another reason to be glad I turned off the TV - permanently......Ben

 

[Rustyt1953]

I pay no attention to drug commercials. I take 11 prescriptions daily that my PCP and Cardiologist deemed the best for me. They work.

The only severe allergic responses I had in the past were to Wellbutrin and Pradaxa. I didn't know I was allergic until I started taking them.

 

[quikdraw67]

The cost of those commercials have to be contributing to the high cost of some of these new drugs. Both the production of the actual commercial and the TV air time.


And, if you noticed, they are as woke and PC as can be.

 

[NYlakesider]

I'm quite friendly with a doctor at the gun club, he is a Ob/Gyn so he is not my doctor.

Want to get him riled up talk about those TV adds and also WebMD!

 

[SMSgt]

I'm quite friendly with a doctor at the gun club, he is a Ob/Gyn so he is not my doctor.

Want to get him riled up talk about those TV adds and also WebMD!

In these days and times, with a little knife work he could be.

 

[Kenna]

I could do without any commercials, let me watch what I want!!

 

[Truckman]

I could do without any commercials, let me watch what I want!!

That's why I have YouTube and a DVD player...No commercials on either one......Ben

 

[S42N8]

FWIW:

Why would adults take the word of big pharma's ad sales critters when their medical teams can far better advise them as to their actual medical issues and treatment? Because we're gullible! We'd rather believe in the good life promised in commercials cynically produced to exploit our desires, our fears, and our needs. And it works.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on Earth… well, family, friends, and pets. They are treasures, if passing.

My rant herewith ends

 

[ameridaddy]

15 seconds to plug the drug, then 90 seconds to list all the damned side effects and contraindications.
Do the advertisers think I'm gonna call my doc in the morning and demand he prescribe 4 or 5 new drugs for me, just 'cause I saw the ad and want to try them?
Paladin, I hate those ads and I'd give your post 10 likes if I could!

 

[billwill]

Some of the medical conditions that they are suppose to cure, I have never ever head of.

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

Some of the medical conditions that they are suppose to cure, I have never ever head of.

When they read off the side effects, they are often worse than the disease they are supposed to treat!

"Side effects may include diarrhea, constipation, runny nose, growth of extra limbs, death, life, coma, old age, youth regression, loss of intellengence, gain of intellegence, turn you into Morbo,...." I think I've made a point.

BTW I have heard one commercial that DOES say side effects can include diarrhea or constipation...how in the blazes can you have diarrhea and constipation at the same time?

(Giant facepalm)

 

[Puller]

I would support a ban on adds for alcohol, erectile disfunction, and feminine products too.

Oh, and all political candidate adds on TV.

 

[steelslaver]

Oh, and all political candidate adds on TV.

I will 2nd that.

The drug companies are honest enough to list the possible harmful side effects and the political candidates never do that

 

[GypsmJim]

Since they stopped showing the commercial with the couple in separate bathtubs, I'm happy.

I mean, if the pills don't let us bathe together in the same bathtub, what's the sense.

 

[Chuck24]

Don't take it if you're allergic to it???

 

[boykinlp]

People see or hear what they want to see or hear. If you have the ailment that the commercial is pitching their drug for, ALL you hear is that it is a drug that will make you better. You don't hear or see the possible terrible side effects. Then, first thing the next morning, they are calling their doctor and telling them that they want to be on it, side effects be darned.

I bet doctors hear about new drugs from their patients long before the medical journals, etc. Unfortunately, if you have been suffering long enough, you will try anything. Big Pharma knows this. It is very sad.
Larry

 

[JcMack]

They would serve the public better if they were hawkin ballistic vests on TV.

 

[raljr1]

I hate the ambulance chasing lawyer ads. I have tremendous respect for the legal profession, but If I hear Morgan & Morgan for the 15 thousandth time....

 

[Rustyt1953]