Fda Approved Drugs: Do Risks Outweigh Benefits?

FDA Approved Drugs: Do risks outweigh benefits? Among all of the ailments that are a part of everyday life there is a necessity for remedies from big too small. But in the end are the potential risks and hazards of these medicines worth the questionable outcome. This is the question you must ask yourself, for yourself and your family.
“A drug is removed from the market when its risks outweigh its benefits. A drug is usually taken off the market because of safety issues with the drug that cannot be corrected, such as when it is discovered that the drug can cause serious side effects that were not known at the time of approval. However, completely removing a unique product from the market could be very dangerous to people who depend on the drug. So, decisions to remove products from the market are made very carefully, especially if people would be in danger without the product.” I personally find the statement made above rather scary, that such leisure seems to be taken on behalf of the safety of the people prescribed to certain drugs. It would seem reasonable that an extreme amount of precautions and steps would be taken on behalf of a drug that could potentially enhance or create new problems among the consumer. We see it all the time in ads or on television the commercial for a drug that might be able to stop your headache but the list of after effects are extreme and vast. As well as drugs that were first prescribed 10 years ago with many people using it that now causes a wide variety of sickness not only for the host but in some cases the children of that person. In going over the review process it does appear that there is a rigorous process in which these drugs are tested and approved, yet one thing it cannot review is the effects of the drug after years of use. So no matter how many tests are done unless they do a study for a long period of time there are many unforeseen factors that play into the chemicals reacting with a body. In this paper I