Are Weight Loss Pills Safe?

Are Weight Loss Pills Safe Despite the myriad menu of FDA-approved medications for weight loss? They’ve only been prescribed for about 1 in 50 obese patients. We worship medical magic bullets in this country. What gives One of the reasons anti-obesity drugs are so highly stigmatized is that historically, they’ve been anything but magical, and the bullets have been blanks or worse, Most weight loss, drugs to date that were initially approved as safe have since been pulled from the Market for unforeseen side effects that turned them into a public threat, As you may remember, it all started with DNP a pesticide with a promise to melt away fat safely, but instead melted away people’s eyesight. It was one of the things that led to the passage of the landmark Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938. Thanks to the internet, though, DNP has come back with predictably lethal results. Then came the amphetamines. Currently, more than half a million Americans may be addicted to amphetamines like crystal meth, but the original amphetamine epidemic was generated by drug companies and doctors By the 1960s drug companies were churning out about 80 000 kilos a year, which is nearly enough for a weekly dose For every man, woman and child in the United States, Billions of doses a year were prescribed for weight loss Weight loss clinics were raking in huge profits. A dispensing diet doctor could buy 100,000 amphetamine tablets for less than 100 and turn around and sell them to patients for 12,000. At a 1970 Senate Hearing Senator Thomas Dodd, father of Dodd-Frank, Senator Chris Dodd, suggested America’s. Speed. The freak problem was no accidental development. He said the pharmaceutical industry’s, multihundred million dollar advertising budgets. Frequently, the most costly ingredient in the price of a pill pill by pill, led coaxed and seduced post-World War II generations into the freaked out’drug culture.

I’ll leave drawing the Big Pharma parallels to the current opioid crisis as an exercise for the viewer. Aminorex was a widely prescribed appetite suppressant before it was pulled for causing lung damage. Eighteen million Americans were on fen-phen before it was pulled from the market for causing severe damage to heart valves. Meridia was pulled for heart attacks and strokes, Acomplia for psychiatric side effects, including suicide, and the list goes on. The fen-phen debacle resulted in some of the largest litigation payouts in the industry,’s history, but it’s all baked into the formula. If you read the journal PharmacoEconomics who isn’t sure a new weight loss, the drug may injure and kill? So many that expected litigation cost could exceed 80 million, But Big Pharma consultants estimate. If successful the drug could bring in over 100 million. So do the math