tv drug ads make us neeedlessly over medicate some of this shit has side effects .... so who's watchin our back ? ============================ washington post april 26 2005 "Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising soared after the FDA allowed drug promotions on television for the first time in 1997" " Efforts to limit such advertising have run afoul of Supreme Court rulings protecting commercial speech" "The ads are regulated by the FDA's Division of Drug Marketing Advertising and Communications The office has three dozen employees and must review 30,000 to 40,000 ads a year Acting commissioner Lester M. Crawford said recently "our patience is sometimes worn thin by the big pharma's advertising claims"Posted by pinky at April 28, 2005 05:47 AM
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