[ExI] statins

[William Flynn Wallace]

But there's a real risk of drug companies and doctors pushing something as
"health in a pill" when the reality is that it doesn't provide health and
has negative side effects and various interactions with drugs.

-Dave

​You have described the entire otc pill industry, or at least part of it.
And it's unregulated.  One can get addicted to some of them - drugs for
constipation, for one.​  A few have been taken off the market:
 phenylpropanolamine, for one - the ingredient in the diet pill Dexatrim -
legal speed.

​bill w​


On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Lifestyle changes are difficult for many people, otherwise they wouldn't
>> risk an early death. But your response raises an interesting point: if
>> there were a pill available that could easily rectify negative consequences
>> of enjoyable but harmful behaviour, what would be wrong with that?
>>
>
> Nothing. The so-called morning-after abortion pill is pretty much in that
> category. But there's a real risk of drug companies and doctors pushing
> something as "health in a pill" when the reality is that it doesn't provide
> health and has negative side effects and various interactions with drugs.
>
> -Dave
>
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