Doctors warned VA about Chantix in 2007 - VA did nothing »
Posted By bubba2 1 year, 5 months ago in NewsDoctors began raising red flags last year about whether the drug Chantix was causing severe psychotic episodes among veterans, prompting a quiet investigation last fall but no warning for the veterans prescribed the medication. Meanwhile, more veterans were prescribed the drug, including some suffering PTSD who were enrolled in a medical experiment
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BB641 year, 5 months ago
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wrong from wrong, the warnings were not issued to fire or police either. I don't see a problem with the timing. The FDA can either react so quickly over something and over blow a situation or under react, the product remains on the market for years. A problem was noted and a warming issued.
As for Vets, because of our problems from combat, many treatments and products have been fast tracked into general use. Look at the paramedics, emergency rooms, and air ambulances, all were developed from the military.
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tkyrchncs1 year, 5 months ago
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The rate of psychosis for this drug is high among the "normal" population, and it should not be prescribed for anyone with even borderline depression. The veterans are a special population with disproportionate number of depression/ptsd sufferers, so extreme caution should be the order of the day in their cases.
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willottica1 year, 5 months ago
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"When questioned, the VA immediately wants to defend 'the process,'" said Rep. Bob Filner, California Democrat. "When is the VA going to understand that it is not about the process, but about the veteran? Veterans don't want to hear the VA defend its process. It's time for the VA to defend our veterans, our heroes."
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BB641 year, 5 months ago
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Another DNC ploy to distract. A VA scandal and those terrible Republicans screwing the vets again. Give me a break. The product has problems that didn't show up during the trials. Perhaps they should have tried this on people with stress prone jobs, military, fire fighters, police, air traffic controllers and the like, in a controlled test, but they didn't. The product is being removed from the VA and might be restricted from the general public. This isn't that huge a deal, there are drug failures all of the time. Remember the first attempts at an Aids vaccine? The first 50 were military.
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Amazing11 year, 5 months ago
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From the article: "When is the VA going to understand that it is not about the process, but about the veteran? Veterans don´t want to hear the VA defend its process. It´s time for the VA to defend our veterans, our heroes."
And when are drug companies going to understand that its mandate is to help cure people, not just sell drugs? And when is the FDA going to understand that it should be a watchdog protecting the public and not the drug companies?
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miller2401 year, 1 month ago
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In a medical experiment veterans were suffering from PTSD. Doctors started raising red flags about the drug Chantix causing severe psychotic episodes in veterans with help of air ambulance service.
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