Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022)
by freedomben on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:37PM
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GP didn't say your blood pressure meds or pseudoephedrine don't work, they said "most drugs don't work." I would have preferred some specifics, but we didn't get them so you shouldn't argue as though they were given.
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Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022)
by scarface_74 on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:38PM
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Do you think that 80% of prescribed drugs don’t work? Even 50%? I’m limiting it to prescribed drugs because those are the ones that a pharmacists would be most concerned about.
And a “pharmacist” isn’t exactly the best trained person when it comes to knowing how to do a drug research or to know its efficacy for patients compared to even a GP who is monitoring patients and keeping records of blood work and other stats
Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022)
by derefr on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:18PM
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They didn’t say prescription drugs. OTC drugs are also drugs. (In fact, they’re the drugs the article is about!) And the majority of drugs are OTC drugs. I would fully believe that the majority of OTC drugs do basically nothing.
(Consider: how many problems are there with your body that you’re actually likely to be able to solve with a drug that can be taken safely and correctly at basically any dose, basically any schedule, quitting whenever you like, and without checking for cross-drug interactions? Because those are the requirements for a drug to be OTC. There exist far more OTC drugs than there should, given the number of OTC-able problems, is what I’m saying.)