Pharmaceuticals Test Drugs: What you Need to Know

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Dateline’s Chris Hansen did an outstanding investigation in to the FDA, pharmaceutical studies and drug tests on humans.  What he uncovered will make you shutter when you think of taking a prescription drug.  The drug companies who make these drugs, create and run their own studies to get FDA approval, and then more than 80% of them go to foreign countries to do drug trials — tests on human testing, yet less than 1% of them are reviewed by the FDA once they are complete.

Does that give you confidence in the FDA?  And the safety of our drugs?

Even worse, these companies test these drugs on the poorest of poor in India–paying them $150 per drug trial and the poorest of people sign-up to simply survive, and they sign-up for multiple drug trials at one time–which could be devastating not only for their health, but for us as well–as results will be skewed, if they are even accurate and truthful at all.

Since 2008, more than 1,500 people have died in India participating in drug trials.  Think about that next time you take a prescription drug.  Do you think this is fair and ethical?