unodelacosa
Bluelighter
It's rarely "simple" and even more rarely "0 risk". Also, I imagine malpractice suits don't make life easier.To make there life easier and because there is 0 risk. That one is simple.
In part, it's a matter of semantics. I think what you both mean to say is: "unethical to prescribe" not "unethical to use". Otherwise it's all context sensitive. If a medicine has been removed from approval status, than it is no longer a medicine to be prescribed and the question is superfluous.Are you saying there are no prescription drugs that are generally unethical for human use? Darvocet/APAP fits the bill but that is a lame example. Do we get to count things that use to be prescribed until we learned better? As that is sure to happen again and citing previous horrors would be easier admittedly
Oh, I know all about the Sackler family, the pill farms in Florida, and the unethical moves Big Pharma has pulled in the past and still continues to pull today. As I stated before, I'm not cheerleading for Big Pharma over here, but we don't just throw the good out with the bad. The system can be changed from within.That aside I would just say look at the 'weaponization of antipyschotics' thread and the Sackler family thread for more.
No, they don't. "Infallibility"? What're they the Pope now? Hospitals are very fallible, and they make mistakes and settle lawsuits all the time. There are medical review boards from governing bodies to help keep things in check. Not a perfect system, but a functional one nonetheless.Hospitals do work with a certain amount of infallibility -- especially if there is only one in the area.
I get the feeling you're speculating here, and in my opinion, quite often doctors and nurses take their professions, their reputations, and their oaths very seriously. Hospitals do see some oversight, too, you know… it's not just a pure matter of quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Latin for: "Who watches the watchers?")Kind of a position they are 'policing themselves/eachother' and we see how well that works in EVERY INSTITUTION.
The side effects are mostly established during phases 2 and 3 of clinical trials, so whether you report side effects or not probably makes little to no difference. They already know about the side effects before it comes to market. Gotta take the bad with the good sometimes when the greater good is being served for that individual.I would agree that side effects are vastly underreported as well --- If I like the med I may not mention a side effect, I.E Itchiness with morphine (oh no) - I am sure there are many more reasons. Including what you can afford/what insurance covers etc.
But nothing. Correlation does not prove causation; it's a common logic fallacy. Sorry @ageingpartyfiend but you simply don't know what you're talking about here. You're drawing the wrong conclusions and I think @Didgital was probably right: this thread is a wasteland. MDMA did not change. It's still about as challenging to obtain the same starting precursor from the 80s and 90s (read: sassafras oil), and this doesn't matter anyway if the chemist is talented and has access to analytical machinery. There are multiple syntheses being used presently according to LE and even more theoretical syntheses. If you understand organic chemistry, than you know that a chemical cannot "become a pale imitations of itself" without becoming a different compound. At that point, we're no longer discussing MDMA.mdma....was an amazing drug a couple decades ago, became a pale imitation of itself around a period of time when it's primary precursor (forgive lacking science language) became much, much more difficult to source and the production process was changed. Correlation yeah, but ...
Also, I have a pet theory that the U.K. went through a sustained shortage of MDMA during a spell in which RCs filled the proverbial void left by MDMA's departure from the scene. Eventually the RC of choice was 4-MMC which is close enough in 5-HT activity to somewhat sub for MDMA and the U.K. ate (and snorted) it up. Many in the U.K., I think, may have just stopped searching for MDMA altogether. They basically just gave up looking, threw up their hands and said, "Oh well, so much for Mandy."
As if that's the only form of proof. Look, if you're talking about the Doncaster Rave from 1992, those kids are all hopped up on LSD and amphetamine speed paste, maybe a few of them on MDA and a few more on MDMA, but this really proves nothing beyond everyone was not just drinking booze that night.Have a look at footage of raves (uk in particular) in the 80's/90's. Have a good look at the dancing and in particular how the ravers look, their facial expressions, movements, and how they interract etc. Then find me any footage from say 2005 onwards with people looking/behaving similarly.
Here's a documentary I watched recently about EDC LA in 2010.
