This incident comes to mind:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
This incident comes to mind:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
Aspirin is a huge one. Doctors used to recommend those with heart disease take it to prevent blood clots. Turns out it increases the chance of blood vessels rupturing and causes stomach ulcers.
Aspirin is a huge one. Doctors used to recommend those with heart disease take it to prevent blood clots. Turns out it increases the chance of blood vessels rupturing and causes stomach ulcers.
But we still give it to prevent clots. It's just enteric coated now.
But we still give it to prevent clots. It's just enteric coated now.
Mefloquine - was given to a lot of service members in the 70s and 80s for malaria. It was supposed to be so straightforward that it skipped the final FDA trials. Turns out that it 1) didn't really help with Malaria and 2) gave a lot of people lifelong psychiatric problems.
Mefloquine - was given to a lot of service members in the 70s and 80s for malaria.
It was supposed to be so straightforward that it skipped the final FDA trials.
Turns out that it 1) didn't really help with Malaria and 2) gave a lot of people lifelong psychiatric problems.
Nice free psychedelic experiences for life
Nice free psychedelic experiences for life
There was a house in the town I grew up in that housed people with mental issues. The buzz was that most of them were vets from Vietnam that had taken too much LSD and now had permanent brain damage. I now wonder if it was linked to this instead.
There was a house in the town I grew up in that housed people with mental issues. The buzz was that most of them were vets from Vietnam that had taken too much LSD and now had permanent brain damage. I now wonder if it was linked to this instead.
Oxycontin
Oxycontin
Vioxx caused heart attacks and killed tens of thousands of people.
Vioxx caused heart attacks and killed tens of thousands of people.
Fen-phen was touted as the greatest weight loss drug until it started causing heart problems. Turns out it was basically just speed (ephedrine).
Fen-phen was touted as the greatest weight loss drug until it started causing heart problems. Turns out it was basically just speed (ephedrine).
All those student athletes died.
All those student athletes died.
Did they? I don't remember but I was only a teenager back then.
Did they? I don't remember but I was only a teenager back then.
So was I. And I used to do a lot of adderall. Once I did 300mg within a few hours.
So was I. And I used to do a lot of adderall. Once I did 300mg within a few hours.
I once took pseudoephedrine and then got on a stair climber that has the heart rate meter. I stopped when my rate was over 225.
I once took pseudoephedrine and then got on a stair climber that has the heart rate meter. I stopped when my rate was over 225.
Glyphosate (roundup)
Glyphosate (roundup)
Glyphosate wasn't really marketed as a medicine...
Glyphosate wasn't really marketed as a medicine...
Cured hunger didn't it? It's a pharmaceutical we keep learning more about and keeps looking worse. And worse for public health... They covered things up to get it released into our food supply. Shouldn't we hold our blood supply to a higher standard?
Cured hunger didn't it? It's a pharmaceutical we keep learning more about and keeps looking worse. And worse for public health... They covered things up to get it released into our food supply. Shouldn't we hold our blood supply to a higher standard?
Not really, it just made it easier for niggers to breed until there's no possible way we could feed them all.
Not really, it just made it easier for niggers to breed until there's no possible way we could feed them all.
Heroin. Cocaine. Et cetera.
Heroin. Cocaine. Et cetera.
Cocaine use to be a topical anesthetic. Now we only get the pussy shit.
Cocaine use to be a topical anesthetic. Now we only get the pussy shit.
DES
DES
Calomel: popular miracle drug of the 19th century; antiseptic used to treat or various infections, also a very effective laxative.
Medicinal side-effect: mercury poisoning.
Historical side-effect: using mercury concentrations in soil samples to locate every place the Lewis and Clark expedition stopped for a shit.
Calomel: popular miracle drug of the 19th century; antiseptic used to treat or various infections, also a very effective laxative.
Medicinal side-effect: mercury poisoning.
Historical side-effect: using mercury concentrations in soil samples to locate every place the Lewis and Clark expedition stopped for a shit.
Radithor - https://youtu.be/8MpR4k3-edc?t=406 Docs thought it was a wonder at the time.
The big list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_withdrawn_drugs
Radithor - https://youtu.be/8MpR4k3-edc?t=406 Docs thought it was a wonder at the time.
The big list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_withdrawn_drugs
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