Ask a Patient Opinion Poll

Rate the job the FDA is doing on regulating prescription drug advertisements aimed at consumers.

Voter Comments (the following are opinions of readers and not AskaPatient.com)

• they still use subliminal messaging to make bad drugs look good

• legal drug money is big business

• Ads on presrciption drugs should be banned.

• There should be minimal pharm advertising for prescription drugs as it should be decided by MD.

• Drug commercials and lawyer commercials drive me insane.

• Not confusing, but very misleading

• antidepressants should add cautionary language as they are so very dangerous.

• This government ahould not be allowed to have a lobbyist give them campaign...

• They put anything on the market to make a dollar, they do not care what harm it brings to the consumer

• Drug adverts should be banned.

• These companies are not accountable, why

• they are inappropriate, especially for kids watching live football games/ it is almost every ad!

• While telling us all the terrible reactions, we see happy smiling folks, made up professionally.

• ...."side effects, including death." Disgusting.

• Prescription drug ads should be taken off TV!

• Get them the hell off the air!!!!

• CIPRO, STATINS, WARFARIN. The FDA and Big Pharma wear the same bowling team shirts: "Make Money"

• The FDA is corrupt.

• Ads always present happy healthy people in the ad: the words warn against side effects, images don't

• The FDA might is not doing their job at the expense of everyone.

• DO NOT ALLOW ANY ADVERTISING

• Mouth sores, leg muscle pain, fatigue and eye pressure

• Drugs shouldn't be advertised.

• THIS MEDICATION HAS TO BE TAKEN OFF OUR STORE SHELVES ALOT OF PEOPLE ARE HAVING VERY BAD REACTIONS A

• Not enough testing on drugs before they are released to the public.

• they shouldn't be advertised at all

• The FDA is unassailably corrupt

• Nothing new for depression that Medicaid covers.

• Drug companies should not be allowed to advertise, isn't deciding on a med your doctors job?

• FDA's interest is solely for the ptomotion of high cost new brand name drugs.

• Fail, not because the ads are misleading, but because they are seductive.

• The FDA is in Big Pharm's pocket!

• end them

• stay away from prescription drugs as much as possible; they kill people.

• telling someone a drug wil kill you at the same time looking at them laughing is deceiving

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