Coincidence?

I was just over at Town Hall reading some of the columns when I ran across one by Mr Emmett Tyrrell entitled "Hysteria". In it he mentions a Dr. Rauck at the Carolina Pain Clinic.

For those of you who were around back then, you might remember that for much of September and October, I was out of my head with pain and withdrawals. This was because I was taking part in the exact same trials that Mr Tyrrell mentions!

By all means, go read what he has to say about the FDA and drugs, but keep this in mind - in the past the FDA has taken anywhere up to six or seven years testing before they released a new drug for use, and people bitched and moaned about that. Now they are having shit thrown at them because (mis) using a drug for ten years or more can have nasty side effects for a tiny fraction of the population.

Make up your minds, dammit! Either the FDA gives the long-term testing that the latest Vioxx scare would have needed or the drugs get released to the vast part of the population that desperately needs it.

One or the other. You can't have it both ways.