2005N-0354
  

  
Consumer-Directed Promotion of Regulated Medical Products; Part 15 Public Hearing
  


  

  

  


  

  
FDA Comment Number : 
  

  
EC427
  



  

  
Submitter : 
  

  
Mrs. Patricia  Devlin
  

  
Date & Time: 
  

  
02/01/2006 11:02:38
  



  

  
Organization : 
  

  
Mrs. Patricia  Devlin
  



  

  
Category : 
  

  
Individual Consumer
  



  

  
Issue Areas/Comments 
  


  

  


  

  
GENERAL
  


  

  



  

  
GENERAL
  


  

  



  

  
 I am pleased to see that the issue of pharmaceutical advertising is finally being addressed.  I am a rather fervent capitalist in many ways, but the effect that is being created by the enormous quantity of advertising of drugs is something that must be controlled.  



We are clearly becoming a society of drug users. This is made more and more prevalent daily by the media brainwashing we undergo on the "need" for these chemical products to solve all of our problems.  It would take a most obtuse individual to not see the connection between the rise in legal drug use and the popularity and acceptability of the illegal varieties.  



We can never win the "war on drugs" if we are so duplicitous that we promote their use so promiscuously for the benefit of the pharmaceutical stockholders.