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FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant

303 pointsby impish920811/08/2024508 commentsview on HN

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MBCook11/08/2024

And yet homeopathy stuff is legal and often mixed in on the shelf with actual drugs.

Sigh. Still an improvement.

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nimbius11/08/2024

whats wild is this was a solution to a problem that was directly caused by neoliberal capitalism.

in the 90s and 2000s when meth first began to spike, the rural economy was changing. Jobs weren't paying as well or were going away altogether. Meth found a niche as a kind of performance enhancement drug for people working long hours at physically demanding jobs. journalist Nick Reding found this in the pork industry in Iowa, and anthropologist Jason Pine found in general in Missouri.

neoliberalisms solution was a ham fisted market based restriction that turned a normal cold drug into a rarity. we didnt start working to treat methamphetamine addiction as a disease until it began to spread into more affluent white-collar neighborhoods.

this could have been avoided with competent market reforms and regulation, as well as stronger labor protections and minimum wage law.

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gnabgib11/08/2024

Discussion (136 points, 76 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42083559

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intelligentuser11/09/2024

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readthenotes111/08/2024

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kbos8711/08/2024

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CodeWriter2311/08/2024

Junk Science invalidates effective medication. I’m calling this right now, in 5-10 years we’ll be discussing how it counteracts the spike protein.

colechristensen11/08/2024

Here's a solid completely factual reason why people don't trust the FDA or the government to give health advice. Pointless drug allowed for decades.

If you want to be trusted you have to be consistently trustworthy.

What else is the FDA wrong about and will continue to be wrong about for decades?

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