Rozerem
September 5th, 2006 -
How do you sleep?
How do you sleep, Takeda Drug Company? How do you sleep, FDA?
How much money do you, Takeda, pay to the FDA, in order that they grant you permission to say in your radio commercials that “Rozerem is non-habit-forming and couldn’t ever, ever, ever lead to abuse or dependence”?
We hear about addictions to porn, addictions to sex, addictions to “crackberries”, addictions to gambling, addictions to X-Boxes, addictions to food (although somehow about 70% of our population has very little to say about this one- perhaps they’re too polite to talk with their mouths full), notably we don’t hear about TV addictions but I recently heard that most American households have the Idiot Box turned on at least 6 hours a day.
But Oh No, not Rozerem! It’s “Non-habit-forming”, the FDA tells us so!
Now children, don’t take Rozerem if you’re taking Flubbasproxin or Splortablootamine. “Avoid taking with alcohol”, boys and girls. Translation: “Pop a half dozen of these little beauties and drink your 12-pack of Bu-bu-bu-buuuud Lite and you’ll be feelin’ all right!”
“Rozerem may cause decrease of certain hormones.” Translation: “Your pecker’ll fall off but you won’t care because you’ll sleep through it.”
So waddle right out and ask your doctors about Rozerem, all you gluttonous, slothful Americans, as you ponder why you’re a bunch of wheezing, (adult-onset) diabetic blobs of adipose tissue and you can’t get ro sleep. At least Rozerem will help you see all those Gargoyles that haunt what dreams you see before your sleep apnea awakens you.
Insensitive? Mean-spirited? “Won’t attract flies with vinegar”? I know as I write this, I’m not even as popular as an alarm clock with a broken snooze button. My message is, “WAKE UP, DING-A-LING”! My purpose is not to attract flies, my purpose is to awaken a few Humans, I hope, a few people who will, if you have the will-power, take responsibility for your eating, drinking, and sleeping habits instead of taking Rozerem after taking the FDA’s word that it’s “Non-habit-forming”.
If you’re angry at me, that’s good. How will you sleep, tonight?
—-Somebody commented, the comment is someplace in the ether-dust. This was my response:
NPR just made my case for me. They re doing a story about one Lester Crawford, an FDA bigwig who is to appear tomorrow before a federal magistrate to answer charges of improperly benefiting, failure to report transfer of and profit from stocks he wasn t supposed to own in the first place, so on… My point is, those people don t have holes in their hands, they don t walk on water. Not only is their research imperfect (e.g. They tested for twice recommended dosage and claim it had no or negligible effect on the abbadabba portion of the brain, but they didn t test for three times dosage, and they certainly didn t serve their test subjects any Margaritas,) but beyond making what might be an honest mistake, they could easily have falsified or concealed test results. Color me jade, jade, jaded if you must, but I d sooner trust a Nashville Bum than an FDA bureaucrat.
Again, if it works for you, super. Too bad you have to pay more than you would have had to, in the absence of government intrusion. I wonder where all the studies were done, and who holds the patent rights, and what portion of those rights ought rightly to belong to us taxpayers whose money they used for tests, facilities, and all of it.
More than ever, I maintain that the government needs a double dose of Butt-out-azine , together with pink slips for most of them, and a strict regimen of get a real job .
As to the Takeda people, I d be surprised if many or most of them weren t playing right along.
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So just now, I heard on the news that the FDA has finally OK’d Silicon-Boobies! Just get MRI’s annually, or come to me any time for Palpation Examinations, Ladies!!
Sheesh, I don’t understand how you can call those white-smocks “doctors”!! Just say “doctor” and 9 in 10 of you bow and scrape as if the Man Behind the Smock were a demi-god! Say he’s with the CDC, or the NIH, or the ONDCP, and y’all think he’s infallible! (Numerous expletives deleted!) OK, that’s enough for tonight.
Reason Writes:
I don’t disagree with your take on prohibition, although I think you’ll see government become like “Big Brother” only much, much worse in its attempt to “win” the War on (some) Drugs.
But you’re flat wrong about Rozerem!
As an insomniac I know that my doctor won’t prescribe me the drugs that will work because our government will harrass him for his trouble. I am stuck with taking antihistamines instead. Rozerem is not scheduled. In other words, no matter how you try, it just won’t get you high!
October 15th, 2006 at 9:17 pm