Another excellent example of a drug being taken off the market is Intal, or cromolyn sodium asthma inhalers. It was a popular and effective preventative inhaler for asthma in the 80's and 90's. Very safe with low side effects for patients.
Pfizer bought the rights to Intal in the USA in the 90's and took it off the market to protect their…
Another excellent example of a drug being taken off the market is Intal, or cromolyn sodium asthma inhalers. It was a popular and effective preventative inhaler for asthma in the 80's and 90's. Very safe with low side effects for patients.
Pfizer bought the rights to Intal in the USA in the 90's and took it off the market to protect their profits from the more-toxic inhaled steroid inhalers. Intal is still available in the rest of the world. The nasal version of cromolyn sodium - Nasalcrom - went off-patent and is now available as a cheap, over-the-counter medication. Pfizer didn't want that happening with Intal, so they paid to buy it and scuttle it.
And of course the grandaddy of them all in this regard is medical cannabis. Cannabis and opium were the two most popular medications of the 1800's in the US. Now half of the people in the USA with age-related osteoarthritis are taking CBD or full-specturm cannabis products. After a 60-year grass-roots campaign to repeal cannabis prohibition by thousands of volunteer activists, most of them sick people who found success treating themselves illegally with cannabis.
The US government has been working overtime to prevent wounded veterans and veterans with PTSD from accessing medical cannabis as well as MDMA.
Another excellent example of a drug being taken off the market is Intal, or cromolyn sodium asthma inhalers. It was a popular and effective preventative inhaler for asthma in the 80's and 90's. Very safe with low side effects for patients.
Pfizer bought the rights to Intal in the USA in the 90's and took it off the market to protect their profits from the more-toxic inhaled steroid inhalers. Intal is still available in the rest of the world. The nasal version of cromolyn sodium - Nasalcrom - went off-patent and is now available as a cheap, over-the-counter medication. Pfizer didn't want that happening with Intal, so they paid to buy it and scuttle it.
And of course the grandaddy of them all in this regard is medical cannabis. Cannabis and opium were the two most popular medications of the 1800's in the US. Now half of the people in the USA with age-related osteoarthritis are taking CBD or full-specturm cannabis products. After a 60-year grass-roots campaign to repeal cannabis prohibition by thousands of volunteer activists, most of them sick people who found success treating themselves illegally with cannabis.
The US government has been working overtime to prevent wounded veterans and veterans with PTSD from accessing medical cannabis as well as MDMA.