corner
Healthy Skepticism
Join us to help reduce harm from misleading health information.
Increase font size   Decrease font size   Print-friendly view   Print
Register Log in

Healthy Skepticism Library item: 8895

Warning: This library includes all items relevant to health product marketing that we are aware of regardless of quality. Often we do not agree with all or part of the contents.

 

Publication type: Journal Article

Statement of the American Pharmaceutical Association to the monopoly subcommittee of the Senate Small Business Committee of the United States Senate
J Am Pharm Assoc 1971 Sep; 11:468-473


Abstract:

Included in this report presented on May 26, 1971, are considerations of the role of selfdiagnosis and selfmedication on American life, the advertising and promotion of nonprescription drugs, the efficacy and safety of this class of drugs, and the role of the American Pharmaceutical Association in the education of pharmacists and the public on the use and misuse of such nonprescription drugs. While acknowledging that nonprescription drugs are a normal and potentially beneficial part of health care, the report notes that their misuse poses definite public health problems. The dangers of drug advertising, much of which is misleading, erroneous, and contributes to the drug orientation of American society, are stressed. The report recommends that drugs be reclassified from the present 2 categories, prescription and nonprescription, to 4: (1) to be dispensed at the request of a medical practitioner and renewable at the prescriber’s discretion only; (2) to be dispensed at the request of a medical practitioner and renewable for a reasonable period at the pharmacist’s discretion; (3) to be dispensed personally by a pharmacist at his professional discretion at the request of the patient; and (4) to be sold directly to the public without professional supervision or control. The need for increased professional control and guidance in the area of selfmedication and for complete reporting on the ingredients and strengths of over-the-counter drugs is emphasized.

 

  Healthy Skepticism on RSS   Healthy Skepticism on Facebook   Healthy Skepticism on Twitter

Please
Click to Register

(read more)

then
Click to Log in
for free access to more features of this website.

Forgot your username or password?

You are invited to
apply for membership
of Healthy Skepticism,
if you support our aims.

Pay a subscription

Support our work with a donation

Buy Healthy Skepticism T Shirts


If there is something you don't like, please tell us. If you like our work, please tell others.

Email a Friend








What these howls of outrage and hurt amount to is that the medical profession is distressed to find its high opinion of itself not shared by writers of [prescription] drug advertising. It would be a great step forward if doctors stopped bemoaning this attack on their professional maturity and began recognizing how thoroughly justified it is.
- Pierre R. Garai (advertising executive) 1963