Some readers
of this blog are commenting how hard it is to obtain prescription only drugs
for “off-label” use in autism.
None of the drugs
mentioned in this blog are actually approved for use in autism. There is some science showing that they might
be effective, but there is no mention of autism on the “label” approved by the
regulator.
This means
that your doctor will not know how to prescribe it and your insurer will not
want to pay for it.
So how do I access these drugs?
This is a
frequent question. In theory you do not
need to wait for the drug to be approved, you can apply to the national drug
agency in your home country for permission to use a drug based on the
experimental use that showed it might be effective.
Better
still, in many countries like the USA, doctors are not banned from prescribing “off-label”
drugs. If the doctor follows the new research,
he is permitted to apply it on his own patients. If he does it recklessly, he might eventually
lose his license.
In cancer
therapy, many drugs are used off-label.
Why not just approve a new use for an
old drug?
This would
seem an obvious question and this is what is being done with bumetanide, one of
drugs described in this blog.
The problem
is the cost and the time taken: EUR 4 million
(USD 5 million) and four years.
As you can
see below, in the case of Bumetanide, the French Government will contribute EUR
1 million and it appears the Simons Foundation another EUR 1.5 million.
Since
Bumetanide is available today as a cheap generic drug, they cannot really ever
get their money back. Only if they
modified the molecule slightly, patented it, and got that new drug
approved could they recoup their USD 5 million, which would then be even more, since they would have even higher costs.
The last I heard, Bumetanide will only be approved for autism in Europe, not the USA, due to cost issues.
So with this
kind of financial logic, you can see why off-label uses of old generic drugs
are likely to stay off-label.
Best find yourself an off-label doctor.
There is no such thing as "asperger's". Psychiatry itself is a bogus science. The following articles and essays explain this:
ReplyDelete12 Part essay that exposes psychiatry as a bogus science
http://antipsychiatry.org/
Inventor of ADHD: “ADHD is a fictitious disease”
www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=1608
Co-Founder of DSM admits there is no way to scientifically prove that mentall illness is real
www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-disorders/psychiatrists-on-lack-of-any-medical-or-scientific-tests/
One year old babies and younger being put on psychiatric drugs
http://www.infowars.com/babies-on-psychiatric-drugs-crime-with-no-punishment/
Psychiatric Drugs Shorten Life Span by 15 years on average
www.stopshrinks.org/reading_room/antipsych/psych_drugs_shorten_life.html
Psychiatry is based on lies and falsehoods
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/the-lying-liars-who-lie-about-psychiatry/
Psychiatry is a fake science
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/more-evidence-psychiatry-is-a-fake-science/
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_industrypsychiatry26.htm
Every human emotion is now a "mental illness"
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_industrypsychiatry27.htm
Ten Myths about Psychiatric Drugs
http://www.metzelf.info/information/myths.html
Studies show psychiatric drugs have no benefits and are dangerous
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/three-new-studies-show-%E2%80%9Cpsychiatric-drugs-provide-no-benefit-and-are-dangerous%E2%80%9D/
Psychiatry is now giving 3 year old children drugs
http://www.anh-usa.org/medicaid-psychiatric-drugs/
Psychiatric drugs make you sicker
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/03/05/are-psychiatric-medications-making-us-sicker/
A few free eBooks talking about how psychiatry is a massive hoax
http://www.psychiatric-help.org/PSYCHIATRIC-HELP/default.asp
A list of THOUSANDS of psychiatrists who have committed crimes against their patients
http://www.psychcrime.org/database/
I tend to agree that that Psychiatry is anything but a science. I think brain disorders should be diagnosed and treated by neurologists, in a hundred years this may just happen.
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