Senate Confirms Robert Califf as Head of FDA.
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For Us, that would seem like the 64,000 Dollar Question.
I don't really Know?
I just wish that a Candidate could have been chosen that Didn't have so many Ties to Drug Companies.
I don't think that the fact that he consulted for, among other BPs, Johnson & Johnson (Nicorette) and Pfizer (Chantix, Nicotrol) bodes well.
I am a long time pain management patient and am wondering what is the recent uproar over opiate medications about? Oxycontin and others in that class were reformulated years ago to make them much less appealing for abuse. The delivery system was changed so that a person could no longer crush them up to get 12 hours worth of medication all at once. In fact, most of them became much less effective for chronic pain patients as well who are using them as prescribed. I'm quite sure they're going to make things even more difficult than it already is for those of us who have a legitimate need 
I'm really tired of all this regulation BS. People who abuse substances will always find things to abuse.
I'm really tired of all this regulation BS. People who abuse substances will always find things to abuse.
Complete Agree.
And I Don't Think it bodes well for the FDA as a whole to have Anyone in a Leadership Position (at any Level) that has Financial ties that Mr. Califf does.
In typical government fashion, they are trying to stop the rising trend of H addiction by overly regulating legal pain medication. Because it's a "gateway."I am a long time pain management patient and am wondering what is the recent uproar over opiate medications about? Oxycontin and others in that class were reformulated years ago to make them much less appealing for abuse. The delivery system was changed so that a person could no longer crush them up to get 12 hours worth of medication all at once. In fact, most of them became much less effective for chronic pain patients as well who are using them as prescribed. I'm quite sure they're going to make things even more difficult than it already is for those of us who have a legitimate need
I'm really tired of all this regulation BS. People who abuse substances will always find things to abuse.
Of course it is. I have had pancreatitis for 11 years. I'm sure any day now I'll be driving around Toledo looking for some of that other stuff.
Do you Ever just Look Up in the Sky, Throw up your Hands, and ask... "Can it even Get Any Worse?"
And then a ........ Falls out of a Tree and Hits you Squarely in the Forehead.
Watch mentioning .... .... around Tweety ;-)
Also of note, rabid anti-cig Markey and Blumenthal voted against him, but not for any ecig reason, I'm guessing. But the op...te situation.
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It was their opposition that made me think he might not be ANTZ.
Do you Ever just Look Up in the Sky, Throw up your Hands, and ask... "Can it even Get Any Worse?"
And then a Dead Squirrel Falls out of a Tree and Hits you Squarely in the Forehead.
Thank you, Kent!
Really, ZoiD....
Bernie opposed his nomination, too. Again, for different reasons.
I'm getting error 404 again... Grr...
Well, I guess we just keep getting smacked with dead squirrels.
Sorry Kat. A Momentary Lapse.
What with the FDA and State Legislations popping up Left and Right, and Batteries Exploding in Pockets.
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