What's wrong with flibanserin, the purported libido booster for women who "suffer" from abnormally low sexual desire? Leonard Glantz, a professor of health law, bioethics,
and human rights at the Boston University School of Public Health and of sociomedical
sciences and community medicine at the university's School of Medicine, has a litany of issues with it, starting with the drug's failure to work, its unpleasant side effects, and the fact that it's almost impossible to define "normal sexual desire."
"The reality is that the company making this drug, like all companies, is in the
business of selling a product," Glantz told BU Today. "One way to do that is to increase
demand. Those are just general marketing rules, so there’s no question
that the company has an interest in convincing women that they have a
disorder and they need this pill. Some people call it disease mongering.
It’s problematic, and it doesn’t make the country feel any better."
Wait, there's more, including Glantz's take on attempts to measure desire:
"You can’t measure desire. I could have you fill out a questionnaire
every day that asks, do you want ice cream or not. All I’m measuring is
your desire, not how much ice cream you actually eat, or what kind of
ice cream it is. If the general public wants ice cream every day, and
you want it just twice a week, you’re suffering from hypoactive ice
cream disorder. And I have a pill for you, so you can want ice cream
more. I, for example, have no golf desire. I have hypoactive golf
disorder."
All big pharma companies are only in it for the money and the right to health has become a privilege of the wealthy and a part of the worst of capitalism (Jefferson warned us but nobody listened!:;, i.e., “Unregulated capitalism will destory itself and the economy of the nation”.).
A majority of the meidicines produced now have side effects that create new problems so that one has to take a new “pill” for that, which causes new side effect, for which you take a new pill and on and on.
Even our food is now so tainted with chemicals, so processed and poisined that it might be wiser not to eat but it is “new and improved!”, soon to be genetically altered.
All of this is going on as the government takes its share and has abandoned the concept of protecting the citizens whom it supposedly represents…perhaps only the big pharma, and big agra and the big oil companies are citizens…
If the shoe fits wear it and if a woman thinks her sexual desire is lacking then mabey it is. I used to think I was totally normal until I went to my doctor and he suggested that I get a blood test to determine if my testosterone level was with in the normal level for a 40 year old male. The results came in and I was rather suprised. I had a T level of 190 and my doctor said that I should be somewhere around 3-6 hundred. I was prescribed testosterone and started taking it,and would you know I gained energy and started sleeping better and have a much better sexual desire than before. My point is if a drug that may help women is marketed for sexual desire, does that make the pharm company the bad guy ? I think no! My exwife used to say she could careless about sex and it bothered me and effected our marriage quite abit. If this drug can bring intamacy back into a relationship that is a great accomplishment and should be commended. Im certain if the pill has bad side effects then people wont take it. I know alot of men that Viagra gives massive headaches to but not everyone has that side effect. Its works for most and that is for the benefit of the majority.
This is so true. Additionally doctors get reimbursed making poeple sick, here in the united states, “Land of The Free”.
Where is the medical and scientific support for this article? I see nothing but opinion by one author with no references to studies or actual cases referenced; just mentioning the professors opinion without citing an article or actual case findings does not substantiate the opinion as factual. Show me the disproof!