Comments on: Following Morphine Recall and Other Generic Drug Problems, KV Pharma Suspends All Shipments

By: johann

johann — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:52:27 +0000

why don’t we take some tax money (this time WELL spent) and a one time fee of 1 % of the annual profits (not revnues) from each drug manufacturer and create an “e-mail address chain”. the data is already in the DEA computers. Put every physician and every pharmacy on that list and when there is a recall, the FDA/DEA can write it, one push of the send button and -according to numbers I have looked up- we should have a total of about 300 K doctors and 100K pharmacies in the u.s., let’s say 500K addresses altogether. to string them together should take an even slow co. 2 weeks at most. then a recall is relayed to everyone within a few seconds (probably 24 hrs before everybody reads it ) and not weeks or months. With the 1 % contribution you could create dozens of such “strings” and since all doctors and pharmacies Have to be licensed, EVERYBODY would be informed.
We are talking about patient’s life here, potent drugs, not some vitamins. So our new government can show how much they are on the ball. Plus, people should be not SO trusting. Just because a dr. gives you a Rx and the pharmacist fills it does not mean you should take it sight unseen. There are a lot of ways to doublecheck (2nd opinion, compare label and drug’s appearance etc..) Unfortunately, there are mostly elderly patients who are not as informed etc., so that’s where friends, familymembers etc. come in.
Yes, patients should be able to trust the government and doctors and pharmacies, but they have ALL made mistakes in the past, no? Some selfprotection is also needed and if a patient is not quite sure, ASK ANOTHER DR. OR PHARMACIST!!.
As for the FDA and DEA to create a “protection wall”: get cracking!!

By: john

john — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:34:25 +0000

all recalls should by law be published to at least all physicians and/or pharmacies or in a government paid ad in a major newspaper as soon as a recall occurs. we spend 100 billion for an AIG bailout but who really cares about the public’s health??

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:23:36 +0000

I have been taking this drug from Ethex and I was not notified regarding this recall. When I called my pharmacy they were not aware of the problem and told me to call back Monday? I was effected by this drug where I just wanted to sleep, not eating, and my respatrory system was very very shallow. I could not function on this mediacation now I know why,. I was trying to locate the drug and that is when I was informed there was a recall on this. I fell as though I should have been contacted ASAP and was not? I find this very distrught and I don’t know what to do. I felt that I was going to die when taking this. I dicussed with my Dr that I couldn’t keep my eyes open, and I felt awful. Then I find out through the FDA site this was on the recall list. I stopped using this medication as soon as I found out this major problem had occured