The FDA has been known to discourage, or even outright ban substances that will directly compete against the pharmaceutical FDA approved drugs. Even to this day the FDA maintains a relentless hostile stance toward supplements and treatments that are not sanctioned by the FDA no matter how much scientific studies that supports it, unless they have gone through the FDA's approval process and thus becomes a drug. These policies prevent millions from ever knowing about food or supplemental remedies that are not only cheaper, more effective that of the synthetic FDA approved drugs.
The AMA seems to not like the competition for medicine, their main focus seems to be on conventional drugs and surgery. The AMA, especially does not like doctors who provide advice on damaging GMO foods, supplements that can treat or cure illness. AMA and their affiliates are known to hold ties to the pharmaceutical industry and need their financial support. The advertising of prescription drugs was made legal in the USA back in 1985, the pharmaceutical companies have become very dependent on it for
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Because the U.S. was seriously lacking in resources at the FDA, drug's approval was at a snail's pace compared to the rate in Europe. The United States was over a year behind that of Europe, more than half of the drugs that got approved in the U.S. had already hit the pharmacy shelves overseas almost a year earlier. As a result, patients, physicians, advocacy groups, with pharmaceutical companies were all dismayed that Americans were being denied the access to new medicines. In an effort to remedy this problem, Congress enacted the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) Of 1992. This act was to provide a path whereby charges were imposed upon the pharmaceutical companies, for each New Drug Application (NDA) Filed. The profits earned from the "user fees" were used to hire 600 new drug analyst and support