Obviously the FDA isn’t paying attention to the abuses by the pharmaceutical industry. They run tests to solve one problem and then out of the blue, they start selling it for yet another problem. Maybe it works out OK but maybe it doesn’t. Keep in mind that the US spends more per person on pharmaceuticals than any other country on the planet. This move is all about keeping the money train moving and has very little to do about saving lives.

A 2006 study estimated that more than 20 percent of all prescriptions written by doctors were for unapproved uses. But drug makers have in the past abused doctors’ discretion by telling them that some medicines were appropriate for patients in whom the drugs may have caused more harm than good. In 2004, Pfizer paid a $430 million fine to resolve criminal and civil charges that it marketed its epilepsy drug Neurontin for conditions in which the company’s own studies suggested that the drug was ineffective.