Man dies after being left brain-dead from the serious side effects during a drugs trial in France
Just imagine what a non-opiate pain medication would do to “DEA’s world” war on drugs ? They would be left with dealing with cartels and “street thugs” that will shoot anyone that interferes with their business plan ? My money is if this drug or some derivative eventually is proven safe/effective.. that the FDA will use this one incident to stall off approval in this country. It is hard to imagine one part of the Federal bureaucracy that would do something that could harm the size/power of another part of the bureaucracy. Inflicting that sort of pain on part of the Federal bureaucracy would be unthinkable ?
A man who was left brain-dead after a drugs trial in France went seriously wrong has died, according to the hospital which had been treating him.
Five other volunteers were also hospitalised after taking the trial painkiller on January 7 are now ‘in a stable condition’, according to the statement released by the hospital in Rennes.
But three of the men are suffering a ‘handicap that could be irreversible’, according to Pierre-Gilles Edan, the head of the hospital’s neurology department, and another has neurological problems.
It is the worst incident of its kind in French medical history, and the country’s health minister Marisol Touraine called it ‘an accident of exceptional gravity… without precedence’.
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Trial: French health Minister Marisol Touraine (pictured) described the trial as ‘an accident of exceptional gravity…without precedence’. One man who was left brain-dead has now died, according to the hospital
Drugs test: Three separate investigations have been launched after six volunteers at the Biotrial laboratory in Rennes were taken to hospital, in the worst incident of its kind in French history
The volunteers took part in a trial run by private laboratory Biotrial, to test a new pain and mood disorder medication for Portuguese pharmaceutical company Bial.
A total of 108 volunteers took part in the trial – 90 of which were given the drugs in varying doses while the rest were given placebos.
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This is probably as popular to the DEA, Big Pharmaceutical Companies, and some politicians as alternative fuels are to Petroleum Giants. No one really wants to fix this when there’s so much money to be made on multiple Dr appointments, non-medically necessary drug tests, drugs, especially reformulated or abuse deterrent drugs, specialists for each little problem and so on…What a huge mess that has been making a bunch of money for a bunch of people and we haven’t even started on the lack of need for addiction centers if this type of drug were ever discovered!!!
You’re absolutely right, Steve Ariens, big win for everyone but chronic pain patients!