Reply #12: Good points. [View All]

[toodles_oduff]

I'm not favor of anyone OD'ing on Niacin, Ephedra or any supplements, Rx drugs, or OTC drugs. That said. I do think that the pharmaceutical companies keep rolling the goalpost back in terms of which people should be taking their drugs. For instance, the new lower standards of what constitutes "high" cholesterol or hypertension. Numbers once considered normal are now considered "borderline" high and these suggestions that 36 million people should be taking statins rather than the 12 or so million currently on them. I don't doubt that the drugs to treat these conditions and ADD can be very beneficial and even life-saving to some. But I smell a grab for big profits when I see these stories in the newspapers and news magazines who seem to derive a large percentage of their ad revenue for Rx drug advertising.