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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 09 2018, @11:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the give-it-a-try dept.

Groups funded by Charles and David Koch have launched ad campaigns aimed at urging Congress to pass legislation that would make it easier for terminally ill patients to try experimental treatments. The bill passed the Senate unanimously, but FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told the House in October (archive) that the FDA already approves 99% of requests for expanded access/compassionate use, and that the primary roadblock is not the FDA, but drug supply constraints. He said that pharmaceutical companies do not continuously manufacture a drug undergoing clinical trials, but instead produce "discontinuous batches":

Several deep-pocketed political advocacy groups founded by Charles and David Koch are ramping up their advocacy before Congress on a niche issue: access to experimental drugs.

On Monday, several Koch-backed groups, including Freedom Partners and Americans for Prosperity, launched an ad campaign urging Congress to pass so-called "right-to-try" legislation, which aims to help terminally ill patients access experimental treatments that haven't yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The Senate unanimously passed a right-to-try bill from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) last August, but it has since stalled in the House. Supporters, including lawmakers on Capitol Hill and other off-the-Hill advocates, are focusing their efforts this month on the Energy and Commerce Committee, which would likely have to clear the legislation before the full House could vote on it.

The new ad campaign — also sponsored by Generation Opportunity and The LIBRE Initiative — directly addresses Congress, saying at the end of one commercial, "Congress, give patients a chance. Pass right to try." In addition to a series of digital ads focused on D.C. and key congressional districts, the campaign will include lobbying efforts by the groups, according to a press release. In a letter sent Monday to Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.), executives wrote, "We strongly urge your committee to act expeditiously to approve Right to Try legislation and send the bill to the House Floor for a full vote."

Johnson told STAT he's doing everything he can this month to get the legislation passed, and suggested the vice president might become even more engaged. Vice President Mike Pence has supported right-to-try efforts since he signed a similar law as governor of Indiana.

S.204 - Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday January 10 2018, @02:02AM (11 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @02:02AM (#620307) Homepage Journal

    The opioid crisis is the worst drug crisis in American history. I proclaimed it a Public Health Emergency. Addressing it will require all of our effort, and it will require us to confront the crisis in all of its very real complexity. It is time to liberate our communities from the scourge of drug addiction. We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic. We can do it.

    One of the things our administration will be doing is a massive advertising campaign to get people, especially children, not to want to take drugs in the first place because they will see the devastation and the RUINATION it causes to people and people’s lives. There is nothing desirable about drugs. They are bad. We want the next generation of young Americans to know the blessings of a drug-free life.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @02:07AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @02:07AM (#620310)

    Are you certain that it is happening? how can you know, you need to have first hand experience to truly understand like going to the boarder, you cannot know a thing until you have been to it.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @03:05AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @03:05AM (#620324)

      Does the boarder get room, or just the board? Or, possiblly, did your illiterate self mean "Border"? Hate to brake it to you, but their too different words.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @03:17AM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @03:17AM (#620328)

        congragts your defending the orange monkey

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @05:11AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @05:11AM (#620345)

          I want an opiod boarder, or a board with opiates on it. Or an orange monkey on a board, Old Skool, all Braveheart with the Trumpster! Yeah! Drawing and quartering is just too good for some traitors. Besides, he would probably tweet that it was the greatest execution ever, with the largest crowds. And, he would probably be right.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @06:08AM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @06:08AM (#620357)

            First thing that opiods take, is your sens of restraint. Then, they take your sense of smell! When you are high, farts smell like roses! And then they take your sense of immobility, you cannot tell that you haven't moved for 18 hours! And finally, they take your ability to spell. Trump. Drumpf. Hillarity. Sallad. Word Salad. Suddenly you are the Gratest! You are making Ameriga Freight Against! Mind! Trying! T% Think. . . . W@hyu does Takyon keep posting all these Alzheimer stories, anyway?

            • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:55AM

              by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:55AM (#620382) Journal

              W@hyu does Takyon keep posting all these Alzheimer stories, anyway?

              I can try an elaborate answer, but my hands shake too much and...
              ... ummm... for some reason I can't actually remember what we were talking about...
              I do vaguely recall I somehow like those stories

              (grin)

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by captain normal on Wednesday January 10 2018, @06:31AM (3 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @06:31AM (#620363)

    Ronny and Nancy tried that approach over 35 years ago. Called it "Just Say No". It didn't work very well for the country. Did wonders for the cocaine dealers and the cartels though. Also the Taliban warlords Were given free reign to produce and export huge amounts of opium through Pakistan. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone).

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    • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday January 10 2018, @08:45AM (2 children)

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @08:45AM (#620389) Homepage Journal

      I inherited a mess. As you know. Doctors handing out drugs like candy, like they were candy. Drugs coming in across our borders, from Canada and Mexico. I proclaimed a public health emergency. Like Chris Christie, Governor Christie, wanted me to. I asked Congress for money to build the Wall. I want to hire more guys into my Customs & Border Patrol (JOBS).

      I'm bringing in Alex Azar -- I nominated him -- to run my Health & Human Services. Trust me, nobody knows more about drugs than Alex, you're going to love him. He's done a beautiful job in Dubya's Health & Human Services and at Eli Lilly.

      And I'm getting very tough on Pakistan. They need to respect the United States! The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!

      • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:04AM

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:04AM (#620394) Homepage Journal

        One more thing, I have @ElChap0Guzman locked up. El Chapo and the Mexican drug cartels were using the border unimpeded like it was a vacuum cleaner, sucking drugs and death right into the U.S. He tweeted to me, "keep fucking around and I’m gonna make you swallow your bitch words you fucking whitey milkshitter @realDonaldTrump." Which he tweeted in Spanish (Mexican). But I locked him up. I'm the only guy who could do that. I'm WINNING!

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Pino P on Wednesday January 10 2018, @03:31PM

        by Pino P (4721) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @03:31PM (#620488) Journal

        If you want to end the opioid crisis, treat cannabis like alcohol. Let the several states exercise their right under the 21st Amendment to regulate trade in cannabidiol (CBD), tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and hemp fiber as they see fit. This creates JOBS for hemp farmers, JOBS for manufacturers of hemp products, and local JOBS for licensed dealers. If you feel like getting tough, get tough on the DEA for not descheduling the parts of cannabis that don't get you high.

        Hemp will make American-made workwear strong again. CBD will make people with seizure disorders safe again. This is how you Make America Great Again®.

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:41PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:41PM (#620591) Journal

    Addressing it will require all of our effort..

    And seeing as how you're expending zero effort to address it now that's like infinity more effort!