1. Rescind the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, or have drug companies pay into a US Treasury Account to remove the FDA from the direct receipt of pharma fees for drug evaluations.
2 2. Make direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription pharmaceuticals illegal.
3 3. Make off-label use of prescription pharmaceuticals illegal, including prescribing drugs to children which are approved only for adults.
4 4. Clearly label any drug whose action is mental as a psychopharmaceutical. Physicians who administer psychopharmaceuticals to patients as "something to relax you, or make you more comfortable," without informing the patient that the drug's action is primarily mental (example Versed administered prior to colonoscopies to induce amnesia) will be charged with a criminal act. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nearly-half-of-antidepressants-not-prescribed-for-depression-study/ psychopharmaceuticals are now prescribed by primary care physicians off label for pain, insomnia, stomach disorders, etc.
5 5. Require the FDA to collect data on the effectiveness of drugs, especially psychopharmaceuticals, and if they are no more effective than placebos, they must be removed from the market.
6. Reduce the proprietary period of a pharmaceutical from 17 years to 7 years, and make it a crime to pay drug manufacturing companies to not create a generic equivalent of a proprietary drug after the 7-year period has elapsed.
7 7. New drugs similar to ones already established as safe and effective must prove they are safer and more effective than the established one. Manipulating a molecule is not enough.
8 8. Make it a crime for a physician or an FDA employee to receive gifts, stipends, speaker fees, etc., from pharmaceutical companies or regulated medical industries.
9 9. Make the FDA follow its mission, and treat any FDA collusion with regulated industries as a criminal offense.
1 10. Make pseudoephedrine and related drugs – which are used to manufacture methamphetamine – available by prescription only as a schedule III drug. Oregon and Mississippi have already done this with spectacular effects in reducing meth arrests and crimes.
1 11. Require the makers of pharmaceuticals which are showing up in the water supply (examples: birth control hormones, antidepressants, etc) to develop ways to clean them from sewage and water supplies and fund the removal efforts.
12. Require pharmaceutical companies to educate physicians and patients on how to stop taking a drug, and develop ways to mitigate the withdrawal symptoms of patients who wish to stop taking a drug such as an antidepressant or antipsychotic.
