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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (263995)	12/9/2005 8:42:54 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575173

Al, I don't doubt that politics helped squash the move to make Plan B OTC. What I do doubt is the assumption that making it OTC is perfectly safe, or that the benefits of doing so outweigh the societal cost of misuse or abuse. Hence I view the FDA's 23-4 vote with a massive dose (no pun intended) of skepticism. In light of the "emergency prescriptive power" for pharmacists, however, I think extending that to all states makes much better sense than making Plan B OTC. Of course, I might be biased ... Tenchusatsu