About The Bill

About the Bill

Just as everybody has a unique fingerprint, so is our response to various pharmaceuticals and other healing modalities.  No reasonable person can expect a mass produced pharmaceutical to address all the subtle nuances of varying human physiology – but that is not stopping Big Pharma, the FDA, and Congress from trying to take away your right to individualized medicine.

If this legislation passes, federal regulators, not your doctor, will decide what medicines you can take.  Do you really want to leave your customized medicine needs in the hands of bureaucrats in the government? We cannot stand idly by while our pharmacists and doctors are forced to become mere dispensers of a few heavily-advertised, one-size-fits-all pharmaceutical products.

Among other things, the so-called Safe Drug Compounding Act of 2007 would give the Food and Drug Administration the power to:

Broadly eliminate the availability of many critical, commonly compounded medications that many patients rely on, such as bioidentical hormones for women, hospice care treatments for the terminally ill and customized medicines for children.

Determine when compounded medicines are needed - a decision that has always been and should always be made by doctors.

Restrict the compounded medications your doctor can prescribe even if he or she determines you need them. 

According to the Washington, D.C. political magazine Congressional Quarterly, pharmaceutical manufacturers are in “high lobby mode” in support of this legislation.  From what we understand, hospitals are staying silent, anticipating that they will be exempt from this bill.  We are working with doctor groups, compounding pharmacist organizations, consumer groups, and women associations among others, but it’s not enough. We are up against a highly organized, well-funded front and we need you to stop them.

A Sample of Those Affected

Menopausal women and andropausal men, the Autistic community, individuals living with HIV/AIDS, hospice patients, infants and young children with conditions like gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and people who are extremely allergic or sensitive to fillers, dyes, and additives in medicines will be left with no choice.