How About a Three-Year Moratorium on Advertising Prescription Drugs?

Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, has started a campaign to ban advertising of new prescription drugs for the first three years, when most harmful side effects are still in process of being discovered.

TV drug ads - Now Congress considers a ban!

Your petition signatures, emails and personal frustrations with TV drug advertising are really getting noticed!

A bill was just introduced in the House [H.R. 6151] banning advertising of new drugs and devices for the first three years on the market. It also requires TV drug and device ads include a toll-free number, so we can easily report serious side effects to the FDA.

This bill will really improve the safety of prescription drugs. The first few years a drug is on the market is when harmful side effects are likely to emerge. Banning ad campaigns will keep a new drug from being overused until its risks are better known.

And telling us how to report serious side effects in TV ads will get important safety information to the FDA more quickly.

Tell your member of Congress to support this important bill now. The momentum is growing to do something about TV drug and device ads thanks to you!