Did You Know Doctors Are Prescribing Non-FDA-Approved Drugs? They Didn't Either.

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That's comforting, right?
Apparently, there are drugs that have been marketed since before the 1962 law that requires drugs to go through FDA review. The NYT is reporting that the FDA says that many doctors are unaware that the medicines they are prescribing were never approved by the FDA.
The FDA says the the manufacturers of this group of unapproved drugs have 90 days to stop manufacturing them and 180 days to stop distribution.

Did You Know Doctors Are Prescribing Non-FDA-Approved Drugs? They Didn't Either. - The Consumerist