LDNNow on LDN Politically

LDN can be prescribed off-label to treat anything. The NHS does not prevent this. The reason your doctor will refuse you LDN is that he is not covered by his insurance to prescribe a therapy which is not sanctioned by NICE. For NICE to sanction LDN, they require a trial. They will argue that the use of LDN to treat autoimmune disease opposes the current beliefs about what causes auto-immune diseases so trials are necessary.

However, the use of LDN to treat cancers does not conflict with current accepted knowledge, so the use of LDN to treat cancer is not even controversial. Trials and research costs money, and we need much research and trials to satisfy NICE. Now, if we cannot fund the trials and research in 30 years of trying, then we can see that they are never going to happen unless someone wins the lottery and funds the right people to do the right trials. Which means it will never happen, for LDN or any other generic drug.

The political part of the problem is this. We need to overcome the shortcoming of the system which means that effective generic drugs cannot be made available for new uses.Politicians can change the system so that NICE can accept clinical evidence from doctors who use a generic drug. They can then make an assessment, combined with knowledge from previously existing trials with the drug, and sanction generic drugs which will make them fall under the insurance for doctors and doctors will feel happy to prescribe it.

LDN is the sharp point of this spear, because it is so widely important clinically. It makes the generic drugs issue urgent because until it is resolved, people will die and, like myself, suffer avoidable disability leading to me being a drain on the economy rather than a professional contributor.This issue is as full of politics as a dead rat is full of maggots. So why do politicians talk about the medical issues and claim “not my bag” when we try to get them to talk about the politic? Are they blind? Do we want politicians who don’t see politics when it smacks them in the face? Rhetorical naturally.

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