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dalton99a

(90,306 posts) Tue Sep 9, 2025, 10:47 PM Sep 9

Trump Moves to Crack Down on Drug Advertising

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/health/fda-drug-advertising-warning-letters.html

https://archive.ph/kNlbE

Trump Moves to Crack Down on Drug Advertising
The administration is proposing a return to a 1990s-era policy that kept most drug ads off TV. That could dent the revenues of drugmakers and major networks.
By Rebecca Robbins, Christina Jewett and Dani Blum
Sept. 9, 2025 Updated 9:35 p.m. ET

President Trump signed a memorandum on Tuesday directing his administration to revive a decades-old policy that is likely to sharply restrict advertising of prescription drugs on television.

The move reflects one of the top priorities of the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has repeatedly called for a ban on drug advertising on television. The policy change threatens to dent the revenues of pharmaceutical companies.

The memorandum also stands to hit major television networks, which earn substantial revenue from pharmaceutical advertisers trying to reach older viewers.

The proposal, which would effectively reverse a 1997 policy change that opened the floodgates to a deluge of TV drug advertising, is likely to be aggressively opposed by the drug industry, which has long had the courts on its side on this issue.

Past efforts to even modestly restrict drug advertising have been blocked by the courts on First Amendment grounds. The White House said it planned to change the policy via a rule-making process.

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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/memorandum-for-the-secretary-of-health-and-human-services-the-commissioner-of-food-and-drugs/
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE COMMISSIONER OF FOOD AND DRUGS
September 9, 2025

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Trump Moves to Crack Down on Drug Advertising (Original Post) dalton99a Sep 9 OP

I don't object to that. RandySF Sep 9 #1

I am 100% behind this - waiting for the EO. walkingman Sep 9 #2

Sure, and he'll have details in two weeks . . . hatrack Sep 9 #3

Television? Trump really is stuck in the 1980s Johonny Sep 9 #4

Safe bet that there's some kind of grift involved like he will sell dispensations to specific drug makers AZJonnie Sep 10 #19

He's gonna piss off the wrong people one of these days Fiendish Thingy Sep 9 #5

Please start with Skyrizzy commercials. Intractable Sep 9 #6

OK by me, but he's still a POS. Silent Type Sep 9 #7

I've wanted this to happen for decades but a tRump taco order is only bait for large bribes to secure "special ImNotGod Sep 9 #8

There has to be another angle here newdeal2 Sep 9 #9

The less the public know about real medicine, the more they will fall prey to snakeoil salespeople. RockRaven Sep 9 #12

IIRC we can blame Clinton for this. Orrex Sep 9 #10

The US and New Zealand are the only developed countries which allow direct to consumer ads RockRaven Sep 9 #11

The unemployment lines will be filled with laid off dancers. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Sep 10 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Sep 10 #14

I'll take a wait and see attitude on this Justice Brandeis Sep 10 #15

Clearly Big Pharma has been slacking on the payola. TommyT139 Sep 10 #16

Sounds like for now they just have to include all side effects in ads womanofthehills Sep 10 #17

Please, please, please do this...nt Wounded Bear Sep 10 #18

Pharmaceutical companies might redirect funds blocked from advertising misanthrope Sep 10 #20

RandySF

(77,365 posts)

1. I don't object to that.