"Right To Try Woo" laws being advocated for...

[Warpy]

2. We used medications that hadn't been through the whole song and dance

at the height of the AIDS crisis in the 80s. By the end of the 80s, prognoses had climbed from a matter of hours to a matter of months, mostly due to substances we knew only by letters and numbers.

Now that the emergency is over and patients are maintained for years on drug cocktails, we're back to doing double blind studies. We skipped them in the big teaching hospitals back in the 80s, legal or not, on patients who were facing a quick and certain death. The double blind studies proceeded outside the hospitals with patients who were infected but not yet deathly ill.

There should always be a loophole for the terminal as long as they're advised that the drug might hasten their death or prolong their lives and it was unknown which it would be.