As you know, pharmaceutical drugs often have adverse side effects. These side effects are under-reported, often denied by the media/medical field, and cause a lot of problems for many people. I've worked with a lot of patients who suffered permanent irreversible harm, and as a physician, know a lot about the "iatrogenic" issue.

Of the drugs on the market, you can group them into varying degrees of "harmfulness." The ones at the top of that scale cause a high percentage of people who take them to suffer severe permanently debilitating side effects. Some of my patients, after finding facebook support groups for people who had been harmed by the medication they took, began a research project to examine support groups for most of the pharmaceuticals on the US market. They then went and forwarded me the groups they felt I "needed to know about." Interestingly, one of the most harmful drugs (I would say it's one of the top 5 semi-commonly used drugs in the USA, not counting stuff everyone knows is harmful like chemo) I have come across is Lupron and I spent about 10 hours reading through all the bad experiences people have had with the drug (odd hobby but understanding the harms of medications helps me take care of patients).

Lupron is used to:

a) Deal with any female problem the basic therapies such as oral contraceptives cannot fix.

b) Deal with hormonally responsive cancers by stopping your body's production of hormones.

c) Stop puberty by stop the body's production of hormones.

A lot of people who have taken Lupron have had their lives really fucked up by it. Many many women who had is prescribed for a gynecological problem basically feel their OBGYN ruined their lives, never warned them of the potential side effects from the drug, and would give anything to have taken it back. I have also read people in the other 2 categories saying they suffered a large degree of harm from the drug, but the main group reporting adverse events in public forums are women using it for women's health reasons.

As Rand Paul highlighted, this (and a few related drugs) are the medications that the entire left is pushing through to make easily accessible to children, despite the fact they've never even been tested or approved for that use.

Feel free to share this. If you want to learn more or verify my claim, feel free to look up one of the facebook patient groups on the drug. I have heard about negative reports from the other hormone blocking drugs, but I do not know as much about their toxicity profile as they aren't as commonly used in Women's medicine. I am not specifically an advocate about Lupron's harms, but it blows my mind all the people promoting this drug to children have no idea how toxic it is.