The 1940s and 1950s were historically infamous for producing experimental drugs in hopes of developing modern medicine. One such drug is phenpromethamine.
This drug was used in the early 1940s to create an inhaler called Vonedrine, which helped with nasal congestion.
Phenpromethamine was used in other types of medicine during World War II, such as pervitine, a stimulant that acts like a modern energy drink, but with steroids. dubbed the drug a cocaine substitute and a solution to the global cocaine addiction that began in the 1920s.
Many German soldiers, including Adolf Hitler, became addicted to pervitineWhile the main act of replacing one addiction with cocaine seemed to work, this was not a complete solution when replacing one addiction with another.
The drug has recently been included in a variety of weight loss products and supplements manufactured by companies in the pharmaceutical industry. Even more problematic is that the drug is part of the full list of drugs used in pre-modern medicine, although they have not been tested on humans.
The pharmaceutical industry has already developed a negative reputation for selling untested drugs. Because some drugs have “insignificant” side effects, these weight-loss products containing phenpromethamine have caught the attention of Harvard Medical School and the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
I’ve done a great deal of research myself on some of these products that I can’t mention for legal reasons. If you don’t do your research, you’ll have no idea what it is.
The U.S. National Library of Medicine provides a full list of negative side effects from administration of phenpromethamine, some of which can even be fatal. Peter A. Cohen, PhD, Harvard Medical School , was doing research on weight loss products looking for another drug called deterenol when I came across phenpromethamine.
Deterenol is neither FDA approved for use in such products nor is it listed in the product description. This is because deterenol also has negative side effects that can damage the human body.
Returning to Phenrpmetamine, as noted in Dr. Pieter A. Cohen’s Clinical Toxicology article, there is no record of this drug being tested in people before it was marketed to the public. The use of old, untested drugs and stimulants from the pre-modern medical era is very common in the pharmaceutical industry.
The FDA said this is a very common unethical and illegal practice practiced year after year by large companies.The way they do it is when they get caught they use an army of lawyers to get around it and then implement a different but very similar variant of the drug Not yet detected by the FDA and therefore not approved.
