right-to-try act/law

Notes

• the law says that people with life-threatening conditions who have exhausted all approved treatment options can access drugs not yet approved by FDA, but have passed phase 1 clinical trials
• may have created unrealistic expectations about what the measure will do for patients
  • patients may think there are promising drugs that they are being denied, & that this law is going to make effective drugs available to them
  • pharmaceutical companies already provide experimental medicines outside of clinical trials through the FDA's expanded access program
• law more appropriately named right-to-ask law
• terminal cancer patients have tried to gain access to psilocybin, a schedule 1 drug under the Right to Try Act

More general terms

• legislation