Would / Do You ?

[Bazile]

There is an ad that's aired regularily on Smooth radio asking for volunteers to take part in drug trials for diabetes .

I know someone has 'got' to do it - would you / do you take part in an experimental drug trial ?

I suppose the cases a few yeras ago , where some drug trial went very badly wrong is the possible outcome that would deter me .

[B00]

Yes, some point last year there was an advert, on the radio for volunteers for flu prevention tests, successful candidates were to receive 3 grand! I did jot down the number, but never actually got 'roundtuit'.

[ladybirder]

Yes I would.

[Cloverjo]

I never have, but if I were young, with no dependants and needed the money, I'd do it. I know there was a bad outcome in one trial but they must do loads of them all the time and the vast majority turn out fine.

[Sqad]

The evaluation of their efficacy and safety is an arduous and costly process that involves laboratory work, animal studies and human trials. Someone must take a new drug first hence, human experimentation is unavoidable.

If the action of the new drug was explained to me, dangers (if known) and my informed consent was obeyed.........YES I would.

[wolf63]

I have taken part in research about Bipolar Disorder. But it did not involve drugs.

I would like to think that I would take part in a drugs trialto help my fellow man. But my own (unstable) health has to come first. I am not too sure if I would actually go through with it.

[B00]

Don't get me wrong, id only do it for cold hard cash and not for any misguided feelings of advancing medical science!

[Bazile]

sqad

//..and my informed consent was obeyed..//

What do you mean sqad ?

[Bazile]

I suppose if i had some illness that there was not currently a drug for , then i would seriously think about it

[ladybirder]

I didn't know you got paid when I said yes. That's a bonus. Where do I sign up?

I bet sqad means he will be setting out some rules about his treatment and woe betide anyone who doesn't follow them.

[Sqad]

Bazille....sorry..."obeyed" should have been "obtained."

[Peaspeculiars]

I used to recruit volunteers for a clinical trails facility and the screening, H&S and ethical considerations before releasing a study for trial are very extensive. The conditions for the trial volunteers were great at the facility and they had 24 hr care from doctors should they need anything during the phase.
I would do it yes. But if it meant swallowing one of the pills I saw, I don't think I could - they were huge! (encapsulated in plastic for a timed release into the system).

[Arksided]

I would happily help my fellow Human beings with drug testing for asthmatics. They'd have to put on the Hobbit or a rom-com so I'd be properly sedated before they inject me with anything.

[Peaspeculiars]

Just remembered, each volunteer has to take a certain amount of time off before they can take part in their next trial. Some of our volunteers used to apply to a local competitor straight after their trial to try and get as many trials as they could (and as much cash in as possible) within the year. But these company's do talk to each other to ensure volunteers couldn't do this as it was deemed dangerous to undertake too many trials in a set period of time (usually 3-6months). So if you do decide to have a go, you are restricted to how many you can do.

[Marshwarble]

I did put my name down for some trials a few years back, but backed out.

[Old_Geezer]

I'd only contemplate that sort of thing if I were either really desperate for the money or desperate for a cure. The chances of it going wrong may be small, but as demonstrated it can be devastating if it does; and you could blame no one but yourself.

[ethandron]

I donated a slice of my bum for diabetes research about twenty years ago, does that count?? :)

[Marshwarble]

More info, ethandron?

[ethandron]

Youngest son, then aged 10, newly diagnosed type 1, all of us struggling to get our heads round it. His specialist nurse told us of some research being done that required diabetic and non diabetic people to donate a bit of their bum, so I volunteered.
I kept son off school and he and I made a day of it..taxi from station to hospital, interesting time having bit of bum removed, son allowed to stay and observe the procedure and made a fuss of by doctor and nurses, special lunch in fancy restaurant afterwards.
Did me and him good to have a day together doing something interesting, and hopefully my bit of bum helped in the research.
It was actually only a very small bit of bum... :)