Losing faith in the pharmaceutical industry

I'm not sure if most drug consumers weigh the risks against the benefits of certain pharmaceutical drugs that may be in that medicine cabinet. If not, are you putting yourself at risk? In many cases, you just may be.

With Vioxx, Celebrex, Naproxen (and on and on) either pulled off the pharmacist's shelf (and replaced, like with Vioxx) or with the stern warnings that some drugs now come with, the solution to pain hopefully doesn't just rest with a single synthetic drug.

Even if it does, the new drug Arcoxia (meant to replace Vioxx) should not be approved according to a panel of federal health advisers who overwhelmingly recommended this Thursday (which I posted on here). Why? Because Arcoxia may increase substantially the risk of stroke and heart attack and is no more effective for pain relief than other medicines in the same class (according to an FDA expert).

Is it me or has the pharmaceutical pain relief industry gone amok? What is the solution here?