Clinical Drug Trials on Humans

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Clinical drug trials are tests on drugs to find out if the outcome is a cure to the disease or not. In other words, clinical drug trials are done to figure out the effectiveness of the drug. Clinical drug trials are ethical because the scientists are trying to find hope and cures to diseases that may be taking over a person’s life. Chase, who has fragile X syndrome, showed signs that the drug he took in a clinical drug trial, minocycline, was working when he began to develop the abilities to understand things and respond to others. Also, clinical drug trials started back since the start of civilization and now the 20th century has advance much more in medicine. These clinical drug trial are being done for humans, are for people’s benefit, and can give to someone a better future. Therefore, clinical drug trials are ethical to be used on humans. First, people who participate in these clinical drug trials can find medicine that helps them to cure or get better from their own disease or illness. Chase has fragile X syndrome, so this causes him to not have certain abilities. He partici...

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