In May of 2001 the Food and Drug Administration approved a low dose birth control called Yaz or Yasmin. It was sold and marketed as an alternative to typical birth control compounds because it contained Drospirenone as its primary ingredient. As it turned out, Yasmin was everything a birth control medication should be, it was in fact 99% effective in preventing pregnancy. However, like many ‘approved’ drugs, certain significant adverse side effects began to show up in the pop