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Drug makers can’t make knockoff weight-loss drugs anymore—and they’re mad (arstechnica.com)
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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Some more discussion on this article over on !medicine@mander.xyz

See here: https://lemmy.ca/post/30650429

A few points brought up in the comments

  • The shortage isn't necessarily over, and an obvious downside is drug prices / abuse from the manufacturer
  • This mostly affects larger pharmacies that can do compounding (ex. CVS, Walmart) since smaller independent pharmacies usually don't have the means to do it. However, the specifics will vary depending on where you are.
  • A more reasonable concern is that the compounded drugs don't go through the same quality control. So while they should act the same and be safe, it's possible that some pharmacy company (see above) is cutting corners for profit.

My thoughts:

  • the US has a drug price problem
  • it's possible to get safe and quality controlled pharmaceuticals without restricting it to one company, especially if that company can't handle the demand

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I dont really endorse this blog, but this is an interesting post about the compounding pharmacy situation:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-compounding-loophole