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> Maybe I’m missing something, but discussions on the cost of medicine never seem to question whether using prescription drugs is the right choice to begin with
by lkbm 8y ago
> Maybe I’m missing something, but discussions on the cost of medicine never seem to question whether using prescription drugs is the right choice to begin with.
Because it's pretty darn obvious that once you have Hep C, yes, prescription drugs are the right choice. No one's pumping Hep C drugs into people who don't have Hep C.
> Surely the solution to this epidemic is to address the underlying drug problems first?
I'd recommend addressing both problems at the same time. There's no reason we can only do one.
- noobiemcfoob 8y agoLimited people, time, and resources are why you can't do both at the same time. Developing one solution impedes the development of another
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- Anon84 8y ago> No one's pumping Hep C drugs into people who don't have Hep C However, that is what is being done with HIV drugs under the guise of PrEP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-exposure_prophylaxis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-exposure_prophylaxis So I wouldn't be so quick to rule it out, specially if Pharma companies see a way to profit out of it.
- fwip 8y ago> Under the guise of I thought y'all were all about prevention? Now you're acting like preventing acquisition of a lifetime disease is a bad thing.
- Anon84 8y agoPrevention is great, and I'm certainly a big fan of it... but by overexposing people to the drugs that are actually effective against HIV we're both helping the virus evolve around them and having to deal with whatever adverse side effects the drugs have on healthy patients.