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If so, it sounds like there's even less reason for the FDA to be involved if the DEA is already catching the truly illicit stuff. The issue the article takes is
by muttled 4y ago
If so, it sounds like there's even less reason for the FDA to be involved if the DEA is already catching the truly illicit stuff. The issue the article takes is that the FDA keeps asking for more and more money to inspect packages for opioids/fentanyl, but is using that money to mostly destroy legitimate medicine. If they had to say what they were actually doing with the money, they might not get it.
- runnerup 4y agoFDA seizing drugs that aren't in the NIDA-5 (cocaine/opiates/amphetamines/etc) will get a lot more contentious when the TikTok generation figures out how to skirt domestic shortages of tirzepatide and semaglutide by getting it from non-FDA approved facilities overseas. However, asthma/cancer/ED/heart medications are probably for now more what the critical voting blocks care about.
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- kridsdale1 4y agoThat is just bananas
- at_a_remove 4y agoI don't think that the overseas pharmacies have locked on to tirzepatide and such as of yet.
- runnerup 4y agoI'm seeing them very available in "bulk" out of China. Not much "pseudo-branded" out of India/elsewhere yet. Specifically looking at: - Semaglutide: $10/month - Tirzepatide: $60/month - Liraglutide: $87/month For unbranded/unlabeled Chinese "bulk" material, but packaged into consumer-ready vials, 2mg-10mg per vial. BYO QA/QC though, as with all non-FDA drugs. That's the huge catch, and it sucks for consumers. Testing just for active ingredient is >$100 and takes about a month. Testing for proper buffering agents, harmful contaminants, microbial contamination, etc is essentially unavailable at all.
- keneda7 4y agoIf you have a valid rx is it still illegal for you to order the overseas drugs?
- runnerup 4y agoDefault answer for Americans: “Yes it is still illegal, technically it’s smuggling, assuming it’s not a controlled substance.” Nuanced answer: There is a loophole where Americans can get medicine from overseas if it is the exact same drug/brand/dose as their prescription AND the imported drug was produced under FDA supervision and is labeled for sale in the USA. This used to be a situation where you could get big discounts for the same brand name drug but now they have different brand names for different price markets and they don’t distribute the FDA drugs to India/Turkey/etc or do so at the same wholesale price; so this loophole doesn’t help much. You might find 10-20% discount off domestic retail price but not 80-90%.
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- amalcon 4y agoNot a lawyer, but AFAIK if one has a valid rx for e.g. adderall, it's still illegal to make it (or even to buy it from a friend who got it via their own valid rx). I'd expect the situation to be similar.
- yamtaddle 4y agoYes, otherwise everyone with a prescription that costs more than a few dollars a month would be ordering from these services and US pharmacies & drug-makers would go out of business (or be forced to cut prices dramatically) [EDIT] As pointed out by another poster, unless the drugs are valid for import to the US and such and it's all done above-board—obviously, the US doesn't manufacture all its own drugs. But those aren't the cheap options.
- at_a_remove 4y agoI'm curious, where are you seeing these? I'm hardly an expert in finding this sort of thing.