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They will find some way to prevent people from acquiring it and promote some other in-patent drug.

toomuchtodo 3y ago
Lots of ways around jurisdictional regs. Consider how many people live near a national border, or have access to the postal service. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2018-11-01/utah-insurance-company-is-paying-people-to-pick-up-their-prescriptions-in-mexico https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2018-11-01/... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7523158/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7523158/ https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn-partner/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/12/14/states-challenge-biden-administration-drug-imports-canada/10890258002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/12/14/states... Also, I expect CRISPR or gene therapy to be the long game wrt this and updating the body's GLP-1 regulation, versus maintenance doses of a pharma product. This is a shim. https://benmay.uchicago.edu/crispr-gene-therapy https://benmay.uchicago.edu/crispr-gene-therapy https://www.creative-biogene.com/crispr-cas9/solution/glp1r-gene-editing.html https://www.creative-biogene.com/crispr-cas9/solution/glp1r-...
HDThoreaun 3y ago
It is not possible to stop people from getting mail order pills from China. Especially with the abortion restrictions the market already is pretty large and it will be easy for them to throw these drugs in too.
- trasz4 3y ago
  We used to believe it was not possible to stop people from getting their funny movie clips from China.
  - pseudo0 3y ago
    The solution to that was a $10 per month subscription via Netflix and clips for free on YouTube. Meanwhile Ozempic is around $1,000 for a month's supply. That is a margin on par with illegal hard drugs, which already have a smuggling supply chain from China to North America (eg. Fentanyl and variants).

Lots of ways around jurisdictional regs. Consider how many people live near a national border, or have access to the postal service. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2018-11-01/utah-insurance-company-is-paying-people-to-pick-up-their-prescriptions-in-mexico https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2018-11-01/... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7523158/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7523158/ https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn-partner/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/12/14/states-challenge-biden-administration-drug-imports-canada/10890258002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/12/14/states... Also, I expect CRISPR or gene therapy to be the long game wrt this and updating the body's GLP-1 regulation, versus maintenance doses of a pharma product. This is a shim. https://benmay.uchicago.edu/crispr-gene-therapy https://benmay.uchicago.edu/crispr-gene-therapy https://www.creative-biogene.com/crispr-cas9/solution/glp1r-gene-editing.html https://www.creative-biogene.com/crispr-cas9/solution/glp1r-...

HDThoreaun 3y ago

It is not possible to stop people from getting mail order pills from China. Especially with the abortion restrictions the market already is pretty large and it will be easy for them to throw these drugs in too.

trasz4 3y ago
We used to believe it was not possible to stop people from getting their funny movie clips from China.
- pseudo0 3y ago
  The solution to that was a $10 per month subscription via Netflix and clips for free on YouTube. Meanwhile Ozempic is around $1,000 for a month's supply. That is a margin on par with illegal hard drugs, which already have a smuggling supply chain from China to North America (eg. Fentanyl and variants).