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> But Revlimid is also, I soon learned, extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each daily pill. (Although, I later discovered, a capsule costs jus
by A_D_E_P_T 1y ago
> But Revlimid is also, I soon learned, extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each daily pill. (Although, I later discovered, a capsule costs just 25 cents to make.)
That daily pill is 25mg. You can buy 5g of Revlimid's active ingredient for $352.
> https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/aldrich/901558 https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/aldrich/901558
200 doses at less than $2/ea.
If you want to get adventurous, you can probably buy 1kg from China or India for $900. Find a university or commercial lab with HPLC and LC/MS and run your own QC for a few hundred bucks. Store the powder in a vacuum-sealed container in a refrigerator. You're set for life.
I've done this sort of thing before, and a lot of people are doing it for GLP agonist drugs. (To say nothing of sports doping, nootropics, etc.)
Sometimes you've gotta take matters into your own hands.
- collingreen 1y agoWe agree that, while it's nice this is an OPTION, it's a crazy state of affairs, right? I'm tired of the phrase "free market" since it isn't really either of those words.
- missedthecue 1y agoNo one would take the drug for this condition unless the company spent years and a billion dollars proving to the FDA that it was sufficiently safe and effective. It's hard for me to get my mind around the controversy here.