Unexpected manufacturing problems, demand spikes, and tightened ingredient supply lines have all contributed to the shortages, which have subsequently caused treatment delays, medication switches and other hassles for doctors and patients.
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Could we just outsource all of our medications onto China?
ReplyDeleteSeems to be a tactically sound procedure.. maybe let them control our military..and energy..and..
We are about to be so fucked!
about to be?
DeleteOne thing I inherited from my dad was T2 diabetes. Nothing was working to lower my blood sugar numbers, until the hit combo of Monjouro and Synjardy. That combination has worked wonders for me. Here's the problem, the injectable Monjourno makes you lose weight like crazy. Docs are starting to prescribe it off label for weight loss. Folks are spending the $1500/month for it. We've already seen a few blips in the supply.
ReplyDeleteOnce the FDA clears it to write for weight loss, and the insurance companies cover it, I'll bet it becomes impossible to find thru normal channels.
Solution: Switch to the one pill covers all Fentynal. There's no shortage of that at all.
ReplyDeleteFive year fix. We have the know-how but lack the infrastructure. Not one company wants to look that far into the future for production capacity. They are barely willing to look that far for R&D.
ReplyDeleteWould you?
DeleteIn a climate of incompetency in govt; instability in domestic and foreign policy; exorbitant energy costs; intentional decay of infrastructure; burdensome tax code, de rigueur broken promises; bank insolvency; plunging dollar; wage instability; decreasing skilled labor pool; political pressures from labor unions, why would a corporation return to the U.S.?
Some clear solutions come to mind. Let's start with more generic and less name brand drugs. The whole "we need this money to fund research" line is getting harder to believe by the day, given the record profits of giant pharmaceutical companies. And then there's the whole consolidation of manufacturing thing that happened over the past decade or two. Manufacturing problems caused by single points of failure? Gee, how could anybody have ever seen this coming?
ReplyDeleteMy brother is taking some kind of injection for weight loss. It costs several hundred dollars a month but it's 100% covered by insurance where he works. Between that and him starting to seriously work out again, he's lost over 20 pounds in 8 weeks. It's a drug for diabetics (not ozempic, some other one I can't remember the name of) but his doctor prescribed it to him for weight loss, because she felt he really needed it. It's not the "intended" use but as far as I'm concerned anything short of tapeworms and methamphetamines that can deal with the out of control obesity epidemic sweeping the western world is fine with me. Fuck the fat acceptance crowd.
I'm in Canada, btw. Drugs are more subsidized and regulated here.
my child drank red bull in place of adderall--idiosyncratic reaction. maybe try it--lots cheaper
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