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Originally Posted by fuzyfuzer
what your doing is self medicating if you are trying to get controled drugs without a perscription. how do you know that that is the best drug for you, maybe you read online one perspective of what you are suposed to take that doesn't mean it's best. also you idea of automaticly producing an over the counter generic completely earases the drug companies profits. whats the incentive to create new drugs with that solution we completely destroy our industry.
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Who said I was trying to get drugs without a perscription? You're making large assumptions. With the meds I'm on, they're duly perscribed by a licensed physician, they are filled by registered pharmacists, et cetera. Here's the thing. I'm going to be on the drugs perscribed by my doctors probably for the rest of my life. Yet every two months, I have to go back to my physician to get the perscription renewed. I go into his office, we talk for two minutes, he writes the script, and I go about my business while my insurance is billed for $180. The visits are completely unnecessary, but serve to drive up costs. If I could simply continue to refill my perscription, as I will undoubtedly continue to do in perpetuity, there would be significant cost savings.
Regarding profitability, do you know who lobbied hardest for prilosec to be reduced to OTC status? The MANUFACTURERS. Why? Economies of scale. They make more money selling them OTC for less money than they could EVER hope to make selling it by perscription for more money. If the manufacturers hadn't lobbied and lobbied HARD to get it classified as OTC, it'd still be rx only, and they'd be making less money.
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jst because illegal drugs are easy for you to get dosen't mean that it's right. and if all these drugs are legalized he companies who make them immediatly become responsable for any moron that doesn't follow the rules that is the state of our legal system. this again would destroy the industry and obviously neither of us want that.
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How do you figure that? I'm a trial lawyer by trade. The manufacturers of Tylenol weren't sued out of existence because of toxicity that results from overdoses of it, were they? I suggest that you have a skewed view of the legal system, possibly because your legal training primarily involved watching reruns of "Law & Order".