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I am on the same exact medication. I live in Italy. My 90-day supply is 15 euro (5 euro per box), but the government covers most of it through the healthcare system, so I end up paying 3 euro (1 euro per box).

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And you could probably get it even cheaper if you ordered them from a pharmacy in India.

Except they'd probably get stopped by customs.

and might be counterfeit

Anyone who thinks the FDA should be abolished should read the Warning Letter of the Week and reconsider: http://chemjobber.blogspot.com/search/label/warning%20letter...

Our investigator documented that you have an employee food preparation area within your drug manufacturing area with no separation between open manufacturing equipment, cooking utensils, and personal-use items. The practices observed at your facility, which was observed open to the outdoors, increase the likelihood of your drug products becoming contaminated.

Eating in the lab is poor form, it goes against all the social norms a manufacturing chemist has imbibed during their training. Such poor discipline usually points to further trouble, and indeed there are deeper problems:

You provided no evidence that you have performed chemical and microbial testing on each batch you manufactured before making a batch disposition decision.

Aren't most people advocating for the removal of the DEA not the entire FDA?

Lets make it a middle ground, let the fda run its tests, but let people consume the meds they want. FDA charges patients for the benefit of their regulatory overwatch, while those that choose to risk it will find cheaper meds. Everyone happy!

And read the history of the Thalidomide disaster avoided in the USA by a FDA scientist Frances Oldham Kelsey

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