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A comment on Congressman calls for probe into Valeant’s pricing of lead poisoning drug. Parent comment

Re:Congressman calls for probe into Valeant’s pricing of lea... by Moshe_Silnorin on Sunday October 23, 2016 @10:38AM (#12773741)
The nootropics community often have kilograms of very complex novel compounds synthesized in one off batches for far far less than the list price of this drug. Perhaps this could be synthesized on demand.
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Re:Congressman calls for probe into Valeant’s pricing of lea... by barkbro on Sunday October 23, 2016 @11:56AM (#12774016)
Keep in mind that the requirements for an IV drug are much higher than those of nootropic enthusiasts. All compontents have to be within a narrow concentration range (consistently, across batches) and very low levels of byproducts are allowed.

I'm not saying it's as expensive as Valeant claims, but it might be more expensive than you think.

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Re:Congressman calls for probe into Valeant’s pricing of lea... by refurb on Sunday October 23, 2016 @02:31PM (#12774732)
Production of bulk chemicals is way cheaper than production of pharmaceutical grade drugs. GMP (good manufacturing processes) is a collection of a shit-ton of regulations around testing starting materials, storage requirements, analytical analysis, impurity limits, shelf life, etc).
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Re:Congressman calls for probe into Valeant’s pricing of lea... by aab0 on Sunday October 23, 2016 @12:11PM (#12774086)
More realistically: just import it from the rest of the world.
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