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Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B by monetus on Thursday June 28, 2018 @04:10PM (#17420063)
It doesn't have to be fake to cause harm, at least for epilepsy. The filler in the pills can vary by manufacturer.
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Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B by pbarnes_1 on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:55PM (#17420809)
Yup. Insurance companies like to pretend all generics are the same, but they are not. Getting them to pay for the brand because all of a sudden your pharmacy switches generic brands is almost impossible.
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Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B by aflessner on Thursday June 28, 2018 @08:25PM (#17421531)
Can you explain what is different about certain generics?
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Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B by monetus on Thursday June 28, 2018 @10:48PM (#17422015)
Generics, all of them I'd intuit, seem to be manufactured with the same active ingredients but different 'filler' ingredients that are non-active.

Abruptly changing that filler could very well send an epileptic into a static seizure.

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