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Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by Someone1234 on Friday October 11, 2024 @04:44PM (#41813541)
"hims" is selling Compound Pharmacy drugs, which will be made illegal soon. Soon your options will be $1000-1500/month from the two big drug companies.

They're meant to have a vial-needle version, but it is $600/month and you can only do it for up to 5-months and a low max dose. So it isn't a real program, but rather a way to avoid critique from legislators.

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Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by _heimdall on Saturday October 12, 2024 @08:30AM (#41818597)
Why are they making it illegal? Is there an issue with the compound, or is it an issue if lobbyists protecting the more profitable drug?
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Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by wcfields on Saturday October 12, 2024 @12:00PM (#41820064)
It’s “legal” because of the lack of supply in critical medications so the FDA gives a variance to allow compound pharmacies to produce/sell critical medications until supply issues are resolved.
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Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? by EasyMark on Saturday October 12, 2024 @03:28PM (#41821733)
Seems to me there is a lack of supply for low cost semaglutide (and similar). That should be enough for the FDA to say “I’ll allow it”
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