No. 8184Anonymous 29th July 2018 Sunday 4:00 am8184make your own medicine / DIY drug production
At the pharmacy, a pair of single use Mylan epipens can cost over $600 and the company’s generic version costs $300 per pair, but an ongoing shortage means you probably can’t find them, even if you can afford them. In response, Four Thieves published the instructions for a DIY epipen online that can be made for $30 in off-the-shelf parts and reloaded for $3. Shkreli drove the price of the lifesaving HIV medicine Daraprim sells up to $750 per pill. So Four Thieves developed an open source portable chemistry lab that allows anyone to manufacture their own Daraprim for just 25 cents apiece.
Looks like a good way to poison yourself. Also, I do not believe that a mason jar converted to a chemical lab can be more efficient than a million pounds industrial chemical plant.
It probably is a good way to poison yourself. If you're taking a proprietary drug that's sold at a profit margin of 10,000%, your mason jar doesn't need to be particularly efficient to save you a small fortune.
IMO the real story here is the broken American healthcare system. It's like a less sexy Breaking Bad - people are cooking up drugs in their kitchen because they can't afford vital medicines.
Yes, I understand that. This is simply barbaric, like all healthcare in the USA. By the way, I do not think that those "makers" possess the skills or equipment to test their product. I would not take any of those "homemade medicines" unless in a life-or-death situation.
