"How do we ensure our patient drops and loses ~80% of his pills and that he slices the absolute fuck out of his fingers in the process?"

They're locking my mental health goals behind a fidgety Saw trap built from scissors and miserliness.

I've had boxes where there were several single pills snipped from their blister packs rattling around in them. These pills in particular are tiny, like you can't even feel them in your mouth when you take them, but they expect me to be able to finesse one out of a single blister with at least 3 extremely sharp and piercing corners on it ๐Ÿ˜’

If you're a pharmacist and you do this, please go ahead and take the pills yourself, you clearly need 'em more than I do, ya sick fuck.

A picture of my hand holding small sections of medication blister pack, cut with scissors to make up the last handful of pills I'm prescribed, with each cut leaving razor-sharp corners and edges
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[โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

The expensive part is the outrageous costs of R+D that goes into drug discovery and trials, with the majority ending in failure. Not excusing the awful profiteering that goes into pharmaceuticals also, but the end product being cheap to produce isn't the only cost that companies incur.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago

    Sure, but the R&D is largely subsidized because it's a common good. Pharmaceutical companies generally take over when it's already a pretty safe bet... It could fall through during clinical trials, but they don't pay for the massive R&D they did traditionally. Sometimes they even just buy the patent

    There's overhead, but the vast majority is just profiteering

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