stop trying to make me depressed with 10 year old news.

If anyone needs this information you can still get naloxene for free through some pharmacies and doctor's offices in the USA. They ask you to fill out a questionnaire, but it doesn't cost anything. I acknowledge this is also likely a state by state thing and it isn't offered everywhere. Still worth asking, though!

In the USA you can arrest every CEO of every for profit company and still be sure that you did not accidentally arrest an innocent person

In Canada I can walk into any drugstore and get a free naloxone kit. I have no drug addicts in my family and I still have one because my parents kept grabbing one when they would pickup their prescriptions lol

Wtf is going on down there buddy?

people should have a right to life saving drugs. Our country was designed to protect the right to profit, but not the right to live.

We're in the bad place

Wasn't it Martin Shekreli or another asswipe said that it was a moral duty of pharma makers to charge as much as possible for medication?

Not a single Sackler in jail

B-Bu.. But Steam is loading a few percentages faster now because of competition from Epic Games Launcher..

There's no such thing as a "free market" in the USA. Like, just look at venture capital ventures: they blow a wad of cash, bloat out competition, ratchet up prices, and profit. The fact that it requires so much capital automatically dissolves most competition, not much of a free market. Also, we'd need to deregulate to have a free market because one thing that disbars competition is the hurdles to even enter the market due to regulations, but regulations are there...like safety regulations, which were written in blood and lawsuits.

It's the Free to Rip You Off Market.

I don't call this Capitalism so much as political demonizing of "the other" - get a few beers in 'em and then ask: "well, don't those junkies deserve to die anyway? I mean, aren't we all better off with them gone?" And they'll say yes, sometimes even when it's their own brother/sister or daughter/son or father/mother who is the addict, but they get strangely quiet when it's themselves.

...then Oracle acquired the companies that make fentanyl and naloxone.

Now that's how you socialize costs.

I appreciate the Stirner cameo

Survival Of The Fittest: It's what America is.

Pharma does this all the time. What's even worse is they will buy the nda/patent and trial it for a completely different application, refile and get a year of exclusivity as the first generic on the market. And the price will skyrocket.

I spent almost two decades working for Tycho, Covidien, Mallinckrodt, GSK/Haleon and several more. The only thing redeeming was the people at the bottom. The rest is just shit all the way up.

Product integration!

And this is why science is getting a bad name. I can kinda understand why there is scepticism on the field, especially vaccine. When explained why vaccine is not pure snakes oil, a retort could be "Oh yeah? Those times when pharmaceuticals did such and such..."

Ow. Wish I had some pain-killers to forget that.

Actually, I don't want to normalize drug abuse. If you find it necessary, it's always worth seeking help, and you have more friends than you think you do. Take action.

Was that true in 2017?

You can but a 2 pack of naloxone for about $50 now over the counter, less with insurance. And many health departments hand them out for free.

Very confusing to see this post receive support on an anarchist community.

if you are the sole supplier and suddenly people "need" your good you can charge almost whatever you want.