TomG
Aug 1, 2004, 5:58 PM
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Re: [Georgia] Not sure the problem is just Mexican, but..
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My wife used locally purchased Serivent in Oaxaca (a different situation than a border town high volume place) in the last two months and felt that she was not getting the same effect as with the stuff from inside the USA. For sure her O2 was down 3-4% during this time. All this is hardly scientific proof of anything. The Serivent was name brand and in the company box, albeit a smaller number of doses per canister. There are enough variables in her circumstances to make her observations tenuous.
What do I think? You didn't ask, the FDA didn't ask, the drug companies didn't ask; but.... - The drug companies need the outrageous prices to pay for R&D (and bribettes to the doctors on cruises, etc).
- They most probably are piggybacking a lot of their much tooted R&D on federal government funded university research projects, hiring professors away from such projects (most surely graduate students), and it may be that some professors are involved in some of the companies in some capacities. I am suggesting that the federal government is supporting a lot of the R&D in the background, and then posturing as the inefficient big government fall guy.
- I don't think the drug companies are play a straight game; but whatever the game they play, they depend on predictable quality in their markets in order to justify being allowed to continue playing the the game by the rules they prefer to insure their profit expectations.
- Others would like to play the game, but can't get in - like drug producers in India. Some of these are quite good (Oxford & Cambridge trained PhD's). They have factories that subcontract to the American players to produce generics for the American market. They are inspected and meet the required standards. They can and do chemically deconstruct pricey new stuff and produce it. They can put those reconstructions on the world's street for 10% of the USA retail price. The copyright issues here are not my interest for this conversation.
- The margins and potential margins involved in the medical drug business are enough to be competitive with the illegal trafficking in cocaine and heroine, money counterfeiting, and human trafficking, I would guess.
- My wife says that there are warning out in the USA for people to deface drug bottles and containers in order to make counterfeiting less easy by cutting the supply of original containers.
- Given the amount of human energy that goes into organized crime, and with the profits in the drug area looking very attractive, I think counterfeiting is likely. The profits are potentially high, the product is light and compact, and the risk is way below anything in standard criminal areas. You just need more a more polished labor force (criminal).
- Remember the guy with the Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering in Jalapa who is selling pirated music CD's? Only a strong internal moral compass and lack of the entry opportunity is preventing him from being in this line of work.
- The 3rd world has some hard realities.
- Having compromised health puts one on the wrong end of the stick. This is not a good time to be weak.
- It's better to be strong!
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