Comment by A_D_E_P_T
1 year ago
> But Revlimid is also, I soon learned, extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each daily pill. (Although, I later discovered, a capsule costs just 25 cents to make.)
That daily pill is 25mg. You can buy 5g of Revlimid's active ingredient for $352.
> https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/aldrich/901558
200 doses at less than $2/ea.
If you want to get adventurous, you can probably buy 1kg from China or India for $900. Find a university or commercial lab with HPLC and LC/MS and run your own QC for a few hundred bucks. Store the powder in a vacuum-sealed container in a refrigerator. You're set for life.
I've done this sort of thing before, and a lot of people are doing it for GLP agonist drugs. (To say nothing of sports doping, nootropics, etc.)
Sometimes you've gotta take matters into your own hands.
We agree that, while it's nice this is an OPTION, it's a crazy state of affairs, right? I'm tired of the phrase "free market" since it isn't really either of those words.
No one would take the drug for this condition unless the company spent years and a billion dollars proving to the FDA that it was sufficiently safe and effective. It's hard for me to get my mind around the controversy here.