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Drugs do tend to have alternate uses, but yeah it's weird how they leave attempts to find these out until the last knockings of their copyright.

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Tsk tsk, only taxable drugs are good for you.

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Honestly I think the Colombian and Mexican drug cartels have more ethics than these motherfuckers.

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And don't even think about using the US justice system to defend your patents and much less ask us to invade a country you're having a problem with. Go fuck yourself, Pfizer. Now get the fuck out of my country and take your shit with you. We don't fucking want you here.

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I've been lucky enough that any immediate family have all gone quickly at the end - well, my dad got steadily worse over decades, then the last few years, but still had quality of life and had a do-not-resuscitate in place.Quality of life, that's the key phrase here.Keeping a skeleton alive is no fun for anyone.

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Who cares? Good for him.

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Please, all Wonkadoodles, have end of life discussions with all of your family members.

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I heard that in California, you can check out but you can never leave.

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New York took them to court and got an injunction. Some dickweed in PA initially tossed the suit but the Second Distrinct Court ruled to force Actavis to keep the original Namenda on the market so the generics could get out. A couple of the generics have made it to market and the price difference is enormous. Actavis's latest plan is to combine Namenda with another Alzheimer's drug, donepezil, which is already available as a generic to make another branded, super expensive drug which doctors will prescribe because they have the knowledge of drug pricing of Lego brick. And patients fall for it because "It's not generic, so it must better, and it's a different drug because it's got other stuff in it." The only possible benefit I can see is reducing the patient's pill burden but that's negated by the reduced cost of the generics IMO.

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I didn't figure I could claim an original idea even though I'm not a gamer and have never heard of that title. I found a similar idea in a book I'm reading: "Fire With Fire" by Charles E. Gannon; 2013 by Baen Books; ISBN: 978-1-4516-3883 -7. An excellent hard-science/space-opera sci-fi read if you're interested.

It's an idea that makes sense in a twisted way, since the political mess has already deteriorated to the point that very large corporations are supposedly considered "individuals", now, for tax-dodging and dark money donation purposes.

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No, really to it's a completely different dose and frequency, not for standard hypertension but pulmonary hypertension which is quite debilitating and has a high mortality.

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Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude: at least it's an ethos.

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Crisco: Not even ONCE!

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What amazes me is he not only made that robbery story up from whole cloth, it wasn't even a good story. It made him look like a tremendous asshole. Why lie, if it doesn't improve your situation?

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And also, keeping wildlife, than ain't legal.

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i'm a grower too, in Oregon

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