Sharing because I found this very interesting.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has a DIY design for a home lab you can set up to reproduce expensive medication for dirt cheap, producing medication like that used to cure Hepatitis C, along with software they developed that can be used to create chemical compounds out of common household materials.

  • Quereller@lemmy.oneEnglish
    151·
    2 months ago

    Man, I would be so worried about impurities and side reactions. A good example is the recalls of drugs because of nitrosamine contamination. If stuff like this already happens to the experts.

    And what is with the whole galenics side? How to make sure the absorption is about right…

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      If stuff like this already happens to the experts.

      Keep in mind that almost all drugs are made in India. There is a huge issue with corporate corruption as well as poverty wages that prevent workers from ever whistleblowing. It’s a disastrous combination. It’s frankly a miracle that things don’t go wrong more often.

      The corruption runs so deep that pharmaceutical factories keep exploding and wiping out whole towns every few years.

    • ArchRecord@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I would be at least a bit worried too, but unfortunately the only reason this exists is because corporations decided to wall off access to producing their drugs legally so they could continue to exploit vulnerable people for profit.

      For a lot of the people using this tech, it’s the only way they’ll get life saving medication, and without it, they’ll die. If that’s the kind of gamble they have to make, a possible risk of impurities or negative reactions is better than the considerably less desirable option of death.