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They will find some way to prevent people from acquiring it and promote some other in-patent drug.



Lots of ways around jurisdictional regs. Consider how many people live near a national border, or have access to the postal service.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2018-11-01/...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7523158/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/12/14/states...

Also, I expect CRISPR or gene therapy to be the long game wrt this and updating the body's GLP-1 regulation, versus maintenance doses of a pharma product. This is a shim.

https://benmay.uchicago.edu/crispr-gene-therapy

https://www.creative-biogene.com/crispr-cas9/solution/glp1r-...


It is not possible to stop people from getting mail order pills from China. Especially with the abortion restrictions the market already is pretty large and it will be easy for them to throw these drugs in too.


We used to believe it was not possible to stop people from getting their funny movie clips from China.


The solution to that was a $10 per month subscription via Netflix and clips for free on YouTube. Meanwhile Ozempic is around $1,000 for a month's supply. That is a margin on par with illegal hard drugs, which already have a smuggling supply chain from China to North America (eg. Fentanyl and variants).




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