2012-07-31, 05:19 PM
Flonne Wrote:Some prescription drugs are thousands of dollars a bottle, and there's no way it costs anywhere near that much to actually make the stuff. I have a friend who has to pay over 13K a year on painkillers because of severe nerve damage in his leg/spine.
That's to pay for R&D, running trials on animals/humans, and for paying the fines when it's prescribed for off-label use. By the time it hits the shelves, a single drug can take millions of USD and years of trials.