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[@michaelgodwin6158]

I'm a pharmacy tech and while I moved to a work from home job and havent been in a pharmacy since the mid pandemic, we were very regularly unable to stock a large variety of normally very common medications. Many others were on extreme backorders where we maaaaaay get a few bottles in freight once in a blue moon, and they'd be dispensed and out in hours. I remember having to go on an extreme wild goose chase to track down a very basic medication used in transplant recipients so their body doesn't reject their donor organ... it took cold calling 10+ local pharmacies to find one that had the drug in stock. This is increasingly becoming the norm across the board.

[@m.s.9744]

This may be a calculated self-imposed supply shortage by pharmaceutical companies in order to drive up the price

[@Rasarel]

Exactly. In Amsterdam nobody goes to pharmacy anymore, everyone uses either mushrooms, or healing roots or cactus. 😊 So they are trying to distract people away from the truth 😅

[@ManuXit]

and to acquire even more political power via blackmailing. Politics should simply invalidate patents to retaliate, until they can

​@@Rasarel "Healing roots" for cancer...

[@Rasarel]

@ for cancer there is one that grows only in Brazil, everyone knows that.. you'll never hear about billionaires or western presidents getting cancer because the elite knows....

[@donnyjepp]

You're not wrong 👍

[@blue200W]

This is simply self-imposed by ridiculous levels of bureaucracy necessary in order to change anything about manufacturing process, including sources of input chemicals. With global supply chains being out of whack, this is the only logical outcome when approval takes 6-24 months for just a change in source of same chemical

[@orderneo]

The fact that this is news is absolutely shocking to my core. There have been many different drugs that I use that been short or way behind over the last two years I never knew that it was a global phenomenon. US based.

[@looseycanon]

Well, here in Czechia, it's a yearly event, kind of like tornadoes in tornado alley. There are two reasons for this really. 1) environmentalism forced out companies producing active ingredients for the drugs, because their production is rather messy affair. 2) we didn't require two or more production centers of the active ingredients.

[@drsou6316]

Even in morocco were going through the same problem, from analgesics to diabetes and many more, it’s making me feel very uncomfortable to do my job properly, and it’s difficult to tell a sick human that they’re medicine is not available

[@nbrown5907]

Type 2 diabetes is lifestyle and diet you kill them with the damn pills!

[@pearlyung]

Increasing illness worldwide. Thats all.

[@annehersey9895]

The US is exactly the same. I've been on a certain medication for YEARS and I haven't been able to get it in stock for 6 months! The pharmacist said it is because the medications are not profitable for the companies to make so they would rather make the meds that pay more. That figures!

[@johnlawrence8785]

Not only medicines. It is happening with many medical products. Competition has forced the closure of small local companies and population decline prevents them restarting when supply systems suffer a failure.

[@effexon]

"running out of drugs" sounds so funny when comparing how illegal drug use is record high in many places(big cities).

[@maksymkoval1754]

Price of activated charcoal or other sorbents in Ukraine is 10 times lower than in EU.

[@stefanoparlatore7141]

We went too far with globalisation

[@JaysSilence]

Love how he mentioned Cuba & Venezuela like the lack is normal there (which it is😂) Cuban here🇨🇺🇨🇺

[@DisneyJF]

Even the Proximity of Australia to Asia has not helps Australia. There many drugs that people have to wait for many weeks to get it.

[@herp_derpingson]

Thats bureaucracy to blame, not manufacturers.

[@gorilladisco9108]

6:55 The generic drugs production is the example of how in free market, even the monopoly dare not act monopolistic. The winner a.k.a. monopolist still has to keep their prices down for fear that competitors become interested to produce the drug. It is only in government supported monopoly that a monopoly becomes problem, because they won't have to fear competition, government already took care of those pesky competitors.

[@olskid9546]

Novo Nordisk is the most valuable company in Europe and it is pharma company lol. We got a huge production of drugs in Denmark.

[@Batucadax]

Specific profitable drugs. Not generics

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

Novo Nordisk is so valuable mainly cos of one drug that helps people lose weight. That's not what people grappling with actual health issues need. Even the people who need that drug for health reasons are struggling to get it, cos of the massive demand for it by the people who just want it to lose weight.

[@herp_derpingson]

3:54 The medicines manufactured primarily in Europe are to treat old age diseases. Since, the average age in Asia is far lower, there is insufficient domestic demand for mass production. When Asia, also faces aging population problem, the market share will shift.

[@Ynhockey]

The largest generic drug manufacturer, Teva, is Asian, but neither Indian nor Chinese. Teva has several factories in Europe, and obviously in Israel which is geographically close. Together with Sandoz and a couple of small generic producers, Europe should be able to cover its needs for generics without any subsidies.

[@memyself637]

We need to streamline our pharmaceutical regulatory regime to reduce lead times and costs. Using more automation would help by reducing labor costs and allowing less human error. There also needs to be tax incentives to make domestic drug manufacture more attractive to investors. And Medicare and Medicaid programs could generate a lot more demand by requiring American manufactured drugs where practical.

[@MrTryAnotherOne]

Europe gave it all away.

[@elkinjohn]

You want my opinion.? Free markets and Intellectual property reform...

[@ManuXit]

free markets are exactly the reason we have problems

[@bennyklabarpan7002]

@@ManuXit Yea. We we haven't had particularly free markets since the 1700s. Subsidies/tariffs/mercantilism and regulation to crush new businesses have completely destroyed any glimmer of a free market

[@rogerman65]

Ok, but what about supply and demand?

[@lauravergot9995]

If something needs subsidies it is not profitable. Period

[@snackplissken8192]

If first world countries even can compete with the third world for manufacturing, it is going to require relaxing regulations and other costly competitive benefits, which politicians are likely to balk at and the public may also find distasteful. Western societies sacrificed most of the redundancies in supply chains for decades to save money on labor, warehousing, and to take advantage of growing efficiency in shipping networks, and you can't undo all that overnight.

[@arslanrauf3641]

European commissioner looks like an AI model. completely expressionless

[@luisespinoza2929]

B!TSH plz, there is plenty of medicine in Venezuela, only thing is almost anybody has the money to buy it hahahah

[@BirdRaiserE]

You mean "nobody" and not "anybody" right? Or are you afraid that people are going to get to the medicine before you can?

[@Cless9886]

Lo mandan de Panamá a Venezuela. Dejen de robarnos las medicinas

[@andrewdunbar828]

In Tie Roll.

[@gorilladisco9108]

12:35 Ah yes, nimby. As long as it's not creating pollution in EU, let's close our eyes and sing kumbaya.

[@rickbhattacharya2334]

Evergreening of IP rights and IP abuse caused this issue. Any life saving drugs should not be allowed to be patented over 5 years.

[@Philfluffer]

I think this is a wake up call that European and North American countries need to bring drug production back home. We need to stop outsourcing all our drug needs to China and India.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

You didn't. These are mostly their own companies. They beat you at your own game, partly cos you didn't even want to do what they did. The west has pharma companies - they exclusively chase high value drugs still under patent. China and India make the generic drugs, which btw have saved millions the world over thanks to being cheap. Your companies don't even WANT to make generics. There's just a lot less money in them.

[@gallagjg]

Isreal has had the same problem for a year or so, getting worse.

[@gilberttello08]

👍👍👍

[@GerbenWulff]

I'm not sure all of these drugs are so critical. Nobody is going to die because they don't have paracetamol. The alternative for metformin is called diet and it's actually a money saver.

[@bicelisGeopolitics]

min 0:37 Venezuela, so sad! 1:46

[@grubbyga7601]

We in Europe have to start producing raw materials for medicines again. We should also make our own medicines again, even if it costs more. The dependence on China and Otherwise India will break our necks again and again. The environment also suffers when medicines are manufactured in countries such as China and India.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

This isn't cos of them. Your companies didn't even want to do what they did. The west has pharma companies - they exclusively chase high value drugs still under patent. China and India make the generic drugs, which btw have saved millions the world over thanks to being cheap. Your companies don't WANT to make generics cos there's just a lot less money in them.

[@TheHuntermj]

It is possible that this is a manufactured shortage due to Europe wanting to push forward mRNA treatments to replace the drugs.

[@effexon]

So winning in capitalism looks like this.... too efficient -> loose manufacturing -> now cant get medicine, food, or something else. Economy is very weird thing, as europeans can afford basic medicines easily.

[@dylreesYT]

I'm glad the other guy seems to be gone 😊

[@Robert-hy3vv]

This is what happens when you don't have a free market. Only 1-2 companies can produce each drug and they cant keep up with demand.

[@LickItTM]

? this is the result of a unregulated market. They competed and destroyed competition until only one or two were left. Then they stayed down with the price to keep other out of the marked. Now they had no money to modernize and meet safety standards resulting in lost, failed or contaminated production. There needs to be standards and laws to prevent monopolies and guarantee quality products.

[@nbrown5907]

Depending on the meds that could be a good thing. We take far too many pills in the west. People take pills when a change in lifestyle and eating habits would fix the problem.

[@marionkorte7801]

Agreed! Once asked a doctor what they do when a patient has self diagnosed off some TV commercials and asked for some drug. He replied well as medical professionals we usually just write them a script and get them out of our office so we don't have to sit and listen to them whine.

[@thegrandlord2914]

Daughter: mom!!! My baby is in fever and i don't have any medicine to buy! Mom: say no more! Mom: *preparing traditional medicine for baby fever consists of roasted rice, turmeric juice and candle nut paste. Mom: put this on your baby's head. The fever will gone tomorow

[@pontusvongeijer1240]

Drrrugz?

[@ommanomnom]

if only they legalised cannabis, taking pressure off people requiring a large number of pills for common chronic conditions

[@columbus2chris]

First to be here🎉

[@CrusterfunkShenanigans]

very constructive of you.

[@willemvanriet7160]

Heal yourself with keto diet and intermittent fasting, avoid processed foods, seed oils and overly carby foods and u won’t need any medicine

[@egg174]

Thanks Obama

[@i6power30]

China will save us... Once more

[@Check258]

i dont think this is accurate. i live in the usa. if anything we have too many drugs everywhere. i dont understand most of your videos but this channel seems pretty sketchy to me. whats the purpose of giving us this so called info? what are we supposed to do with it? it doesnt really help at all.

[@effexon]

drugs people dont need but some critical drugs like diabetes had shortages. But yeah, so called capitalism gives loads of stuff we dont need and still stuff we need is hard to get.

[@grahamohea2424]

I've worked in hospital pharmacies for 20 years. Drug shortages are really nothing new and something that we have had to manage long before I even started. The reasons for drug shortages are varied and complex. If anything, we tend to have it better over here because we pay more for medications, but things like industry consolidation, plants shutting down due to consolidation, recalls, supply chain issues, COVID making things worse, and even things like drug companies ceasing shipments into the US because they didn't want their drugs used in lethal executions, all contribute to an overall reduced supply. Some things in the video cited are not accurate to the US (the first company to create a genetic drug when the original patent expires actually gets a 6 month monopoly to allow them to recoup costs, was one that stood out), but overall, the content is mostly accurate. The only reason I could think of why they created this video was because of Josh's personal experience.