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by cmendel 1847 days ago
Ha, no worries! I'd thought the same until I went off and got a degree in Chemistry.
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Fwiw, I have a degree in chemistry and it never occurred to me that generics would potentially have a different chiral mixture to the original.

Given that we know (like you point out) that different enantiomers can have very different effects, it seems particularly dangerous for generics to be marketed as alternatives to the branded drug when, in some cases, they really are not.