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by hereme888 1630 days ago
It all sounded nice and good until I read the part about the microlab using spare bicycle tubing, and wanting drug dealers to cut heroin with PrEP meds...what can possibly go wrong with cutting everh dose of heroin with an HIV drug made through bicycle plastic tubing?
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jbirer 1630 days ago
Not to mention that PrEP is not made to be injected, blood clots and other issues can appear. These natural medicine people are dangerous.
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waterhouse 1630 days ago
Your information may be out of date. Wiki[1] says "In December 2021, the FDA approved Apretude, which is an injectable form of PrEP", and Apretude seems to be a brand name for cabotegravir, which is the chemical named in the OP. (The capital letters in PrEP make me think it's a specific drug, but apparently people use it to mean several different drugs with similar purposes.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-exposure_prophylaxis

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jbirer 1629 days ago
PrEP is a generic term for a medication that you take before the act, yeah. I was mostly refering to Truvada here which is the one that gets most passed around.
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waterhouse 1630 days ago
And how does the risk of that compare against:

  - the risks from whatever else the heroin is cut with (fentanyl?)
  - the risk of getting HIV
  - the risks of taking heroin in the first place
I suspect that what they're doing is a net improvement.
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Nasrudith 1630 days ago
The others aren't crimes against humanity unlike willful and deliberate human experimentation on unwitting and unconsenting human subjects.
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waterhouse 1630 days ago
Er... Is the anti-HIV stuff human experimentation? Are these guys collecting data? Seems like they're taking a drug that's known to help (incidentally it got FDA-approved in December 2021, based on trials whose results were announced in November 2020; I'm sure the FDA had excellent reasons for that delay) and sticking it where they think it'll help those who take it. This is compared to drug dealers who take a drug known to be harmful (fentanyl) and stick it where they think it'll substitute for more expensive ingredients and will keep the customers coming.

Are you really saying that the former is a crime against humanity and the latter isn't?

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darkerside 1630 days ago
Yeah, that tubing sounds like it could be pretty bad for your health
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