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by dabinat 39 days ago
> a single person has been granted early access through the expanded access, aka “compassionate use” pathway, which is typically used to grant access to patients with a “serious or immediately life-threatening disease or condition” and who are not able to enroll in a clinical trial, often because they are too ill.

He may have medical conditions that have not been disclosed, but it does not seem like he is seriously ill or in a situation of imminent death, so this would appear to be an abuse of the system.

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It probably is, but I don't really see a major issue with it, it's just a drug after all.

Doctors abuse the system all the time for their own benefits [1], you think that if a family member has some issues, they won't prescribe him drugs illegally without consult? Of course they would.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12875-022-01631-z

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You wouldn't give leftover prescription drugs to a friend asking? I did, they did, seems common.