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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (www.404media.co)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Sharing because I found this very interesting.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has a DIY design for a home lab you can set up to reproduce expensive medication for dirt cheap, producing medication like that used to cure Hepatitis C, along with software they developed that can be used to create chemical compounds out of common household materials.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (2 children)

...well, this is a good way to shine the spotlight on a massive problem. I'd be pretty hesitant to take DIY meds unless it was life-critical and my only option (which... lots of don't have that option, and just die after hitting the health paygate...). The value here is its potential to slap some sense into the US and get our broken-as-fuck healthcare system caught up with the rest of the world so people don't need moonshine insulin or w/e in the first place.

That this conversation is even taking place is testament to how horrible our current system is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

What's broken is largely insurance setting prices.

I don't see this fixing it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My first thought when I saw the headline was "Can it help me pull this tooth without it hurting so badly?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Honestly.. is there a practical reason why something like lidocaine isn't available to the average consumer?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It is, eg lidocaine patches. It has to be injected to really do much. Not aware of any injectables that are over the counter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I have no idea. I've got some lidocaine viscous they gave me for the pain. I'm lucky enough to have medical, just not dental. But from experience, it helps temporarily numb the surface pain, but if it's in the root, or if you're pulling the tooth, it does not help.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Clove oil. Put a few drops on a cotton ball and put it against the tooth. Your whole mouth will go pretty numb but it will usually kill the pain for a while.

American healthcare sucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I've had relief for gum/tooth pain by just holding a whole clove on the affected area.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

it is, but you need to have some chemistry knowledge to be able to extract it from things like anal lube, and that's where I think this DIY project will shine