My Rotary club bought "expired" tetracycline for pennies on the dollar. Sent it to San Salvador and saved thousands of lives after rebels destroyed water and sewage plants.
This is so obvious... If you double the expiration date of a medicine, you cut the profit of the companies by half (sort of, of course - if you don't need to discard an expired medicine, you won't need to buy a new box if needed at least not that often). The pharmaceutical industry is evil, profiting on people's life and death at their own will. See the HIV for example (or even cancer): instead of searching more effectively for an actual cure, they just prefer to let people live thethered to their "cocktails" (which aren't cheap) for life. Profit, of course, so they can "spend the money of the profit on new researches"... yeah, sure.
It's true the effectiveness of a drug may decrease over time, but much of the original potency still remains even a decade after the expiration date. Excluding nitroglycerin, insulin, and liquid antibiotics, most medications are as long-lasting as the ones tested by the military.
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It's true the effectiveness of a drug may decrease over time, but much of the original potency still remains even a decade after the expiration date. Excluding nitroglycerin, insulin, and liquid antibiotics, most medications are as long-lasting as the ones tested by the military.