I seriously would have a read a whole book just about two fifteen year old best friends/runaways running a store with cool platform shoes: thivaia on the best thing about Go Ask Alice ... what kitten kaboodle calls "aspirational shopkeeping goals."
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Mecran01 posted The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine? "because I wanted to see what shape the resistance would take ..."
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There are many reasons, but the primary one is that the massive series of mergers and buyouts in the pharmaceutical industry over the past ten years has meant that companies have consolidated their manufacturing facilities. Where in the past you might have had six or seven companies manufacturing a certain drug in eight or ten factories around the country, you now have one or two companies making it at two or three sites. If one of those sites goes down do to equipment problems or regulatory shutdown for improper safety standards (that's what happened to Novartis -- they got hydrocodone in their Excedrin bottles, allegedly), that means the other sites (if any) can't keep up with the increased demand.
RockSteady explains why we're seeing more and more prescription drug shortages lately, and why it's a big problem.
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