My son takes Focalin XR for his ADHD. It works great, but today at the pharmacy I started thinking where do the chemical compounds in this come from? Like I’m sure my pharmacy buys from a compound pharmacy. But where does the compound pharmacy by the methyl and phenyl from?
And how are these extracted from their sources? Is it mined? Does it come from corn? Animals?
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Name brand Focalin is manufactured by Novartis. That’s who the pharmacy gets it from. The pharmacy isn’t going to be mixing drugs together to make other drugs, that would be too much risk for not doing it right, not to mention would break patents. All prescription drugs are made by drug companies and sold to pharmacies. As for how they are made, it varies by drug, but for the most part they are almost all synthesized through other drugs and substances to make the specific molecule structure they are aiming for.
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