'Wild west of the drug industry': John Oliver takes on compounding pharmacies

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The Last Week Tonight host looks into the largely unregulated, and therefore potentially exploitable, industry of bespoke pharmacies in the US

John Oliver steered clear of America’s central political drama – a formal impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump – on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight in favor of a more niche, less explosive issue: compounding pharmacies. Like most of Oliver’s topics, compounding pharmacies – bespoke pharmacies which make their drugs on site, often in small batches – are a common feature of American life whose obscurity and lack of government regulation allow corruption to fester.

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John, cut it out. Pharmacies are more and more becoming operators for pill counting machines. It might as well be self service. Compounding pharmacies have extended the life of more than one of my pets and enhanced the ease of lower dosages for people.

If we don't know what healthy feels/looks like If we need to be told what & when to eat If we need to be advised how much exercise to do If we do things that go against our well-being If we can't take care of ourselves Do we have a mentalhealth crisis or are we the commodity?

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