Shire's exhaust--you can smell that smell

like Diet coke and waste water

Shire, back when many of you were just a little noob, cira 1999, was a pharmaceutical company that made two things:

Adderall - and odd Brompton cocktail of amphetamine(s) with an energetic dispersal that would climb the wall of a low-ball glass and dissolved like a turd in a public toilet. We know someone, probably in Texas, came up with this mixed idea.

phenobarbital - just phenobarbital, no gin, none of the other 2.500 barbitals* --

it's what they've got.

Now from a chemist standpoint you can tell that these people are, well, going for the easy stuff first (most drug companies have at least a dozen patents). Kind of scary for the turn of the century when foot fungus was being annihilated at an astonishing rate with drugs that would seem almost impossible; that someone let these people start making the "good stuff" like that. Even a clandestine chemist has pride than this.

And from a controlled substances standpoint they're going for the heroin next. The market prediction on Shire was that this company has about a 50% chance of going do in the next 2 years by way of the red dots.

BUT there is something affectionatable about a guy who makes your Adderall. And if it isn't a controlled substance, why take it?

Anyone ask Doc for the barbital? I was going to but all the sudden the price went up on the Adderall. I wound up in Europe 3 times. Now they don't make it anymore...

And I think about it now because every story has two sides. When you get to the end of it, just a piece of work.

I'd test the spansules that I have on hand for it. [google:Dille–Koppanyi reagent] All I have is 20 lbs of copper sulfate. No cobalt. I used to have cobalt chloride. No reason. Just like it for its fooling around.

Anyways, I've been wondering why these spanules are so weak. I walk out of the house the other day and I said "for sure someone has not drugged my apple juice". I just always assume that what is on the label is what is on the label. Could be anything.

If it works it works. If doesn't work I'd buy some anyways. But if it really truly has no pharmacological bearing on the physiological illness -- just the body which has an illness -- then it is probably inappropriate. Still if you operate as if there was nothing going on between you and so and so << you get burnt. Not that other *****.

The world is never as it seems because the truth is not before us. Don't do something stupid. Acquire the truth. And do something intelligent.

* Barbituates are the easiest chapter in pharmaceutical chemisty, if you have one barbituate, why not others? The half-life is everything in barbituates. Nothing lasts forever.

Teva retrieves amphetamines over impurity concerns

January 26, 2016

Hmm. Doesn't say what's in it.

I've been looking around at a lot of different drugs and peoples reactions to those drugs.

From the looks of it there could be phenobarbital in more than a dozen different drugs. Take for instance Keppra. Keppra is a "nootropic" racetam.

Racetams are practically 100% inert. No one should have a single reportable effect from a racetam.

Now I'm not saying that there isn't actual Levetiracetam in those tablets. I say it sounds like there is an addition of some barbiturate.

Anyone feel like the drugs have changed? Anyone happy that they did?