From: hrubin@skew.stat.purdue.edu   
      
   On 2012-11-20, "pill popper" <"pill popper"> wrote:   
      
   >> One wonders if this extra attention to the safety of one part of the   
   >> alternative drug industry will shine a spotlight on other parts?   
      
      
   > "alternative drug industry?   
      
   > There is no such animal."   
      
   > Sometimes it is an animal, or part or extract of the critter thereof the   
   > industry produces.   
      
   > A drug is some substance used as an external application to affect some   
   > biological process in the body.   
      
   > The alternative medical establishment often includes same in their   
   > practices.   
      
   > Those who produce these drugs are properly called an industry.   
      
   > The compounding pharmicies often see themselves as a part of this industry   
   > by producing alternative drugs.   
      
   It used to be that most pharmacies compounded drugs for quite a   
   few situations.  Few of them do that now.  It used to be that one   
   OTC drug advertised that it was compunded, "like a doctor's   
   prescription".  This is not often the case now, but it was then.   
      
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