Compounding problems

Woman preparing prescription

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Regulating the line between a vital service and grey-market profiteering is a mess

‘Compounding pharmacies’ are a bit of an alternate universe in drug distribution. That’s quite a change from the way things were a hundred years ago, when compounding pharmacies were basically the only kind of pharmacy there was, but modern manufacturing practices changed all that.