Generic Medicines
Are you the sort of person who insist on buying Diamond Crystal salt or Domino sugar, or are you perfectly happy to buy salt or sugar in a plain paper bag and carrying the change home in your pocket?
Salt is salt, just as acetaminophen is Tylenol and Diazepam is Valium. We’re talking about generic prescription and over-the-counter drugs, which are pharmaceuticals that have the same active ingredients, strength, and dosage form as brand-name counterparts. For a drug to be therapeutically equivalent, it must be chemically the same and must also have the same medical effect.
Salt is salt, just as acetaminophen is Tylenol and Diazepam is Valium. We’re talking about generic prescription and over-the-counter drugs, which are pharmaceuticals that have the same active ingredients, strength, and dosage form as brand-name counterparts. For a drug to be therapeutically equivalent, it must be chemically the same and must also have the same medical effect.
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