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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Placebo Affect is alive and well.  Funny how many people get hooked on Generic Vs Brand.

Even though ALZA's patent doesn't expire until 2018, due to a legal settlement, Watson Laboratories is allowed to sell an "authorized generic" version of Concerta.
 
This means that ALZA supplies Watson with brand-name Concerta tablets, which Watson packages and sells as a generic drug. Therefore, this generic version is exactly like the brand-name drug in every way, other than it being sold as a generic.

PLACEBO EFFECT.  You can spend your money as you wish.[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]In my 17 years of experience of being a certified pharmacy tech, I have found many people's "reactions" to the new generic is totally psychosomatic. [/quote]

With all due respect, I think some of the contributors in this thread would do themselves and the readers of this forum a service by reviewing the definitions of such terms as "placebo" and "psychosomatic" (and sorry, using capital letters does not change the definition).

Both terms would imply that the subject, in this context, has knowledge that there has been a change in medication. In the examples where a parent is administering the medication to a child, it is not clear that the child has any knowledge that there has been a change, and the previous post provides at least one example where the child had no knowledge of the change at all.

It's also worth pointing out some very basic business facts .. it does not cost less to make the same product with a different process, it costs more. That is, unless some efficiency is achieved (either in the manufacturing process, ingredients, or packaging/marketing of the product). Outside of the packaging and/or marketing of the product .... if the generic costs less, its not the same. [/quote]

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