Hoping for a New Drug to Cure Your Terminal Illness? Fuggetaboutit, the FDA is gutted.

[TommyT139]

4. And another thing: "compounded versions"

First off, not every drug can be compounded. Even for standard injectibles, there are far fewer compounding pharmacies than there used to be.

More importantly, especially for new drugs, or new applications of existing medications, trashing the FDA also means trashing the structures that keep track of adverse events. Even for drugs that are successful in clinical trials, data is gathered after approval. That way you can find out if there are side effects that manifest further out than the duration of the clinical trials.

Then there's the fact that compounding pharmacies need to be regularly inspected to assure safety. I guess with everyone getting fired from the FDA, we'll just have to hope nothing goes wrong.

Because when things do go wrong...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Compounding_Center_meningitis_outbreak