Compounding pharmacies are allowed to make a medication that’s essentially a copy of a commercially available drug if its active ingredients are listed on the FDA’s drug shortage list.
Anna Wysock’s “aha” moment arrived in an Ohio amusement park, as she got ready to ride a roller coaster with her 7-year-old son: The safety bar across her lap would only click into place once. The attendant told her it had to click twice, or she couldn’t ride. She was mortified.
“I had to do the walk of shame and get off the roller coaster and let my 7-year-old ride it with his cousin,” Wysock, an elementary school teacher and married mother of two, said of the 2022 incident. “I thought, ‘Anna, you’ve got to get yourself together.’”
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