Originally Posted by
stef
The drug is the same.
The formulation is different. No apple flavoring in the oral formulation for humans or the oral formulation for dogs, for example. Perfectly avoidable by using the injectable if apple is a dealbreaker. Lots of things vary between formulations and it only matters if you take it "wrong" if there is something that is not good to take through that route or it will not get in by the route. For example, not recommended to stick oral tablets in your eye. Using the paste formulation orally or the injectable is fine.
The drug is the same. There is no problem from the formulation.
The labeling is different. Different pictures, different species named, different warnings and information. All adapted to the target of sale or use. Standard deal. Labeling may not be relevant to the end user and may or may not work no matter how good it is. Multipacks of all sorts of things that have "not labelled for individual sale" all over them. So very bad, bad, bad if you break that if you're a seller on the wrong side of an regulator, but breaking the pack apart - something you must do to use it - is not something that affects the contents. I know of people who've put unwrapped suppositories up their butts. Not soft wrapped, bullet-shaped ones. Nope. Ones in stiff cards with four sharp corners and the bullet-shaped suppository still inside.
The drug is the same. There is no problem with the formulation. There is no problem with the labeling.
The regulation is different. Freely available in most of the US vs controlled by the medical cartel. Lots of other places the human-targeted oral formulation (perfectly fine to give to dogs and horses, btw) is OTC. This affects how you can get it and where you can get it and how much markup there is and who profits from the selling, but these are government problems, not drug problems.
The drug is the same. There is no problem with the formulation. There is no problem with the labeling. The regulations are shit in the US, but they are not a problem that matters once you get around obstructing rent-seekers.
The total amount in the package for sale is different. Taking the right amount from a paste syringe is equivalent to taking the right amount out of a bottle. Humans who can't figure out how much to give their horses (which come in sizes other than 1250 lb, you know) or can't figure out how much to give themselves or how much to use out of a bottle of pills are a problem, but those things have nothing whatsoever to do with the drug itself. There are ways around those problems, and the ways around them are not a drug problem, they're a helping-idiots-not-fuck-up problem. Why, back in the day, we'd group drugs in unit packaging with rubber bands at the VA hospital because the dregs of the nursing profession - the sort one tends to find at such places - couldn't be counted on to figure out the math of 500mg acetominophen x 2 to give a 1000 mg dose. Very sad.
The drug is the same. There is no problem with the formulation. There is no problem with the labeling. The regulations are shit in the US (and other places), but they are not a problem that matters once you get around obstructing rent-seekers. There is no special problem figuring out the dosing vs any other situation. You can rest easy, wal. Please try.