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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses.
Laufer has become well known for handing out DIY pills and medicines at hacking conferences, which include, for example, courses of the abortion drug misoprostol that can be manufactured for 89 cents (normal cost: $160) and which has become increasingly difficult to obtain in some states following the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs. Daniel began that article with a description of Laufer “throwing thousands of dollars worth of homemade medicine into a packed audience at Hackers on Planet Earth, a biennial conference in New York City.” The MicrolabFour Thieves’ work has resonated with me since I learned about it from Daniel’s article, in part because I have seen firsthand how patents owned by Big Pharma and the American healthcare industrial complex hurt and kill people in their cold machinations.
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