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		tyingq on Oct 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DIY recipes to make your own expensive pharma drug... Aside from being a bad idea there is no actual content describing how to synthesize anything. Any chemists about? Is it even plausible for the medications he's talking about, like Hep C treatments?

refurb on Oct 14, 2017 [–]

Non-chemists make illegal drugs all the time. That said, the syntheses tend to be one or two steps and pretty basic.

Could a random person do a 5 step synthesis using specialized reagents? No.

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