By James Giannecchini on 14 January 2013 Those who the Pharmacy
New Year New Life. The old adages are always current unless we are talking about equivalent drugs. In fact, the new year absolutely does not change the tendency of Italians not to trust generic medicines. Patients don't trust products other than those they are used to taking on a regular basis: Italians don't like change. Not even doctors happily prescribe equivalents, according to statistics. Even in the USA the causes of distrust are the same, but there the coverage of the market by generics reaches peaks around eighty percent, here we are still below twenty percent. Giorgio Foresti, president of Assogenerici, declared: "It is necessary to overcome the distrust of patients but above all of doctors, who must immediately prescribe the generic drug". A great opportunity was lost in this sense when the bill was being worked on to make the prescription of active ingredients compulsory: the entire revolutionary force quickly withdrew in the face of protests from Farmindustria which was forced to downsize its market and make several layoffs. Many have doubts about the quality of generic drugs, but studies and statements on the matter are often conflicting. Instead Giacomo Milillo of Fimmg pointed the finger at the lack of information that doctors receive regarding equivalent drugs: "We are still responsible for what happens to the patient, so if we are not fully informed about the drug, we prefer not to prescribe it". For now there does not seem to be the will to change definitively, we go by trial and error and keep the "branded" products in competition with the "equivalent" ones as if they were status symbols. Only the 17% of the Italians uses the equivalents, but is the figure destined to grow?
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