| There is no difference in the therapeutic qualities between a generic medication and a brand name medication.
In order for a generic medication to be available on the market, it has to be approved by the FDA to be as safe and effective as the brand name drug.
The reason that a generic medication costs so much less is that brand name drug is because the brand name drug has a lot of development expenses to cover.
It usually takes 10-20 years for a drug to be approved for human use. The company that develops the med spent a lot of money researching and developing the drug. Therefore they have to sell the drug for a higher price to make up the millions of dollars that they spent developing that drug. |