Actually, when I contacted Apple Pharma they said they can supply it. The price is rather steep ($45 for 30 tablets). I suspect they buy from someone else and just mark it up.
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This is only tangentially related to this thread, but worth knowing about. See this Veratasium video about drug polymorphisms, where they mention a problem that confounded the makers of the HIV drug retonavir a few decades back:
The Crystal That Could Destroy All Medicine
The problem they mention could potentially occur in many drugs we all depend on, without warning.
It makes one also wonder if something like that happens in human cells in a way that is detrimental to health and/or causes aspects of aging.
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I’ve heard of the drug issue but that is an interesting theory you bring up regarding human cells.
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Did a quick search on the topic:
What Kiriakou actually said.
A YouTube clip shows former CIA officer John Kiriakou telling Tucker Carlson that a DEA contact told him U.S. officials allowed Afghan heroin production because most of it flowed to Russia and Iran “by design.” This is the source of the statement you’re asking about. YouTube
However, this is Kiriakou’s recounting of a conversation, not a documented CIA policy.
What credible reporting shows.
Authoritative reporting from The Washington Post and NPR describes something very different:
• The CIA ran a covert program to weaken Afghanistan’s poppy crop, dropping genetically modified poppy seeds designed to reduce heroin potency.
This program ran roughly from 2004–2015.
• The U.S. government viewed Afghan opium as a strategic problem, because heroin profits funded the Taliban and undermined the Afghan government the U.S. was supporting.
These sources directly contradict the idea that the U.S. was trying to increase poppy production.
Does any evidence support the “hook Russia and Iran on heroin” theory?
No publicly available evidence supports this:
• No declassified documents
• No congressional testimony
• No investigative reporting
• No statements from other intelligence officials
The only known source for this claim is Kiriakou’s anecdote about what a DEA contact allegedly told him. That is not independently verified.
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I actually did watch an interview on a fringe web site a few years ago by some scientist who worked on the discovery of AIDS in the 80s and claimed that HIV didn’t turn into AIDS and that they’re two separate diseases and that is how you can explain why people who get HIV don’t die anymore. He sounded sincere and credible but I have no idea if it’s true. It’s probably not true.
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They don’t die anymore because of potent antiviral medication.
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Hey RapAdmin, did you find a reliable source ? You tested it ?
No, its not high on my priority list right now.