You aren't arguing with me, Daggar. You're arguing with the FDA. The FDA doesn't state where they are manufactured but that generics must be identical to brand names regarding active ingredients,  be identical in strength, dosage form, and route of administration. Many, many products sold in the U.S. are produced overseas now due to cheap labor cost but still must adhere to the U.S. governing agencies to be sold in the U.S. This is most true with the FDA. Also these manufactures don't have to just deal with the FDA's strictly enforced standards, if the drug is not exactly as advertised they would be targets for multitudes of lawsuits. As far as most generics being produces in India:
Two-thirds of the value of medicines produced globally is accounted for by firms with headquarters in just five countries - the USA, Japan, Germany, France and the UK. Production is also concentrated in a few key products and in a relatively small number of companies, which often have factories and offices in many countries.
But you know whatever floats your boat. I've had prescriptions to brand name Pfizer Xanax and I've had prescriptions for different generics and personally could not tell the difference. To some it's as Popster said, physiological. If someone truly believes a product is superior, then it will be superior in their minds.
Are generic drugs really the same quality as the name brands?
Peter OrszagPeter Orszag, Economist, Vice Chair at Citi & Columnist at BloombergView
The price for name brand drugs can often be more than twice as much as a generic version, yet they have the same active ingredient. A recent study by Matthew Gentzkow of the University of Chicago found that physicians and pharmacists tend to go for the generic versions, decisions that are presumably well-informed. This leads us to believe that generic drugs, generally, are of the same quality as name brands.
The British Medical Journal, however, published a report in 1981 that found that branding on drugs had an effect on headache relief - a placebo effect. Having conviction in a brand can increase the effect...with aspirin, anyway. Similar studies have found the same results for antihistamines and some blood-pressure medication.
Psychology is at play in many health-care settings.
If you've used Bayer aspirin since your parents gave it to you, and it costs five cents more, is it worth it? It might be, if you believe Bayer works better.
Two-thirds of the value of medicines produced globally is accounted for by firms with headquarters in just five countries - the USA, Japan, Germany, France and the UK. Production is also concentrated in a few key products and in a relatively small number of companies, which often have factories and offices in many countries.
But you know whatever floats your boat. I've had prescriptions to brand name Pfizer Xanax and I've had prescriptions for different generics and personally could not tell the difference. To some it's as Popster said, physiological. If someone truly believes a product is superior, then it will be superior in their minds.
Are generic drugs really the same quality as the name brands?
Peter OrszagPeter Orszag, Economist, Vice Chair at Citi & Columnist at BloombergView
The price for name brand drugs can often be more than twice as much as a generic version, yet they have the same active ingredient. A recent study by Matthew Gentzkow of the University of Chicago found that physicians and pharmacists tend to go for the generic versions, decisions that are presumably well-informed. This leads us to believe that generic drugs, generally, are of the same quality as name brands.
The British Medical Journal, however, published a report in 1981 that found that branding on drugs had an effect on headache relief - a placebo effect. Having conviction in a brand can increase the effect...with aspirin, anyway. Similar studies have found the same results for antihistamines and some blood-pressure medication.
Psychology is at play in many health-care settings.
If you've used Bayer aspirin since your parents gave it to you, and it costs five cents more, is it worth it? It might be, if you believe Bayer works better.