Doctor John Campbell

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Are you saying that Ivermectin is not a pharmaceutical product?

No, but using it in a prophylactic manner beyond what its label claim is, is outside its pharmaceutically intended purpose so in that way it is being treated as an alternative treatment substance. There are currently practitioners using a wide variety of off-patent drugs in off-label applications to combat cancer which is not dislike the way ivermectin is being promoted in some quarters to (rightly or wrongly) combat COVID. In both cases the use of cheap alternatives to derive a desired result is denying pharmaceutical companies of potential income so is of course criticised by them and definitely not going to be viewed positively in the unlikely event that research is carried out on the efficacy of such substances in those applications.