jducoeur

That's entirely true, but my point in posting this was that life in colchicine-land was just fine, thenk-yew, without the trumped-up "concerns" in the blatantly spin-doctored press releases. Colcrys is colchicine, pure and simple, and now you get to spend about ten times as much for it as you did before. Yes, the approval process is expensive, but do you really suppose that entirely accounts for the price increase? No, it doesn't. It can't possibly. The price is what it is because it CAN BE. Yes, they were aided and abetted by an "initiative" at FDA to get grandfathered drugs through the Process (so expect a lot more of this crap in the near future). But the bottom line is that if you need colchicine, you now have to have to go to Colcrys to get it, and they get to charge whatever the hell they want. So they do. That's their motivation, not any concern for the public safety, which was not in danger and has not been improved one iota by this. And anyone who buys into their press releases probably still believes that cigarettes are good for asthma.