Posted on 04/16/2024 3:06:49 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The market for oral contraception is being turned upside-down as Perrigo has begun shipping Opill to thousands of retail stores nationwide, to be sold as the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the U.S.
The FDA approved Opill July 2023 as an OTC birth control option. Perrigo did not publicly release sales projections for the product, and The Motley Fool reported last July that the company is “quite unlikely” to generate $110 million per quarter—the value needed to “make a significant dent” in overall company revenues.
The current U.S. prescription birth control pill market is likely worth about $3 billion a year, Fady Boctor, president and CEO of men’s health company Petros Pharmaceuticals, estimated based on data showing that pills represent 37% of the $8 billion contraceptive market at large in the country.
For now it remains unclear how much money the new OTC option will siphon away from prescription contraceptives. “It will be interesting to see how does this over-the-counter access increase utilization” of oral contraception, Boctor told BioSpace.
Opill is a daily tablet that contains 0.075 mg of norgestrel, a synthetic version of progesterone whose efficacy as a contraceptive was first established with the FDA’s 1973 approval of Pfizer’s Ovrette. Clinical trials showed Opill to be 98% effective at preventing pregnancy when taken as directed.
According to Statista, in 2022, 15% of U.S. adults who used contraception in the previous month chose oral birth control. But to this point, it has not been available without a prescription.
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What the heck does that sentence mean?
By adults, are they only asking females, or are they asking males if they took birth control pills?
If they are asking men if their female partner is on the pill, they are going to get really poor data.
I noticed that too. I think the writer was trying to avoid the ridiculousness of “potentially pregnant people” and still abide by the laws of woke linguistics. *eyeroll*
If you look at the Statista data, it does not appear that they are breaking it down by gender. Interestingly, they place diaphragm and condom in the same cohort.
That tells me they are asking men if they take birth control pills, and that would indicate that up to 30 percent of women, who are sexually active, and using methods of contraception, take the pill.
I would think it would be a larger percentage.
“I would think it would be a larger percentage.”
Yeah, at colleges, they hand birth control pills out like candy, and high school girls can easily get a script for birth control pills and of course the birth control pills for teenage girls are only prescribed to help regulate their periods.
But...ABORTION!!!!
This is a shocking video!!
BIG PHARMA
EVERYTHING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF PHARMACEUTICALS
https://rumble.com/v4om9a2-big-pharma.html?mref=22lbp&mrefc=2
For what it's worth, here's the company's FAQ page:
Birth control option - killing your fetus. We sink lower and lower. Yikes!
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