Like any medicine, it's something that is intended to be prescribed by doctors to be used under supervision, rather than just taken by people ad-hoc at a random dosage hoping for a miracle.
And as for cure rather than suppression - yes, according to that definition, no medicine that is intended to be taken indefinitely to manage a condition is a cure. But nevertheless, high blood pressure medicine, statins, anti-inflamatories, HIV antiretroviral therapy, and many other drugs have saved many millions of people from an early death. We should keep looking for one-off "cures" for all conditions, but let's not limit ourselves to them.
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Like any medicine, it's something that is intended to be prescribed by doctors to be used under supervision, rather than just taken by people ad-hoc at a random dosage hoping for a miracle.
And as for cure rather than suppression - yes, according to that definition, no medicine that is intended to be taken indefinitely to manage a condition is a cure. But nevertheless, high blood pressure medicine, statins, anti-inflamatories, HIV antiretroviral therapy, and many other drugs have saved many millions of people from an early death. We should keep looking for one-off "cures" for all conditions, but let's not limit ourselves to them.