My vet invoice (now totaling over C$3,000, which is why I’m going to court over this) shows a charge of C$22.50 (about US$20) for a prescription of four 0.4 mg doses of Metacam (a total of 1.6 mg of the active ingredient meloxicam). Let’s do some simple math: US$20 divided by 0.0016 grams = US$12,500 per gram. By comparison, the black-market street price of heroin and cocaine is US$130/gram (adjusted for purity). My vet sells Metacam for one hundred times the black-market price of cocaine.

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