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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

they’re the same drug,

Of course they are, that's what it means, it's copied from the original.

There are also fakes that do not contain real medicine, those are not knockoffs, because they do NOT copy the medicine, only the packaging. The knockoffs are not decidedly fake because they actually work.