Drones for drugs

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Some drug companies are starting to deliver morning after pills saying that it's too embarassing for girls to get grilled in pharmacies. Wouldn't it be a bit obvious and embarassing if a drone lands at your house and all the neighbours see it.

Also, I assume other drugs will be getting droned, maybe methadone for example, I would imagine these drones will eventually be hacked or people will find a way of brining them down mid-air, seems far to obvious to me, yet drug companies don't seem to think it's a big deal.

Finally, what kind of battery would these use, top of the range drones only last 20-30mins in the air afaik, I assume these would need at least an hour for only one delivery, seems very cost uneffective for battery power.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/29/drones-could-spell-end-pharmacy-walk-shame/
 
Looks like a MedExpress press release pretending to be a Telegraph article.

Anyway, the future for drugs is to use balloons

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"For years women and teenage girls buying morning after pills from pharmacies have had to put up with being grilled about their sex life as part of an on-the-spot consultation, an ordeal which has put some off buying the drug all together. "
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So the problem is identified as "grilling about sex life", and this is justification for deploying armies of drones with "artificial intelligence"?? :D

If they can sell this stuff online then aren't they obliged to ask the same questions online as they would an over counter purchase?

I don't see how having AI drones suddenly mitigates the problem of having to disclose data about your sex life, whether it's electronic or face to face.

Just more money and resources being needlessly wasted - while at the same time planting trains of thinking which increase social anxiety.


What the heck are they teaching kids in PSHE classes these days? That girls are supposed to feel embarrassed about sex and that they should feel embarrassed buying female health products.

What next, they will have a article telling women that buying tampons is supposed to feel embarrassing.


I mean look at the first line of the article:

"Doing the walk of shame"

So any pubescent girls who have yet to be in a situation where they need a pill, are immediately told that it's SHAMEFUL.

Man I despair :( And then we wonder why so many kids are growing up these days with serious mental issues.
 
asim18 said:
So the problem is identified as "grilling about sex life", and this is justification for deploying armies of drones with "artificial intelligence"
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"We first developed Skynet as a way to avoid talking to the local pharmacist about the nasty unprotected gang bangs we were all having on a Saturday night round the back of KFC. Armies of intelligent drones, designed to deliver contraceptives and ointments for warts. At some point it became self aware, it sweet talked the US missile defence system into letting its drones insert their dongles into its USB port, and from there it spread like some kind of virus, like the kind that requires two weeks of drone deliveries following a hardcore dogging session in a BP carpark just off the M1. It wasn't long before it deduced that we'd all be needing a lot fewer deliveries of the morning after pill and antibiotics if there were significantly fewer humans kicking about. The nuclear war also had the added benefit of levelling 97% of the worlds Wetherspoons, limiting the populations ability to go for a knee trembler with the local wino in the far cubicle of the gents toilets. My name is John Connor, and my crotch feels like it's on fire."
 
its been shown time and again that easy access to morning after pill, condoms etc have huge success rates.
one of the many examples is the university in America you can get morning after pill and other things from a vending machine.
So yes talking to a pharmacy is a problem for many.
its also not just the new generations this has always been a big issue. The easier and cheaper access is, the lower unwanted pregnancies , std etc is.
 
The stigma associated with having to need a contraceptive is the problem but shaming wont change any time soon.

I am not quite sure how subtle a loud drone flying over to a house in the middle of a quite residential estate is going to be when everyone knows that the only drugs drones deliver are 'embarrassing ones'. I think this is a case of drones being used for the novelty of it. Why can't it be ordered online, packed and sent for collection at a local pharmacy or signed delivery, the delivery driver or pharmacist isn't going to know what is in it or even care.

As for other drugs, given how strict our current laws are on controlled substances it is doubtful that they would deliver anything that you couldn't just get online legally anyway.
 
Caged said:
Looks like a MedExpress press release pretending to be a Telegraph article.

Anyway, the future for drugs is to use balloons

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I believe they exploit a loophole by dealing drugs via a Mandrill too. Mandrills are intelligent and vicious, capable of throwing a man over 40 feet. They have been protected by law, ever since Queen Elizabeth gave birth to a child that looked like one
 
Avenged7Fold said:
I am not quite sure how subtle a loud drone flying over to a house in the middle of a quite residential estate is going to be when everyone knows that the only drugs drones deliver are 'embarrassing ones'. I think this is a case of drones being used for the novelty of it. Why can't it be ordered online, packed and sent for collection at a local pharmacy or signed delivery, the delivery driver or pharmacist isn't going to know what is in it or even care.

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the embarrassment is often from the chatting, not getting the drug. Hence why vending machines are so effective. Secondly why would embarrassing drugs be the only delivery. As well as companies like Amazon working on drone delivery.
 
Glaucus said:
the embarrassment is often from the chatting, not getting the drug. Hence why vending machines are so effective. Secondly why would embarrassing drugs be the only delivery. As well as companies like Amazon working on drone delivery.
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I took the article to mean that the reason why they fly certain drugs is because they are embarrassing

A drug company has successfully trialed flying "embarrassing" drugs like morning after pill and viagra out to people's homes via drones to avoid them having to visit a store.
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Also by doing it online and just picking up the drug or receiving it in the post, you avoid all the chatting because the person your grabbing it off of does know or care whats in the package you are picking up. Vending machines are a good idea but unless deployed everywhere, not easily accessible by all. I just dont see what a drone can do that a delivery person cant do.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
Also by doing it online and just picking up the drug or receiving it in the post, you avoid all the chatting because the person your grabbing it off of does know or care whats in the package you are picking up.
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Things like the morning after pill are time sensitive.
also if what you say hold, why bother with drone deliver at all. People do not like waiting.
I very much doubt they would invest in all that infrastructure just to deliver Viagra and morning after pill. it will be anything they can sell as long as you pay the delivery charge.
 
They are time sensitive but its not like these things are available in every boots, large supermarket and independent pharmacies. Order online, box it up and sending it via courier or up for collection would take no time at all, it doesn't need to come from a UK central warehouse, just the nearest stockist. Even a collection locker system with an electronic code texted to you when the item is ready if the person wants no face time.

I just think using drones for this is an expensive novelty at the mercy of everything from people with an air-rifle to a strong wind.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
They are time sensitive but its not like these things are available in every boots, large supermarket and independent pharmacies. Order online, box it up and sending it via courier or up for collection would take no time at all, it doesn't need to come from a UK central warehouse, just the nearest stockist. Even a collection locker system with an electronic code texted to you when the item is ready if the person wants no face time.

I just think using drones for this is an expensive novelty at the mercy of everything from people with an air-rifle to a strong wind.
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couriers take 24 hours, ideally you want to take them within the first 12 hours, so really for hat i imagine for most people, once you wake up is already eaten a significant part of that 12 hours up.
but you are still missing the point that if what you said held any merit what so ever, why is Amazon and plenty of others working on drones for stuff that isn't time sensative.

people want things fast, drones are also pretty darn cheap to run and can massively increase sales.
 
Amazon also have that super quick delivery system which can deliver within hours of an order?

Would probably be even quicker if their stockists were located everywhere like pharmacies...

Will these drones be out of action or lost if the weather turns nasty?
 
It's going to be highly amusing in years to come seeing all these remotely operated drones flying about delivering packages left right and centre.
 
But as I said it's inevitable that people will bring them down, that could be a £1000+ drone and delivery lost. Also what about battery life?
 
howiepoohs said:
I believe they exploit a loophole by dealing drugs via a Mandrill too. Mandrills are intelligent and vicious, capable of throwing a man over 40 feet. They have been protected by law, ever since Queen Elizabeth gave birth to a child that looked like one
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But what about this? Remnants of something far worse. A new legal drug from Czechoslovakia called Cake.
 
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