Tennessee pharmacies sell potent ivermectin, led by doctor who's taken 'bucketloads'

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Source: ABC News

June 17, 2026, 5:38 AM


NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Four years ago, Tennessee became the first state to allow adults to buy the antiparasitic drug ivermectin from a pharmacy without first seeing a doctor. Pharmacies can use a pre-written, blanket prescription to sell to just about anyone who walks through their doors. The drug is now marketed and sold across the state in roadside shops and small-town strip malls with little oversight from health authorities.

Highway billboards advertise ivermectin as "Available Without a Prescription in Tennessee!" while dozens of pharmacies offer highly concentrated pills, sometimes at 10 or 20 times the potency of a standard tablet. Ivermectin is a Nobel Prize-winning, generally safe drug approved by the FDA for treating parasitic diseases in humans, which can generally be done with a single dose of three or four prescription-strength tablets. It is also used as a dewormer for horses and other livestock.

Its popularity surged during the coronavirus pandemic as unorthodox doctors and anti-vaccine activists promoted it as a treatment for COVID-19. Clinical trials have shown that ivermectin is not effective against COVID-19. Nonetheless, it has since become a symbol of resistance against the medical establishment among some conservatives and followers of the Make America Healthy Again movement, championed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Timothy Caulfield, a professor at the University of Alberta who studies health misinformation, said ivermectin became an "ideological flag" during the COVID-19 pandemic, opening the door for influencers to push the drug for other ailments to a "captured audience" even without proof it works for those conditions. "This is really about profit," Caulfield said in an interview with ABC News, which partnered with KFF Health News to report on ivermectin. "This is about political identity. This is about creating distrust in the existing biomedical community. This is about money."

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[DBoon]

1. Welcome to the 19th century

[Midnight Writer]

2. Friend of mine got COVID, refused to go to ER, took ivermectin instead.

He died on his living room couch.

MAGA, MAHA, it's all insanity that eats its own adherents.

[Maru Kitteh]

4. Coworker's roommate died much the same way, but after taking up ventilator space.

My coworker who is an RN waited until she was non-responsive and could no longer refuse the ambulance, which she had done twice already.

Too late to save her.

[hlthe2b]

3. Idiots. While reasonably safe at recommended doses for recommended uses, they are going to

promote parasitic resistance. Right now, we have no approved drugs for human cases of New World Screw Worm--which WILL happen if it is not controlled in cattle, pets and wildlife with the spread across the Mexican border. Right now, two drugs look promising for those human cases that are not caught sufficiently early to prevent larval migration beyond the skin and dermis. Based on anecdotes from South America, ivermectin is one. Lotilaner (already approved for use in canines as part of Elanco Credelio Quattro-- and being studied for prevention of Lyme Disease transmission from infected Ixodes ticks in humans) might be the other. Surgical removal of these larva can be incomplete and thus we have no approved drugs to use should we start seeing human cases to kill any migrating larva. And yes, they can migrate to the brain--something our brainless RFK Jr, should take note of, but won't.

So, these assholes are not only doing nothing to help themselves, but may well be putting many of us at risk in the future.

[erronis]

5. I'll bet that RFKJr and DumbassJT have cornered the market on ivermectin overdose meds.

Meanwhile the regime capos are getting their vaccines and other recommended medicines including mRNA, etc.

[NewEnglandAutumn]

9. There is no antidote

or established standard treatment. it will however improve the gene pool

[Buddyzbuddy]

6. Natural selection of the insanely stupid.

[ToxMarz]

7. Can it kill algae?

[Figarosmom]

8. You know, I just don't care anymore what this idiots do

To themselves or their families. The kids grow up to be just like them in most cases. I'm just so down caring about them.

[Ford_Prefect]

10. Who's going to stand trial for the murders?? Who will be sued for liability and damages?????

[jgmiller]

11. I realize I'm asking for the impossible but I want some of these people to explain to me

Why they have a problem taking a vacinne (essentially a drug) to help prevent COVID but they don't have a problem taking a drug not designed to fight COVID to fight COVID?