Skyrocketing healthcare costs, especially regarding prescription drugs, has led millions of people to seek cheaper drugs through online pharmacies. While some see getting less expensive drugs through a website as a way to economize, others feel it is risky at best.
What may have started out as an earnest attempt to attain medication for elderly from across the border due to ever-increasing pharmaceutical company billion dollar profit margins, this tactic has evolved into something unimaginable and very difficult to regulate.
With hundreds of drug-dispensing websites available online, the FDA warns consumers that purchasing a medication from an illegal website puts you at risk. You may receive a contaminated or counter feit product, the wrong product, an incorrect dose, or no product at all. These and other warnings can be found at www.fda.gov/oc/buyonline/default.htm.
Another danger for online pharmacies is that with a simple medical questionnaire, one that is supposedly legitimately reviewed by a doctor, a shipping address and a credit card people can buy addictive drugs with high abuse potential with relative ease, even those already addicted. In fact, doing a search of the web with the terms "prescription drug fraud" leads to drug-dispensing sites, meaning some actually try to position their site under those search terms. Some are obviously more covert about it than others.
With all the advertising that takes place for pharmaceuticals in the Untied States, it appears that the manufacturers only concern about online pharmacies is that the across the border sales cause their profit margin to drop.
According to Congressman Bernard Sanders (I ? VT), "For the last year, the pharmaceutical industry has used scare tactics to try and stop real prescription drug legislation from passing in Congress. One of its most deceitful and shameless claims is that real reform will somehow stifle research and development and make their business unprofitable. However, as these figures show, the industry is pocketing the largest profit margin of any industry in the nation, with these profits far outweighing their spending on research and development. Make no mistake about it, there is a direct connection between the drug companies massive profits and Americans being charged the highest prices for prescription drugs in the world."
Congressman Sanders' website (http://bernie.house.gov/prescriptions/profits.asp) goes into much more detail about this fact, complete with statistics and graphs. This shouldn't come as a surprise though, since the idea of treating man like an animal with a pill for every ill and a subjective diagnosis created to sell the pills is the basis for the downfall of our currently aberrated society.
Let's not forget that the history of the word pharmacy comes from the Greek word pharmakon, meaning poison or drug. All drugs have side effects and can act as poison to a person's body, regardless of their intended use or benefit.
With recent stories of celebrities becoming addicted to prescription painkillers, some overdosing, and the millions of other Americans that become addicted to these narcotics with fancy packaging, has the line between legal and illegal drugs faded away? After all, heroin used to be on the other side of that line originally too.
Maybe it was only an illusion in the first place.
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