I did a couple of googles… found a couple pages about them and about 200,000 more, offering me sexual performance medication. No thank you.
I really don’t understand fully how this works. I understand the online consultation with a Dr. I also understand that Dr. writes a prescription, sends it to a pharmacy… then what?
I believe they call these companies NRP or NROPs… basically.no record pharmacys.
I have the impression that they operate through loopholes in the law.
This may sound like a silly and broad question but, Where do the pharmacies come from? are these “regular pharmacies”? it’s hard for me to believe that I can obtain pain medicine confirmation within minutes of filling out a form… yet, when I tore a ligament, I waited an our for the doctor, and another for the pharmacy.
worth mentioning is: if the pharmacies are unregulated, without records… who is to say that someone cannot place five separate orders for medication in under a month…then get three approved due to different doctors reviewing their forms and not communicating.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but shouldn’t pharmacies and the Attorney General keep accounts of prescriptions and amounts of medications? these medications are supposedly “FDA” approved. my bottom line is that if Elli Lilley produces 6 million pills per year and one million are unaccounted for at the end of the year, wouldn’t that create suspicion?
can someone explain to me what these “pharmacies” are? are they legitimate or runout of someone’s basement? how are they acquiring these medications legally?
This one might be IMHO but, Are there doctors who are so bad in their practice of medicine that they must revert to reviewing online “applications”?
(I suppose it isnt IMHO if the answer if that "they make more money this way)
A friend of mine is down on his luck, job-wise, and for a little bit of time looked into the online pharmacy thing as a money making venture. From what he told me, it’s a pyramid scheme. You get in with one of these places offering the drugs, and you make money by recruiting others to do the same thing.
As far as the prescriptions themselves, from my understanding there are two levels of controlled drugs - your basic drugs like viagra, birth control pills, and other non-addicting non-recreational drugs. Then there’s vicoden and codeine and all those drugs that can be habit forming and are prone to abuse. The online pharmacies (at least the one my friend looked into) only deal with the first type of drugs.
I’ve been meaning to ask about this for a while myself… The online pharmacy thing recently broke the news here in my tiny Northern European country. I hadn’t really been aware of them before. Yeah, they operate through loopholes in the law here, too, and there was a bit of an outrage for a little while. Anyway, I figured I just had to try it out and see if they would in fact deliver.
In this case, it was a greek-based “pharmacy” that was in the news, that would ship, among other things, painkillers and antidepressants that you usually need a prescription from a doctor in order to get here and that normally don’t come cheap (not sure how it works for you guys in the U.S.).
So, I bought some Prozac. Really cheap Prozac. Got in delivered in the mail a while ago. The box says “Ladose”, which does indeed appear to be a Greek brand name for Prozac. All the documentation included is in Greek, and only in Greek, and I don’t understand a word of it. Neither would most people around here. It seems shady indeed.
Anyway, what do I do with it? Do I feed it to the neighbour’s dogs when they’re doing their “barking at the moon” thing? Do I put it in my morning coffee? Would it have any effect on me if I took it, since I’m, to my knowledge, no more depressed than the next guy?
A family member with a drug habit has “helped” me learn quite a bit about these web sites. Most operate off shore (India seems to be a major host country, based on return addresses). The consultatation is a sham, you get whatever you ask for. It is illegal in the US. Said family member also receives threatening letters from US Customs every time they intercept one of his prescriptions.
How real are the pills? Some look like the real thing, down to the printing on the blister pack. Sometimes you just get a bunch of pills wrapped in cellophane. Sometimes, you get nothing.
From what I can tell, none of these web sites has an actual brick and mortar pharmacy anywhere.
I ordered some Valium from one online a few years ago (don’t ask, I haven’t ever done anything similar before or after). They promised rapid shipping but nothing came and I forgot about it. About four months later, I got a very plain envelop from India. Inside was just blister packs of Valium and nothing else. The labeling was from a major pharmaceutical company and the pills were stamped and looked legit. They worked too.
There isn’t any loophole for that. It is just illegal drug trading with the pretense of being somewhat legitimate.
