Abuses in Online Sales of Medication Part - II

As we had discussed in the last blog, wrong use of internet is now widly used fo sales drugs which are only be issue on prescriptions only. 

The Internet made it easy for the drug dealers to sneak into your living room. Federal law bars dispensing dangerous medications without a prescription from a doctor who has a bona fide relationship with the patient. But officials have had a hard time catching up to rogue Internet pharmacies that sometimes ship the drugs from foreign countries in disguised packages. For the last several years, the Drug Enforcement Administration and others have worked to halt the illegal trade and prosecute involved doctors and suppliers, with limited success.  One of the main problems is that the sites can literally open up for a week, close and open up under a different name. In a more recent practice, the new study found, some sites sell written prescriptions that can then be used at local pharmacies.  Federal drug authorities have begun working with credit card companies and banks to try to prevent such transactions, while major Internet search engines have used a verification program called Pharmacy Checker to confirm that advertisers are legitimate. But the system appears to be full of holes, critics say.