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Prescription Drugs: Online pharmacies face restrictive trade practices even when they are quite legal. The High Cost of Prescription Drugs for Uninsured Americans. International online pharmacies fight back ..

With the increased cost of prescription drugs, the economic recession and unemployment on the rise, more and more consumers are turning to the Internet for discounted prescription medications. Safety and confidentiality are among the main concerns shoppers face when purchasing prescription drugs from online pharmacies. Pharmacy Network (www.pharmacy-network.com) aims to dispel these worries and put an end to the reputation the Internet has given online pharmacies, particularly International, Mexican and Canadian pharmacies most of whom provide a valuable service often against the internet itself as they are barred from advertising in the main search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing unless they are pharmacy businesses registered in the USA and they purchase a Pharmacy Checker badge.

Whilst Pharmacy Network completely supports the ousting and blacklisting of Drugstores that are known scams and those that irresponsibly supply fake or outdated medications the whole international pharmacy industry should not be made to pay in the way that it has. Independent businesses which is what they are including PharmacyChecker.com and now new kid on the block LegitScript.com have taken it upon themselves to "clean up" the internet in respect of pharmacies. For what reason? They are good Citizens who really care? ... The truth of the matter is that they want to make money out of it and can do so out of selling their services to the main search engines. However in doing so and no matter what their intentions may be, what they have done is to effectively say that every pharmacy in the World that isn't registered in the USA and who pays them a fee is a "rogue or blacklisted pharmacy", and; Guess what? Google, Yahoo and Bing buy that because it's easier for them to accept a third party screening of advertisers rather than do it themselves. Actually what they are all achieving is to support restrictive trading practices something which is illegal in Europe under EEC law. There has to be a better way.. it is ridiculous to state that the only pharmacies in the World that are legitimate and safe are American pharmacies who pay fees to independent screeners.. and who screens the screeners .. and what special qualifications do PharmacyChecker.com and LegitScript.com have to assess the capability and legitimacy of International Online Pharmacies?

Yahoo! Also Displaying No-Prescription Required, non-US Internet Pharmacy Ads
2009 SEP 6 - (NewsRx.com) LegitScript.com, an online pharmacy verification service, and KnujOn.com, an Internet compliance company, have released a report analyzing Yahoo's online advertisements for Internet pharmacies. The report indicates that more than 80% of Yahoo's Internet pharmacy ads reviewed by the authors were operating contrary to US federal and state laws (see also Pharmaceuticals).

In the report, the researchers state that they were able to buy prescription drugs without a prescription from Yahoo Internet pharmacy advertisements, including of potentially habit-forming medications. In one case, the drugs were imported from India, which is prohibited by US law.

The report also touches on PharmacyChecker.com, Yahoo!'s Internet pharmacy verification service. In the report, the authors indicate that they acquired prescription drugs without a prescription from an Internet pharmacy approved by PharmacyChecker and listed on PharmacyChecker.com.

Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft require their Internet pharmacy advertisers to be verified as legitimate by PharmacyChecker.

In an earlier report, the authors announced that they had purchased prescription drugs without a prescription, and had been sent counterfeit medications, from bing.com online pharmacy advertisers. A few days after Microsoft responded that it had manually reviewed its pharmacy ads and removed all offenders, KnujOn announced that it had conducted yet another purchase of addictive prescription drugs from a bing.com advertiser without a valid prescription.

Yahoo's policy requires Internet pharmacy advertisers to be "based in" the United States or Canada. The report reviewed three Internet pharmacies that were approved as advertisers based on having a Canadian pharmacy license. In all three cases, the Internet pharmacies indicated that the drugs would actually be shipped from places like India, Singapore or Barbados, not Canada. One Internet pharmacy advertiser approved as a licensed Canadian Internet pharmacy stated that it could fill prescriptions anywhere in the world except for Canada, because prescription drug importation is illegal there.

The report indicates that three national organizations, including the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), and National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, have written to all three search engines over the last year to warn them that they were profiting from ads placed by online pharmacies acting unlawfully.

"We're making this a public issue because it's time for this to stop," KnujOn President Garth Bruen said. "If the search engines continue to knowingly facilitate illegal prescription drug sales, then we'll continue to issue these reports. Our reports stop when the problem is fixed."

"Yahoo! needs to require that its Internet pharmacy ads adhere to US laws and National Association of Boards of Pharmacy standards," LegitScript President John Horton said. "These are the same safeguards that govern brick-and-mortar pharmacies used throughout the US everyday. Shouldn't American Internet users be assured of the same safeguards online?"

LegitScript is the only Internet pharmacy verification organization in the United States identified by the NABP as adhering to its standards for certifying Internet pharmacies as safe and legitimate.

and.. Los Angeles Times columnist David Lazarus writes ".. until the U.S. can extend health coverage to everyone and limit drug prices to reasonable levels, many Americans will have no choice but to seek the best possible deal for their meds, and this will often require them to look beyond our borders, via the Internet. Lawmakers need to step carefully in any crackdown on Internet drug sales because, simply put, we can't punish people for trying to make up for shortfalls of the U.S. health care system."

The Law! .. In the case of the USA (and indeed most Countries) the FDA (and other Government authorities) will allow you to legally import up to three months supply of a medication providing it is for your personal usage and not for resale.

Pharmacy Network are one of the leading online pharmacies.. established over 10 years they supply a huge range of brand and generic medications including cancer drugs, diabetes drugs, HIV and anti viral drugs, antibiotics, CNS stimulants, heart & cardiovascular medications, female hormones and pain management drugs..