About Buying Drugs Online - Dangers

Hundreds of web-sites offer prescription drugs for sale, and the number of online pharmacy sites is growing daily. While legitimate pharmacy sites can provide a private, practical, and sometimes cheaper way to obtain prescription medications - particularly for those who live in remote areas or are unable to travel to pharmacies - online buyers must take extra precautions to ensure that they are receiving safe medications from a reputable provider. There is a growing illegal trade in pharmaceuticals, fed by criminal profiteers, unscrupulous wholesalers, rogue Internet sites and foreign pharmacies. In the past few years, these illegal operators have siphoned off growing numbers of popular and lifesaving drugs and diverted them into a multibillion-dollar shadow market. They have introduced counterfeit pharmaceuticals into the mainstream drug chain. And they have hawked millions of doses of narcotics over the Internet. The result too often is pharmaceutical roulette for millions of unsuspecting people. Purchasing drugs from an illegal online pharmacy can cause serious health risks. Drugs sold by an unlicensed pharmacy may be: · outdated or expired, · may be manufactured in substandard facilities, · may contain dangerous ingredients, may have been improperly stored, · or may be too strong or too weak. Medications sold by unlicensed pharmacies can also contain the wrong drugs or even be outright fakes. Unscrupulous pharmacy Web sites may also sell or share your personal and financial information with other parties While caution is the rule when making any online purchase, buying prescription drugs online warrants extra scrutiny. Always thoroughly investigate an online pharmacy before making a purchase. First and foremost, before you purchase medications from an online pharmacy, check to be sure that you are dealing with a UK registered pharmacy. If the site is UK compliant: · They should be registered with Companies House. · They should be listed on the Data Protection register. · They should not advertise or push customers to buy any one treatment. The decision should be made between the doctor and the patient. · They should not advertise their prices before a medical consultation has been made.