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Add to FavoritesI can't speak for the rest of world, but the prices of prescription medications here in America are extremely high, to say the least! Buying certain medications through the internet is perfectly safe! As long as you do your research about the background of the company that you are purchasing from.
I would hope that most of us are sharp enough to know how to do our homework when it comes to the drugs we put into our bodies! Now, with that point being made. The number one reason that these medications are so popular here in America, is the price! Take my word for it my friends.
If it was about anything other than the price of prescription medications here in the states, I might agree with the notion that some put forward about the safety of the consumer. But here in America, the companies that manufacture most medications hold a huge monoply on the cost of production, versus the profit margin that they require!
In literally hundreds of thousands of cases here in the states. The elderly and lower income households have to make the choice of buying their medications, or buying their food or paying their necessary bills every single month! This is due to the fact of the astronomical cost of their prescription medications! This is a hard, cold, fact! It's something that our government keeps promising to help with, but somehow it always seems to slip through the cracks of whatever administration that happens to be in power, at that moment!
I totally agree with some of what has been written about different countries having different drug standards. So this is always a concern. But if you do some solid research, and buy your medications from say, Canada for example. The risk is minimal, at most. In all honesty, if the drug manufacturers were less concerned about their profit margin, and more concerned about the American consumer. This would be a non-issue, here in America.
But as we all know. This is the home of capitalisim, at it's finest! This is an issue that has been going on for decades! There is no forseeable end in sight, as far as the American consumer is concerned. It's always about the all-mighty dollar! It has absolutely nothing to do with what is right, or fair in this country. The doctors have nothing to do with the set price of pharmacuetical's. Much to the dismay of their patient's!
In conclusion of this article. This is really a taboo subject, here in the United States. No one wants to even hear about it. Much less actually do anything about it. Every politician in the last thirty years promise's to help the Seniors. The Veterans, and the lower income families. This is always part of any platform that the next president runs on. Along with Health Care Reform. I can only hope that by the time my grandchildren are my age. That something will actually have been done in order to help the ones who need help, the most!
Until that time arrives. Buying medications over the internet, will continue to grow in the amount of people who have no other choice. I want the people who read this article to understand. For most of the people who are the consumers of this business. It's not a matter of choice. It's a matter of necessity!
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Medicines are chemical compounds of natural or synthetic origin that would cure diseases or eliminate their symptoms when a cure doesn't exist.
This happen more in the theory than in the practice and I personally have a very scarce trust (and I'm not the only!) on most medicines existing in commerce that are, instead, absolutely useless as cures and have various side-effects, in the short and long term. Consequently, all medicines must be used carefully, when really necessary and only a good doctor can prescribe them, after a careful analysis of patients' conditions. This is just the opposite of what it's possible online, where I think the risks are absolutely excessive for the following reasons:
1) Every kind of medicine, even the most ridiculous and dangerous, can be freely purchased by all of us, psychologically weak and ingenuous consumers.
Many sites are, in the largest part, the expression of foreign companies with registered offices in the tax havens of certain well-known places of the world and this makes uncertain and risky to get reimbursements when the products are not what desired.
2) These sites offer these medicines with very skilful and effective advertisement messages, as they were selling us snacks or electric appliances, not potentially dangerous chemicals to be used with caution. They describing all their stuff as exceptional, safe and natural remedies with a long glittering list of beneficial effects. So, how reliable all these products and the companies offering them can be?
My personal answer is: zero.
3) I'm already contrary to all commerce online, or e-commerce because I think commercial products and services must be seen and bought directly in shops to better compare and choose them, as far as we can; on the more reason, I'm contrary to medicines purchase online, in addition, without any medical prescription (it's enough to pay!...) or reliable indication on how to use correctly the product. The risk is that, believing in all these promises (also about the so-called homeopathic, natural or herbal remedies) we finish to be intoxicated or even poisoned. Who can guarantee for us these alleged medicines, starting from their simple correct dosing also assuming this is really effective? An online advertising page with a smiling sexy girl wearing the white coat who promises us health, recovery, fitness or a new sexual efficiency?
4) Another problem is that some medical drugs online are forbidden in many Countries (but not in others!) or not prescribed by doctors outside hospitals like hormones (easily purchased to practice doping in sport at every level) or anti-cancer drugs.
The online world is a jungle, the last place where to look for the cure we need, however desperate, suffering and deluded by official medicine we can be.
5) Another serious issue is the commercial honesty of these sites as such; they could be the sites of ghost-companies, able to take the money you pay online without never sending you the required product, or even traps managed by hackers to steal your money during the transaction or infect your PC with viruses or spy-ware to illegally monitor your online activity. It would be really fool to look for a cure for your health, finding, instead, a virus for your PC! Also when you order on-line a product prescribed by your doctor, hoping to save money when it is very expensive and not covered by your health-care system, nothing will defend you from this kind of risks, common to all purchases you can make on the Internet.
6) Many people, for example, are attracted by the "viagra" sites or by those promising a very unlikely enlargement of penis, stressing on the desperate need of many people with real problems to find a solution at any cost.
These sites are among the most dangerous because they try to hit us where we are most vulnerable, the problems related to our health or sexuality.
7) In Europe, advertising on most of medicines is forbidden on TV, journals and magazines; strangely, this ban is still very weak for medicines commerce online, a field where many little and great companies have enormous economic interests and move a huge of money.
8) Another serious problem is that these sites are easily available for teens too; among them, there are many young girls looking for a product to lose weight as soon as possible and follow their impossible and paranoid fitness dreams.
These drugs, like amphetamines that depress hunger feeling and make slide girls into anorexia, are the great fashion of the last years and can also create other dangerous side-effects, like insomnia and depression, until suicide.
Well, all these trash-products are available online and we only must click "order" or "buy".
9) The last issue to consider is the price of these products; apparently, they are cheap, but, as for all the products on-line, their total cost for you is raised by the expedition fees of the medicine to your address and by the fees charged on your payment on-line.
- Conclusion.
I'd like to know how many people in the world have already lost their health and even their life buying medicines online, but I fear it's very difficult to get reliable statistics on this reality. One reason could be that these persons, after having lost their money online for a dangerous scam, feel themselves ashamed of this and they don't denounce it to the authorities, just like many women do after having undergone a rape or when they suffer for years the violence by their husbands and partners without the courage to denounce him.
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