While browsing the Internet, one may have noted that there are thousands of websites, which are selling medicines, drugs and other pharmaceutical products. These types of websites are called Online pharmacy websites or online prescription website. To much extent they claim to be safe and ethical but the question to be raised is, ‘is it really true'? Are they safe enough to be trusted by anyone who is looking for something genuine to cure his/her ailment? To be very fair, not all the communication between a consumer and an Online Pharmacy website are wrong. Neither all online drug websites are illegal.
There is usually no tension until the pharmacy websites leaves or skips the most important step of making sure that a physician who has written a prescription is familiar with the patient and his past medical history. But indeed, there is a problem with this type of selling of drugs over Internet. Recently, in the state of
In this article, we will try to discover answers to many questions like this and more specifically the safety and danger to customers from purchasing drugs online, and scan recent initiatives to check the online pharmacy and online drug prescription industry.
The most part of the costumers of these online pharmacy websites are the elderly people who prefer for convenience of ordering and getting drugs without going out of their home. So finally it can be said that these online pharmacy websites allow it's consumers to order the products they want and consult with a pharmacist in the privacy of their homes. Because and that is why the most popular drugs sold through internet pharmacies are the drugs used to improve lifestyle, which includes Viagra for erectile dysfunction, Propecia for hair loss, and Xenical for obesity.
Sometimes, anonymous consultation with a distant pharmacist is easier than a visit to the family doctor. While, supplying or sending drugs and medicines through Internet is illegal and justifiable, prescribing drugs on Internet bring a major health risk to the patients. At the websites that prescribes drugs, a patient gets a drug prescribed only by answering a questionnaire provided by the website. Through this questionnaire form patient can't tell every single detail about his health status and body's past medical history to the Internet pharmacist. This exposes patients to dangerous side effects from inappropriately prescribed medicines and dangerous drug interactions. Also this self diagnosis stops a patient from taking the correct and necessary medical treatment. Mostly websites like the ones trapped by the FDA in recent times was selling drugs without any prescription or any type of questionnaire. These types of online pharmacy websites and all the products sold on these websites can be called illegal, if guidelines given by FDA and WHO are reviewed.
Moreover, there are certain other things to check while approaching an online pharmacy website. Some of them are; is the website you are about to buy medicines and drugs from, certified by square trade organization? If yes, it means that the website is declared legal for trade after many rounds of intensive tests and examinations. After this only, these websites are allowed to apply a logo of square trade on their pages. To see whether this logo is original or the work of an internet scam artist, you need to click on that logo, which will link you to the official website of square trade organization.
Source: EzineAticles.com
