Fake Viagara Online Pharmicist Jailed
from the uh,-yeah,-sure-it's-legit... dept
It makes you wonder who actually trusted this site enough to give him money, but some guy who apparently was making counterfeit drugs in Mexico, shipping them over the border, and selling them online, has been sentenced to over four years in prison. Part of the scam was that you needed a doctor's review (for a small fee) of course, in order to get the drugs. Of course, there was no actual doctor, but that didn't stop the not-actual-pharmacy from shipping out the not-actual-drugs for very real money.
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Fake Viagra
So let me guess, if he was selling real Viagra w/o an Rx, he wouldn;t have been busted?
I cannot stand the paternalistic approach this country has to what a person chooses to put into their body. If you are willing to take the risk and pay the money to get drugs online (fake or not) then so be it.
These online shops provide a service. There are people who simply want to avoid the cost of the doctor. Given the proliferation of medical information online, at libraries, and other outlets, medical doctors are becoming more marginalized in the treatment of common diseases.
If you are a chronic asthmatic and you have been successfully using your medication for years, does it really make sense to keep paying a doctor to tell you what you already know just to keep getting Rx's for drugs you already know how to use? Not really.
It is your body, your life, and your money. The federal government has no compelling interest in protecting you from your own choices.
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Another thing.....if I am willing to live with the potential side effects of Vioxx, then why should Big Brother stick his nose in my business? Why isn't that my choice?
Connection between the two? The United States Government. Going to save me from myself in spite of myself.
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He shipped over some dude on a snowboard???
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Ha! Thank you... that was the funniest typo correction notice I've ever received... Fixed. :)
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