AWARxE

AWARxE is an information source providing authoritative resources about medication safety, prescription drug abuse, medication disposal, and safely buying medications on the Internet.

  BeSafeRx

Considering an online pharmacy? Have you or someone you know thought about buying prescription medicine online? FDA’s BeSafeRx campaign helps consumers learn about how to safely buy prescription medicines online.

  Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy, a delivery service for prescription medications

Using a secure pharmacy profile, customers can add their insurance information, manage prescriptions and choose payment options all through Amazon’s service.

  Drug Sites Upend Doctor-Patient Relations: ‘It’s Restaurant-Menu Medicine’

The sites invert the usual practice of medicine by turning the act of prescribing drugs into a service. Instead of doctors making diagnoses and then suggesting treatments, patients request drugs and physicians serve largely as gatekeepers.

 Americans Need Safer Access To Canadian Online Pharmacies

At CPPI, we recommend patients only purchase medications from websites that have been vetted by the Canadian International Pharmacy Association or PharmacyChecker...

 BeSafeRx: Know Your Online Pharmacy

Fake online pharmacies can manipulate their websites to appear legitimate, so checking the pharmacy’s license through your state board of pharmacy (or equivalent state agency) is an important step to know whether you are using a safe and legal online pharmacy. FDA BeSafeRx is a national campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of buying prescription medicines from fake online pharmacies.

 This is how easy it is to order deadly opioids over the internet

A Google search, a few emails, and some Bitcoin.

Online Pharmacy Capsule Looks to Expand Nationwide

Online pharmacy Capsule Corp. is readying to go national as retail and drugstore stalwarts scramble to reinvent the way people get their prescriptions. The venture-funded startup, operating in New York City since 2015, provides same-day delivery of medicines and access to a team of pharmacists via text, email or phone.

Amazon just made an eye-popping play to disrupt drug stores

Amazon buys Pillpack, another major health care move for Jeff Bezos’s company.

Amazon’s Illegal Drug Dealing

Thanks to work by people like Oliver Catlin, organizations like CSIP, and FDA actions against companies like BodyBuilding.com, Amazon is well aware that it operates a marketplace where illegal drugs are sold to American consumers. This report adds prescription antibiotics and muscle relaxants to the mix.

Be Cautious Buying Drugs For Your Pet Online

But just as the quality of online pharmacies for people varies, so do those for veterinary medicines. This month, the FDA reiterated a campaign to make people with companion animals more aware of how to buy veterinary medicines of high quality and known providence.

Buying Cheaper Drugs Online

“You can’t be 100 percent certain with any sites, frankly,” Mr. Bate said. “But you are running a much lower risk if you buy from a credentialed site.”

Buying from Canadian Online Pharmacies Is Risky Business

Purchasing prescriptions from Canada is markedly less expensive than buying them at your local pharmacy or from a U.S. online pharmacy. However, there are risks involved in this practice, and these risks should be considered before purchasing medication from our neighbor to the north.

Counterfeit drugs are putting the whole world at risk

Even if you don't buy the fake pharmaceuticals yourself.

Fake Medicine Is A Bigger Problem Than You Think

Counterfeit medicine can look identical to legitimate medicine from an approved manufacturer and pharmacy, and the packaging can, too. In the internet age, it’s also available at the touch of a button online.

International Online Pharmacies Can Offer Safe Drugs At Low Prices

PharmacyChecker.com only gives its seal of approval to online pharmacies that fill orders through licensed pharmacies, when a valid prescription is provided.

Internet Drugs Can Kill

Many Internet pharmacies leave the impression that they are located in Canada and are selling legitimate brand-name drugs that have been manufactured in Canada. However, these claims of legitimacy are often blatantly false. Many, if not most, of the drugs are not approved by the FDA and are not safe or effective. They are often not even approved by the Canadian government. That is because medicines that are not used domestically in Canada are not subject to the scrutiny of Canada’s safety laws. Therefore, drugs from Canadian Internet pharmacies can come from anywhere in the world. This has made Canadian Internet pharmacies the primary supplier of counterfeit drugs to the United States.

Obtaining the abortion pill from pharmacies and online gains support among women

As debate intensifies in the U.S. over abortion, a new survey finds nearly half of all women support alternatives to visiting a medical facility in order to obtain the abortion medicine to terminate pregnancies.

Online pharmacies can save you money

Yes, there are rogue pharmacies to be avoided. But, there are also highly reputable international pharmacies which have been helping millions of Americans for many years.

Scare Tactics Over Foreign Drugs

For almost 15 years big drug companies have vigorously lobbied Congress and the federal government to stop Americans from buying foreign medicines. As part of that lobbying, they have made it seem as if all medications purchased from Canada and other international sources are the same as those that come from websites that sell counterfeit drugs. Even the F.D.A. has made that suggestion.

Sketchy Pharmacies Are Selling Hormones to Transgender People

Burdened by cost and medical discrimination, many people are taking a do-it-yourself approach to transitioning.

What You Need to Know About Online Pharmacies

With millions of uninsured Americans looking for cheaper alternatives to their prescribed medication and steadily increasing advances in internet technology, online pharmacies are becoming more and more popular by year. But are they reputable? Here’s a look at the current controversy surrounding online pharmacies...

Why Cory Booker is wrong about the safety of drugs from Canada

Researchers have done studies comparing the quality of drugs purchased online from Canadian pharmacies with their US equivalents, and found they’re pretty much the same.

Why I Had to Buy My Wife's Inhaler on the Dark Web

You can buy a range of prescription medicines online for a fraction of the cost.