In the U. The online drugstore doesn't have a licensed pharmacist available to answer your questions. The website isn't "secure. Secure websites use special tools to "encrypt" your information. They turn it into a code that other people can't read.
You can tell that a website is secure if the URL the Web address begins with "https" rather than just "http. You could end up buying pills that hurt rather than help. Related Information Reducing Medication Costs. Food and Drug Administration Buying prescription medicine online: A consumer safety guide. Food and Drug Administration. Accessed October 17, World Health Organization She started doing so in after becoming addicted to the opioid hydrocodone, which she was given for a slipped disc.
She was able order medicines while she was pregnant by clicking a question on a form to say she was not pregnant, although in this instance the pills were not obtained from Doctoru and David could not recall which website they came from. He added that addiction had had a huge impact on his family. Concerns have also been raised about websites allowing people to select medicines including opiates and opioids before a consultation. Things are almost at a crisis point.
This article is more than 3 years old. Regulator wants stricter rules in place to stop multiple orders linked to same address. He said his doctor told him OxyContin is not addictive and that he could take as much as he needed.
Because Wu was never identified as having a substance abuse problem, he is unlikely to have appeared in the government's tally. As his habit worsened, Wu started chewing OxyContin to intensify its effect and downed vast quantities of Chinese liquor and sleeping pills. Despite the officially low numbers, the Chinese government was worried enough about pain pill abuse that it pulled combination opioids from most pharmacies in September.
Among the pills targeted was Tylox, made by the drug company Mallinckrodt's subsidiary SpecGx. The risks of opioid abuse in China may be growing as pharmaceutical companies look abroad to make up for falling opioid prescriptions in the U.
OxyContin has been marketed in China with the same tactics that drove Purdue Pharma into bankruptcy in the U. Purdue Pharma's China affiliate, Mundipharma, has denied allegations of wrongdoing and says it has "checks and balances in place including internal audits and reviews to ensure strict compliance with medical protocols, laws and regulations.
As opioid overdose deaths surged past , in the United States, online trafficking networks, many of which sourced chemicals in China, made it easier to buy black market drugs. But despite China's scrupulous monitoring of online activity, the AP found black markets for OxyContin and other pain pills on the open internet. An AP survey of China's major e-commerce and social media platforms identified thirteen vendors selling opioid painkillers.
They often used one platform to draw in customers and another for sales. Eight of them used Tencent's popular WeChat app. Last week, in a closed group for cancer patients on Tencent's QQ app, one person tried to buy OxyContin and another offered to sell Tylox. One vendor created a fake storefront on Xianyu to execute transactions.
After arranging an OxyContin sale on WeChat, the vendor sent a special link for a product listing on Xianyu for "flowers" that cost the agreed price: 1, yuan for 10 boxes of 10mg OxyContin pills.
Idle Fish said it removed listings that violated marketplace policies after AP pointed out illicit opioid sales. The company said it prohibits "illegal behavior by third-party sellers on the platform," proactively monitors listings and welcomes user reports to facilitate takedowns. A thread about quitting drugs on Tieba, a forum run by tech giant Baidu, also led to opioid dealers. AP identified one person on Tieba selling OxyContin in December and earlier this year made contact with two other people selling painkillers and sleeping pills.
One swore that OxyContin is not addictive and said it makes sex better and gives you an unparalleled "feeling of floating. Baidu said it constantly monitors its platforms keep them free of illegal activity, facilitates user reports of bad behavior and reports infractions to the police. In addition to the active vendors AP identified, Tianya, an internet forum, had dozens of postings by people selling or seeking OxyContin stretching back over several years.
Wu, the cancer survivor, said he was offered pills after posting his contact information in a thread about OxyContin on Tianya in April. Tianya didn't respond to requests for comment. To evade detection, sellers used partial names or slang and posted stock photos of things like socks, a cactus or elaborate pink ceiling lamps.
Postings often disappeared. One significant regulatory loophole in China is that family members try to resell OxyContin left over after a loved one dies. The main side-effect was oversleeping — sometimes she would sleep for 14 hours — which would affect her social life.
She described the physical effects as like being given gas and air in hospital. Helen said that while most of the websites she ordered from stated that customers should not be using other online pharmacies, she used several. Also, just healthwise, I wanted to feel better.
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