Warnings Regarding Safety of Imported Drugs Force Americans to Buy in Homeland Where Drug Supply Safety Is At Its Weakest, Says DoctorSolve
Biggest argument against importation is safety, but handling processes in the U.S. pose even greater threat to drug safety.
Vancouver, B.C. (PRWEB) June 17, 2005 -- A recent ad campaign sponsored by
Big Pharma claims that if Americans are allowed to import their medications from
Canada, those drugs may be counterfeit, unregulated and unsafe.
Dr. Paul
Zickler, co-founder of DoctorSolve Canadian Pharmacy (http://www.doctorsolve.com)
dismisses the campaign as the latest attempt to dupe consumers into buying
medications from American suppliers who charge 40 – 70 per cent more. “The
safety concern is merely a fear tactic,” Zickler says. “Imported drugs come from
the same manufacturers who already provide drugs to U.S. suppliers. In fact, 40
per cent of the prescription drugs Americans consume come from
overseas.”
Even Dr. Peter Rost, Vice President with Pfizer, shoots down
Big Pharma’s fear mongering. “They take out big ads in American newspapers, and
tell us that reimportation is not safe, while they know full well that it’s been
done safely and cost-effectively in Europe for over twenty years.”
In
fact, Rost believes that drugs coming from other countries may actually be safer
than those made in the U.S. “A problem in this country is that our drugs are
shipped in big vats to wholesalers, and then poured into smaller, bulk-size
containers, from which tablets are dispensed manually to the patient.” This
means there are lots of entry points for bioterrorism. “In Europe, drugs are
sold in tamper-proof individual bottles or blisters, and no one touches a drug
after it leaves the manufacturer.”
Contrary to what the ad campaign is
saying, Rost believes that “reimportation is about a safe drug supply, and
getting drugs to consumers who can’t afford them.” He maintains that “the fight
against reimportation is a fight to continue to charge our uninsured, our
elderly, our poor, our weakest, full price, while giving everyone else a
rebate.” This, he says is “fundamentally unethical.”
DoctorSolve, a
Canadian Internet-based pharmacy intermediary (license #BC Q37), offers
lower-cost, long-term prescriptions. A professionally registered pharmacist
fills all prescriptions. A certified member of the Canadian International
Pharmacy Association, DoctorSolve is ranked as one of the best (five-star)
online pharmacies by PharmacyChecker.com. DoctorSolve has filled more than
200,000 U.S. prescriptions.
For more information, call 1-866-732-0305 or
visit http://www.doctorsolve.com
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