lead paint, rat poison, cement, blue dye and boric acid

The Sun Newspaper has been highlighting the dangers of buying medication online from illegal online pharmacies. They’ve recently reported on the case of a man called David Saville who thought that he had come across a bargain when he found a website selling erectile dysfunction medication for £1 per pill and immediately purchased 40 of them with his credit card. It didn’t take him long to realise that what he had purchased was completely dud and he had been ripped off. 

In fact because the tablets didn’t work it made him more stressed and anxious about sexual encounters which compounded his erectile dysfunction even more. It was only when his sensible girlfriend advised him to go and seek proper medical help that he was able to get genuine erectile dysfunction medication which did the trick. David is now much more relaxed and enjoying his sex life.

Reports from the MHRA show that as many as 1 in 7 UK adults have purchased prescription medication online without a prescription. They often cite cheap costs and the lack of embarrassment as the inventive to take the risk of online purchases but they are usually unaware of exactly how dangerous the counterfeit medication is.

Ukmedix News has come across reports where fake medication has contained lead paint, rat poison, cement, blue dye and boric acid as well as dangerously high concentrations of prescription medication. You might get lucky and buy something which works cheaply but the different surveys have shown that at least 50 percent of all illegally purchased prescription medication online is fake and therefore potentially harmful.

Pfizer who make the world’s best selling erectile dysfunction drug Viagra have recently been working with the MHRA in the UK and have set up a campaign called ‘Real Danger, Get Real, Get a Prescription’ to inform the public about how they can check for counterfeit medication suppliers.

At Ukmedix all prescription medication comes with a prescription from a UK registered doctor and all medication comes from UK registered pharmacies. As well as this it is possible to use Pharmacheck so that you can get the name and address of the dispensing pharmacy. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has made it clear that if an online pharmacy cannot provide a “bricks and mortar” address for the UK dispensing pharmacy they should be avoided because the chances are they are selling counterfeit medication.