Written by Jamie Stowe | Monday, 25 August 2008 | There are 0 comments
The European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines claim that over 60% of all medicine bought online is either counterfeit or poor quality. According to their research while the majority of the medicine purchased online tends to be “lifestyle drugs” such as Viagra for erectile dysfunction and Reductil for weight loss there is nevertheless a growing market for all types of medication being sold online.

Online pharmacies are attractive to certain people because they don’t want to go and get prescriptions from doctors because they find the whole process embarrassing. Men would rather have the anonymity of buying medication through the internet than having to submit to a possible medical examination at a doctor’s clinic. Women feel the same way about weight loss and therefore like the idea of being able to get prescription medication easily.
The obvious danger is that the majority of online clinics selling impotence drugs and weight loss drugs do not require a prescription and this means that they are not selling you the real drug. A clinic that does require a prescription will almost certainly be selling you the correct drug as opposed to some cheap counterfeit import from India or China which could in fact be damaging to your health.
At Ukmedix a prescription is always required before medicine is dispensed, and the prescription can be obtained by having an online consultation with a doctor so that you get a high quality of professional care. Research conducted in America shows that for some illnesses such as erectile dysfunction the quality of patient care conducted online can be significantly better because the patient but is more open and honest about their condition because they don’t have the embarrassment of eye to eye contact when discussing delicate details of their illness.
It is important that you choose an online pharmacy extremely carefully. While many pharmacies claim to be based in the United Kingdom in fact they operate from China and India and are nothing more than credit card scams. At Ukmedix in order to give all customers peace of mind firstly a prescription will be offered if the doctor feels that you are fit to take the medication in question, and secondly a unique system called Pharmacheck allows you to get the address of the UK based pharmacy from where your medication is being dispensed.
This way you can be sure that you only get branded erectile dysfunction and weight loss medication from a licensed pharmacy and you are not putting your health in danger by using a fake counterfeit medication.
