What Do you Do When your Protectors Become your Prosecutors?

There are a lot of drugs that are termed as prescription drugs which means that they are meant to be had only on medical advice. The main reason behind this is that administration of these drugs can cause chances of mishaps or serious side effects. But these drugs are also inevitable to certain causes and hence the option of completely imposing a ban on them is not feasible at all.

The most common drugs that come under the label of prescription drugs are the tranquilizers, mainly because they have serious side effects if taken in a wrong way and one can even get habitual to them. But still a lot of selling and purchasing of these drugs is done illegally as many people use them for their addictive qualities. Of late another type of prescription drug has come to be misused a lot. I think some of you might have guessed correctly, yes, I am talking about the erectile dysfunction drugs. In the last fifteen years the erectile dysfunction drugs have attained great popularity. Primarily because prior to these drugs no such medication was available for the treatment of ED. These drugs are however, strictly prescribed drugs. They have been diagnosed with various side effects which can be very serious at times. Irresponsible intake of these medicines can result in grave consequences as vision loss, hearing loss, heart attacks, and sometimes even death.

Therefore it is nothing but sheer foolishness to consume these medicines without prescription. But what would you do in a situation when the very person responsible for the safe sell and administration of these drugs is engaged in their illegal sale and intake? Under these circumstances how can one blame the patient? If he is made to have the drug without the proper knowledge of its usage, dosage, and the probable side effects, where does he go? He is bound to bear the brunt of a fault that he has not committed.

One of the main reasons that prompt the doctors and the chemists to indulge in such unparliamentary activities is gluttony. Almost all the erectile dysfunction drugs are expensive. So what these crooked people do is that they somehow procure these drugs at a cheaper rate and then sell them at a higher rate to the customers. Fearing a drop in the sales these people prefer to keep the patients in the dark regarding the probable side effects. So ultimately it is the innocent patients who have to suffer. It’s not as if all the time the patients actually suffer. Many a times they are also saved the curse of the side effects. But then it is only by chance that these patients are saved. It is like a hit and miss method. One never really knows when these drugs click or when they flop.

Recently it has happened in case of the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis. In Canada Cialis is available at a cheaper rate as compared to its neighboring country, the United States. The internet pharmacies buy Cialis

at a cheaper rate from Canada and sell them at a higher rate in States or other such countries. Since these pharmacies provide online cialis

at a cheaper rate as compared to the local market rate people prefer to buy cialis online.

Now since no physical check up of a patient is done by these online merchants people order cialis

like medicines from them even when they do not have a prescription in hand and sometimes in order to sell off the drug without delay and difficulty these pharmacies keep their customers in the dark regarding the risks of having medicines without medical prescription. Under such circumstances the only way to keep one safe from being cheated is to be alert and smart. One should take all the steps that are necessary to keep one safe from the thugs and the crooks. There is no other alternative, if one wants to avoid the gory circumstances of having a prescribed drug without prescription except to gather all information about a medicine before its actual consumption.

Insidermedicine In 60 – December 10, 2009