Comments on: One Dead Canadian, One Raging Debate http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/07/one-dead-canadian-one-raging-debate/ News, Comment and Conversation Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:31:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Biotech Blog » Drug reimportation: Where are the dead Canadians? http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/07/one-dead-canadian-one-raging-debate/#comment-15186 Biotech Blog » Drug reimportation: Where are the dead Canadians? Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:40:21 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/07/one-dead-canadian-one-raging-debate/#comment-15186 [...] where are the dead Canadians? Here’s one: Marcia Bergeron succumbed to a combination of fake drugs acquired over the [...] [...] where are the dead Canadians? Here’s one: Marcia Bergeron succumbed to a combination of fake drugs acquired over the [...]

]]> By: Sal Giorgianni, PharmD http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/07/one-dead-canadian-one-raging-debate/#comment-15132 Sal Giorgianni, PharmD Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:17:58 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/07/one-dead-canadian-one-raging-debate/#comment-15132 Importation is very dangerous. Pharmaceutical products are not simple commodities, they are complex technology in a deceptively simple form. If the importation route were a simple or direct one from a well regulated pharmacy source to consumer that may be one thing but now it is just the Wild West. It is unfortunate and amazing to me that the American public would consider consuming a product that is designed to change or augment the biologic function of the human body (e.g. a drug) from places that they would not even try to drink the water. What a crazy phenomenon. Many pharmacist experts, including myself, agree that at no time since the very early 1900's has the integrity of the of the pharmaceutical supply chain been so porus. Importation is very dangerous. Pharmaceutical products are not simple commodities, they are complex technology in a deceptively simple form. If the importation route were a simple or direct one from a well regulated pharmacy source to consumer that may be one thing but now it is just the Wild West. It is unfortunate and amazing to me that the American public would consider consuming a product that is designed to change or augment the biologic function of the human body (e.g. a drug) from places that they would not even try to drink the water. What a crazy phenomenon.

Many pharmacist experts, including myself, agree that at no time since the very early 1900’s has the integrity of the of the pharmaceutical supply chain been so porus.

]]> By: Tom http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/07/one-dead-canadian-one-raging-debate/#comment-15078 Tom Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:29:36 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/07/one-dead-canadian-one-raging-debate/#comment-15078 So kids lives are more important than adult lives? 1 dead canadian doesn't matter to us? Does anyone really think this is the only death from counterfeit meds? By the way, hasn't the reimportation debate died. When med part D came along, the elderly quit complaining about cost of meds when they didn't have to pay for them. Funny how when it isn't your money you don't care, but that seems to be the case. I think this deserves a look by M Moore. Didn't he tell us how great Canadian medicine was? And one of their own had to go to the internet to get fake meds?????????? Don't tell me someone from Cuba has had to do the same thing?!?! I want a documentary NOW! So kids lives are more important than adult lives? 1 dead canadian doesn’t matter to us? Does anyone really think this is the only death from counterfeit meds? By the way, hasn’t the reimportation debate died. When med part D came along, the elderly quit complaining about cost of meds when they didn’t have to pay for them. Funny how when it isn’t your money you don’t care, but that seems to be the case.

I think this deserves a look by M Moore. Didn’t he tell us how great Canadian medicine was? And one of their own had to go to the internet to get fake meds?????????? Don’t tell me someone from Cuba has had to do the same thing?!?! I want a documentary NOW!

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