Monday, May 2, 2011

fake drugs continued

Today I watched a video about a man named Frank who is in the European Union and he is aiming at taking the fake drugs off the market. He has a brain tumor and had a  98% chance of dying but he has been defying the odds for years. He konws that if he gets the wrong dosage and/or the wrong drug these are powerful drugs and he could die from that. Even when you buy your perscription drugs from the pharmacy there is still a 1% chance that it is not the real deal, if you order online it is a 1 in 2 chance of getting a fake drug. According to the WHO the World Health Organization a fake drug is defined as a drug made by anyone besides the actual manufacturer with the aim to fraud or deceive someone. Now the parliment is trying to shut down all of the bogus websites and increase the punishment for people caught selling them. People like Frank look at these fake drugs as attempted murder. Not only could he get too much but if he doesn't get enough he could die too. There are millions if not billions of people who need medication that are at risk.

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