Others may disagree with my statement and that's okay. But, for me, I'm sick and tired of all the scams where people get rich because people are sick.
You may not realize it, barbc56, but the get rich scam at patients' expense is actually the artificially elevated drug prices of Western pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies.
A lot of these lower-price but high quality online pharmacies like goldpharma.com etc are constantly being targeted and hassled by a bully boy organization called
LegitScript, which I criticize at the end of the first post in
this thread.
LegitScript was set up by Western pharmaceutical companies to make life as difficult as possible for online pharmacies selling cheaper genetic drugs made in non-Western pharmaceutical manufacturing plants.
Easy assess to lower-price generics from non-Western countries would eat into the profits of Western pharmaceutical companies, so they set up LegitScript to try to prevent this easy access.
LegitScript use all sorts of dubious legal tactics to try to get these lower-price online pharmacies closed down, or to restrict which countries they can mail pharmaceuticals to, or just generally cause trouble for these lower-price pharmacies.
LegitScript have caused problems for several online pharmacies I regularly use.
LegitScript is essentially a market protectionism device funded by the Western pharmaceutical industry, which tries to thwart fair competition between Western and non-Western pharmaceutical manufacturing services. This is against all normal fair competition policies.
Now I know that Western pharmaceutical companies have to recoup the high research and development investments they make into new drugs; and I know that in the USA in particular, pharmaceutical companies have to pay out very high amounts of legal compensation whenever a drug is found to cause severe side effects or death, and this is definitely one of the reasons why drug prices are highest in USA, even compared to Europe (the legal compensation awards to patients are not as high in Europe, or Canada of that matter).
So I can understand why Western pharmaceutical companies are worried about money, and don't want to see easy access to cheaper generic drugs from non-Western manufacturers.
However, don't try to tell me that it is the cheap online pharmacies that are engaged in a scam. It is much more the Western pharmaceutical companies and their bully boy LegitScript who are pulling a fast one here.
And remember that in many countries, drugs are available without prescription, so if the online pharmacy is based in such a country, depending on the exact details of the law, it is perfectly legitimate for them to sell drugs without a prescription.