DrugBuyers.Com: US OP Requiring No Consultations

Well, many of the ones that stick closer to law require at least a phone interview by a doctor before they will sell you the med. And then in theory a follow up call with the new consultation every three months.

But to your point even these, I believe, at best "dance" around the law. They may indeed "technically" not be in violation of, at least the federal and for now anyway, most state laws as they are currently written. They most surely, however, are in violation of the whole doctor-patient relationship that is, speaking in strictly legal terms here, according the FDA, supposed to exist when medications that are not available over the counter are prescribed.

The availability of prescription meds on the internet and exactly what is needed to obtain them is still a bit up in the air legally now.

U.S. online only consultation with no fee each time OPs still exist. Although many of the ones that offer things like Hydro's are a bit "shady" and they are getting fewer by the moment.... Generally, however, you pay higher than normal prices on meds at these OP's and a percentage goes to the "doctor" (note the quotes).

This is the closest you will find to IOP's which require no consultation at all. Some IOP's, by the way, especially in countries like Canada but also Western Europe and Australia that have similar prescription laws and as vigorous enforcement of them, are starting to require some type of online-consultation as well. Also pressure by the Feds on countries that care and are friendly to the U.S. to crack down on their on own OPs has influenced this as well.

This is a topic for another area of this board I know, but you have to remember no one could even imagine the internet and the increased accessibility to meds it brought when prescription drug laws were written.

In the U.S., selling Schedule II meds (like Oxycontin) on-line seem fairly clearly to be in violation of federal law as it stands now. But things get fuzzy when you get into less restricted meds.

It's still being worked out in our state and federal legislatures. Which is why its important to contact your local representatives and get your voice heard if you believe in some type of online consultation availability otherwise most of us could be left with no option other than IOPs (and, in most cases anyway, breaking the law for sure).

Edited by nycalt (07/02/04 04:42 AM)