DrugBuyers.Com: New Customs Seizures

Hi, Mayhem~
This is a "rant" I posted in another thread, but decided it was the wrong place for it. It was brought on by a reference to a TechTV show regarding online pharmaceutical buying.

While there are hazards at all times when taking medications, it really peeves me that the US has, once again, set themselves up as the end-all and be-all of what's best in the world. Gee, how *do* those poor Europeans, Africans, MiddleEasterns, Asians, Australians and NewZealanders survive without the US's FDA?

It is all-too-often forgotten that the US was not the leader in medical research, teaching, and health-care delivery up until perhaps the past 40 years. It is perhaps unknown to USers that European pharmaceutical companies don't all suck the consumer completely dry with exorbitant prices, nor do they necessarily produce inferior/dangerous medications. The FDA, while it has its uses, is also a tool of those who make mighty big profits, and it is once again attempting to make miserable those who cannot afford other medications, ongoing health care (doctors' fees are incredibly high), or those who just are sick and tired of being suckered by the system. I'm really quite glad my career in the medical field is finished after 30 years, because it was getting embarrassing to be part of it.

Okay. My rant is over and I'll go back to lurk mode.

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