Online Diet Pill Peddlers Proscuted

$33.6 million in nine months. That's the amount of money funneled through a single on-line pharmacy. Two Doctors have now been indicted due to approving prescriptions without seeing anyone in person.

Prosecutors said more people could be charged in the case. They said five doctors approved more than 350,000 prescriptions from September 2003 to May 2004.

For those who have seen such sites - it's a simple process to order (often at discount prices) any form of prescription medication. Many of the popular drugs sold are weight loss medications such as phentermine or adipax.

Some of these drugs are habit forming and have side effects that should be taken into careful consideration. The on-line ordering process quickly subverts such precautions.

Could this be the beginning of the end for these kinds of sites?

Wouldn't it be great if spam emails for pills began to dry up...?

I think I just saw a pig fly past my window.

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Nayim August 3, 2006 06:46 AM
I personally am glad to see this action being taken. Companies offering 'quick fixes' are just latching onto peoples problems to make a quick buck. I've yet to see a diet pill/product that actually works in the long term, what's really needed to lose weight is a change in lifestyle.

Having said that these pills could be used by people in desperate need of a slight short term change to give them a boost to succeed in long term weight loss....but these pills/products aren't marketed with that message.