Bill aims to curb online pharmacy information provider sales
Unsolicited e-mails arrive daily across America offering cheap, quick access to prescription drugs. Without ever seeing a doctor, people can use the Internet to have drugs prescribed and shipped to their homes by a "licensed U.S. pharmacy."
That is the claim of one of hundreds of Internet sites that will sell drugs to people who have no prescription when they sign on. The price may be right, but the practice is dangerous, say two lawmakers who are proposing legislation that aims to curb growing online sales.
"Too many people are finding ways to obtain medications online without a valid prescription," Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., said Thursday at a hearing on the bill he introduced with Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
Their legislation would prohibit domestic Internet sites from writing and filling prescriptions without seeing patients. It also would give states the authority to ask federal courts to help shut down Internet pharmacies based in other states and require Internet sites to list names and other information for their pharmacists and physicians.
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