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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Study: Drug addiction can be easily sold on the Internet





. More than three quarters sites that sell drug addiction are not asking for medical prescription written by the sale of such medicines, this has been the subject of a recent study has been published recently.

. Strong painkillers such as morphine and Alaoxhexodon and stimulants such as amphetamines are part of banned substances and controlled by the Drug Control Agency due to a reliable and highly addictive. . But the study conducted at Columbia University explained that these drugs can be purchased easily on the Internet.


". "Any person at any stage of age can buy dangerous drugs and addiction are largely through the Internet," said Joseph Stefano, President of Columbia National Center on Addiction and the misuse of material, which was published fifth annual report on the acquisition of the drug on the Internet.

. Among the 365 sites sell materials placed under surveillance and onto the ban, researchers found that 85% of these sites did not require any prescriptions for the sale of such material.

. Slipped number of sites that sell various drugs on the Internet by 37% over last year, the researchers said that the reason for this was the security campaigns carried out by counter-narcotics to counter trade and smuggling of drugs through the Internet.

She said the fight against drugs that about 80% of the requests for drugs on the Internet was banned narcotic substances, compared with only 11% in regular pharmacies.

. Ratified by the Senate in Bejaia 2008 law that bans the delivery of drugs and illegal drugs through the Internet without a prescription written, but the law is still under application.

. The proposed anti-drug unit last month that allowing doctors to write prescriptions on the Internet through a special programme. Program, which will replace the prescriptions written would allow doctors to send a request medicines directly to the site of the sale of medicines.

Hume, such as insurance companies and oth

er major companies such as Wal-Mart stores will be met in order to allow the medical descriptions on the Internet. They say that the recipes on the Internet is an easy way to avoid mistakes that could occur in the distribution of medicines and also will limit the misuse and therefore will reduce the expenses of medical care.

Many doctors reject such charges because of modern technology purchased and installed high. And facilitating the way for the application of this technology experts expect that many physicians embraced this new principle to reduce the risks of drugs.



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