The NY Times gave a brief shout-out to LegitScript’s and Knujon’s report about the availability of anabolic steroids online.

The article said:

“A new report by two Internet watchdog groups has identified hundreds of Web sites that illegally sell anabolic steroids without prescriptions or verifying the age of customers. The report, Pumped Up on the Internet, was issued by the watchdog groups LegitScript.com, which studies online pharmacies, and KnujOn.com, which investigates senders of spam e-mail. It focused on 156 sites that have registered their domain names through American companies but send the steroids from abroad. The report said that while federal drug authorities might lack jurisdiction abroad, the eight American domain registry companies used by these sellers had the legal right and obligation to terminate the rogue pharmacy sites.”

You can download the report here.

Today, LegitScript.com and KnujOn.com teamed up to release a groundbreaking report about steroid abuse, and how websites linked to US-based domain name registrars like eNom, GoDaddy and Dynadot are behind it.

You can download the full report here. And here is the press release.

Have you ever wondered: “Why can’t anybody do anything about rogue Internet pharmacies?” Well, the answer is: the domain name registrars can. We wrote eight of them earlier this month and asked them to take down 150 websites illicitly selling anabolic steroids.

With a few very small exceptions, the domain name registrars declined to take the websites down.

Our report explains why these sites are illegal, why the domain name registrars are contractually able (and in some cases, bound) to take the sites down, and what’s at risk.

We’ll blog more about the report over the next few days.

Today, we are releasing the beta version of our Pharmacy Finder — a “closed universe” search engine that lets you find the right online pharmacy for you. The criteria that you can use to narrow down the field:

1. The state that the pharmacy is licensed in.
2. The kind of pharmacy you are looking for — general, veterinary, compounding, fertility, et cetera.
3. How you want to get your prescription — pick it up, have it mailed, or in some smaller towns, delivered by a local driver.
4. Whether you want to find a pharmacy that will refill a new prescription, or just find one that will let you do refills online.

And soon, we’ll be adding a field that allows you to put in the type of insurance you are using (if any).

Have any feedback? Let us know.

LegitScript was highlighted today in a national report on prescription drug abuse via the Internet. The report is by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, and mentioned LegitScript as one of a handful of organizations working to address the problem of “rogue Internet pharmacies.”

Thanks for the shout-out, CASA!

LegitScript was highlighted today in a national report on prescription drug abuse via the Internet. The report is by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, and mentioned LegitScript as one of a handful of organizations working to address the problem of “rogue Internet pharmacies.”

Thanks for the shout-out, CASA!

LegitScript was highlighted today in a national report on prescription drug abuse via the Internet. The report is by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse:http://www.casacolumbia.org.

LegitScript was highlighted today in a national report on prescription drug abuse via the Internet. The report is by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, and mentioned LegitScript as one of a handful of organizations working to address the problem of “rogue Internet pharmacies.”

Thanks for the shout-out, CASA!