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The Latest on Internet Pharmacies, Supplements, Designer Drugs,
and Other High-Risk Merchants
LegitScript Enforcement Efforts: 14,000 Domain Names Shuttered in 2016 (So Far!)
LegitScript tracks trends in the illicit internet pharmacy market on a daily basis, and this includes monitoring the thousands upon thousands of domain names that are used to sell drugs illegally. Considering the mercurial nature of the internet and the frequency of rogue internet pharmacy operators switching criminal network affiliations, abandoning domain names, and transferring…
LegitScript’s State of the Internet Rx Market Illuminates Challenges, Opportunities
LegitScript’s mission is to leave the Internet better than we found it, by helping make it safer, more transparent, and more independent. Much of what we do is in the online healthcare space, where we try to make the Internet pharmacy and health product markets safer and more transparent both for individuals and for businesses.…
Baidu, Jike.com add checks of Internet pharmacies and drug authenticity to their search platforms
Two Chinese search engines, market leader Baidu and state-run Jike.com, have recently taken steps to help Internet users identify counterfeit drugs and fraudulent online pharmacies. Jike.com announced in late February that it created a platform, bgt.jike.com, that allows Chinese citizens to lodge complaints about inferior pharmaceutical products and services. Baidu followed that news by saying…
Internet pharmacy sales land nine people in prison
Nine people were sentenced last month for their roles in illegally distributing controlled substances via Internet pharmacies. Collectively, the defendants forfeited $94 million from the sales of medications including diet pills like phentermine and anti-anxiety drugs such as Xanax and Valium. The convictions were the result of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration. “Prescription…