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Last updated
April 19, 2007
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Canadian, Mexican and Off-Shore Pharmacy Resources
Compiled by Melissa Kaplan
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is a sad fact of life that, even when you can find a physician
to treat your particular CND disease or disorder, you are
then left scrounging around to find enough money to get
your prescriptions filled. If you are like me, there simply
isn't enough money for the prescriptions, prescribed intravenous
treatment, and supplements, herbs, etc., for my gut, mercury
toxicity, pain, cognitive function, hormones, and everything
else that my doctor can write a script for or recommend.
So, along with everything else we must cope with we have
to deal with being chronically under-treated and under-medicated,
a plight shared with all elderly and disabled people surviving
on social security.
With that in mind, here are some resources I've come across. Depending on where you live and where the company is and what the situation is, there may be some legal issues you will need to deal with. By providing this information, I am by no means advocating the breaking of any laws. Important
Notes: Not all drugs may be the same as the drugs dispensed here in the U.S. Aside from the differences in brand and generic names that vary from country to country, there may be less quality control over generics or illicit 'copycat' drugs produced elsewhere. Some sites seem to specialize in certain types or classes of drugs, such as controlled pain and antipsychotic medications, diet medications, Viagra, anabolic steroids. If you are looking for sources for more mundane substances, you may have to wade through several sites before finding sources carrying what you need. Not all foreign pharmacies are equally reputable. This is definitely a case of caveat emptor. Other than as indicated by an asterisk (*), I have not purchased any of these guides nor used any of the sites to purchase medications so please do not write me to ask for personal recommendations. There is are some websites that you can join to get information on online drug sellers, in the U.S. and elsewhere. Many of these sites require a membership fee in order to access the information you are looking for. DrugBuyers.com does provide that information for free, asking that you post your own experience in their forums and add information to their database. You can (and should) check out U.S. Internet pharmacies as well as those outsdie the U.S. Some are bogus, making their own drugs (as this CBS news story in September 2006 details). The National Association of Boards of Pharmacies has US and non-US pharmacy boards and contact information. While you are doing price comparisons for the drugs you need, don't forget to check with your local Costco pharmacy. They do not accept insurance plans, but do charge uniformly lower prices than even many of the local discount pharmacies, and these prices are available to people who are not Costco members. Just walk in, tell the people checking member cards at the door that you are going to the pharmacy, and in you go. You have to pay for your Costco prescriptions by check or cash; they do not accept credit cards, so be prepared. You can call the pharmacy and tell them the drug, strength, and dose you take, and they will give you a price over the phone. Don't bothere using the Costco website for price checking, as the prices there are, for some reason I have yet to fathom, higher than you will actually pay at the store. Canadian
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