Public Secrets of drug dealers ' illegal sale of prescription drugs

Domestic laws and regulations expressly prohibit the sale of prescription drugs online, however, "the first financial daily" survey found that, including anticancer drugs Iressa, treatment of Ed drugs, Viagra (commonly known as "" ") and other prescriptions in the Golden Elephant net, Jing dong good Pharmacists, happy people online pharmacies, the new Reiter network, such as well-known pharmaceutical dealers on the website are available for sale, Patients can order directly without prescription.

"(Online pharmacies sell prescription drugs) This is a secret that is known in the industry. Yesterday, Qin, general manager of the 1 Health Network of the group, told reporters.

One side is the regulation, side is the profit, the domestic medicine electricity trader is treading the policy red line to sell the medicine.

Anti-ED drug network selling

Recently, Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, has announced the sale of viagra in the US. Pfizer's intention is to strengthen the sniper against counterfeit Viagra, but the news to the domestic but prompted the "internet sales viagra is legitimate" discussion.

Lu Ping, former director of the anti-Suppository quality division of Bayer Healthcare, said that in the United States, it is legal for online pharmacies to operate prescription drugs. 1999 National Pharmacy Council Association began to authenticate online pharmacies, through certified online pharmacies can obtain the right to sell prescription drugs on the internet, and each of the drugs sold must show a "membership health Care Group" and insurance company certification and guarantee certificates can be operated.

Viagra is not allowed to be sold online as a prescription drug, but online pharmacies are flooded with Viagra sales information, and many qualified online pharmacies are selling directly. The reporter inquires the gold elephant net, Jing Dong good pharmacist, happy person on-line pharmacy, hundred Ji new Reiter net and so on the domestic well-known medicine electricity merchant website, found all have Viagra and so on the prescription drug display and the sale.

A senior person in Guangzhou, a medical and electronic business, told the newspaper as far as he knows, Viagra sales in the electric business channel has reached 10,000 tablets a day, "some of the more compliant online pharmacies only show Viagra products and prices on the website, the proposed buyers to the physical pharmacies to buy, but many online pharmacies can still directly purchase the order." said the person.

"In fact, Pfizer China has not authorized any organization to allow it to sell viagra on the Internet," Xiqing, Pfizer's director of corporate communications in China, said to the newspaper. ”

The Guangzhou industry analysis, the reason viagra in the network sales market, one is the treatment of Ed drugs themselves market capacity is large enough; second, the prices of online pharmacies generally than physical pharmacies to preferential; Moreover, many Ed patients are embarrassed to buy in pharmacies. "Not only Viagra, like Hilly, Aladar and other similar drugs in the pharmaceutical dealers are very popular." ”

An open secret in the industry?

Qin revealed that online pharmacies sell prescription drugs is "the industry knows the secret", and the Drug Supervision Department's judgment standard appears comparatively "extensive": a judgment standard is the prescription medicine cannot have "the shopping cart"; second, the online pharmacy's invoicing record cannot have the prescription medicine, this involves the database, needs the spot inspection.

And in order to circumvent the above two restrictions, our correspondent found that the domestic small-scale medical electric Shangdou adopted a clever approach to achieve "online sales, Offline distribution": To Happy people online pharmacies, for example, the Web page has a variety of prescription drugs, including viagra clear product display and shopping guide, but no direct "into the shopping cart" one, but to show "This product is a prescription drug, can not directly under the single" hint, however, buyers can be online customer service or 400 orders order, the website backstage Register the purchaser information, online payment by the offline Happy person entity drugstore distribution.

The online best-selling far more than the anti-Ed drugs, cardiovascular, anti-tumor and other major diseases of the drug also online very market. The new Reiter network is a well-known online pharmacy, the site of a variety of prescription drugs have, and the price than in hospitals and pharmacies to buy concessions. To AstraZeneca star Anticancer drug Iressa as an example, the specification for 0.25GX10 tablets/box membership price is 5000 yuan, compared to hospitals and physical pharmacies to buy a cheap 500 yuan.

"These prescriptions are expensive and generally not in the health insurance reimbursement catalogue, where patients buy more money on the internet and drive the online shopping market directly." "The Guangzhou industry personage pointed out that has the market to have the power, the medicine electricity trader is treading the policy red line illegal sale prescription medicine."

"No problem good to do, out of the question, the online pharmacy is to bear the legal responsibility, like a hospital for people to see a doctor, whether there is business qualification after the accident is very important." "Qin thinks. According to incomplete statistics, by the State administration of Food and Drug Administration approved by the Internet drug transactions with the qualification of more than 50 pharmaceutical companies.

Yesterday, CCTV reported that a box of more than 20,000 yuan of advanced anticancer drugs "Gleevec", on a website price is low to 10 percent. Village Doctor Xu Guibai leukemia, Cure spent all the savings, then the net bought the medicine, ate six months invalid, open the capsule just found, inside all is starch.

What worries the industry is that there are still a number of online "black pharmacies" selling large amounts of prescription drugs of dubious origins that could detonate serious adverse events and threaten the entire pharmaceutical and electrical business. "Like Iressa, Tarceva and other anticancer drugs, the internet has the Indian version, there are completely counterfeit, patients are difficult to distinguish between true and false, it is easy to recruit." "People in the industry are worried about the dangers of selling prescription drugs to websites," he said.