Criminal Defense Attorney Analysis of Internet Pharmacy, Prescription, and Drug Law
From the monthly archives:
The US Attorney for Southern District of New York (SDNY) announced yesterday that it had reached a civil settlement with Third Avenue Pharmacy & Surgicals Inc. and its owner for $250,000 resolvingcharges that “the pharmacy filled prescriptions obtained through the Internet outside the course of a legitimate physician-patient relationship.” Specifically, the complaint, filed simulataneously with the settlement, [...]
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As I have mentioned before, there are a variety of internet pharmacy website business models. All of them, of course, have in common the fact that they sell or market prescription drugs or the ability to obtain prescription drugs on the internet. The business models typically vary based on their prescription and/or medical record requirements and [...]
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LegitScript.com’s blog (which I highly recommend) wonders what happens to the domain name of an internet pharmacy website once the owner is convicted. They noticed that the convicted owner of BuyMeds.com, Orlando Birbragher who pled guilty on August 4, 2008, still owns the domain name.
I admittedly have not seen the BuyMeds.com indictment or Mr. Birbragher’s plea deal, but, in [...]
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Douglas W. Bouchey, along with three others, pled guilty to distributing 12 million narcotic pills over the internet while in Dubuque, IA in 2003. According to the Morning Sun, Dough Bouchey:
admitted he was a pharmacist employed by a Dubuque, Iowa pharmacy that contracted with Pharmacon to fill Internet drug orders placed through BuyMeds.com. Bouchey plead guilty [...]
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A recently published Mayo Clinic study compared the safety of ordering prescription medications online versus the traditional physician consultation method. An analysis of most safety variables revealed that the safety of online pharmacies outperformed that of the traditional physical presence consultation method. Specifically, the study found that:
Product Information was provided to online patients 100% of [...]
