Are Bad Drugs Coming to a Pharmacy Near You?
In "The Third Man," the brilliant, shadowy, 1949 film, Orson Welles' character, Harry Lime, is a morally bankrupt, cynical racketeer and dealer of black-market, diluted penicillin.
Purveyors of fake or diluted drugs are no less detestable today than they were six decades ago, but the business has grown to frightening proportions. The highly professional and widespread counterfeiting of drugs increasingly casts doubt on what will actually be in your next vial of pills, especially if you buy them from abroad over the Internet.
By Dr. Henry I. Miller
04 October 2006