Don’t Risk Your Safety with Medicines with Unsafe Sources

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Medicine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) comprehensive drug approval process are considered the safest in the world. The U.S.’s closed distribution system keeps medicine counterfeiters and fakers out of pharmacies and away from patients.

Medicines in countries without the systemic oversight of an agency like the FDA suffer from pervasive counterfeit and substandard drug problems. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 10 percent of medicines worldwide – and up to 50 percent of the drugs consumed in developing nations – are counterfeit.  FDA oversight and enforcement of laws protect patient safety; keeping dangerous counterfeits out of the U.S.  

It is possible to lower your prescription drug prices by price comparing VIPPS pharmacies, which are online pharmacies that only sell FDA-approved medication. Learn the ways you can save safely from pharmacies that sell legitimate, safe medication in the US.

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By S. Imber