Consumers ‘playing Russian roulette’ with online drugs


Thousands of consumers are playing 'Russian roulette' with their lives by buying prescription drugs online which may be laced with poisonous chemicals, experts have warned.

The Trading Standards Institute has reported a boom in such sales as people increasingly turn to the Internet to self-diagnose and medicate their ailments.

21 June 2006

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