WASHINGTON — Online advertisements offering drugs without a prescription will indeed deliver -- though buyers best beware of the product delivered to them, warn critics. Not only are these Internet pharmacies dealing medications illegally, but in many cases the drugs are counterfeit, overpriced and in some cases, dangerous “By ordering online, you’re playing Russian roulette,” said Richard “Bo” Dietl, an ex-New York City detective who now runs a security firm that just completed an extensive investigation of more than 1,400 online druggists. Dietl said he is considering a class action suit on behalf of the victims of illegal online pharmacies, some of whom are children.
Posted by Editor at September 25, 2003 10:33 AM