In the interest of the publication www.tovima.gr (Step) published below shows the situation by selling counterfeit drugs over the Internet.
The sale of these substances all contain different drugs, but what matters for those who ekgymnazontai using drugs is that pharmaceutical substances including counterfeit anabolic steroids not listed other distributed illegally from various sources to the Internet to dominate in sales.
The phenomenon of selling fake drugs (steroids) has been long hesitate, the main victim of unsuspecting users, posing a dramatic adventures of their health through the use of illegal substances but actually contain chemical elements than the label increasing the risk for people who use them.
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One European in five at risk from counterfeit drugs
Using unaudited preparations, moving primarily through the Internet, posing a serious threat
Saturday, March 6, 2010
GENEVA an illegal and highly efficient paremporio booming from one end of the world: drugs-"monkeys". Preparations sold legally only by prescription, one finds even in gyms and cosmetic shops, but especially on the Internet. And most are fake, as emphasized by the World Health Organization (WHO), beating the alarm.
The latest surveys showed that at least one European in five sets health at risk by using counterfeit medicines and unaudited. The worst suspicions formulations from China, India and Eastern Europe. This is a specialty drug counterfeit preparations facilitated by the Internet and accounts for 10% of the market the drug worldwide, according to estimates by the WHO. And leaves a huge profit, judging from its development: over the years sales proliferate, as evidenced by the seizure of the customs authorities. In 2005, seized 500,000 packs. In 2007, seizures had reached 4 million, according to data collected by the European Commission.
A survey conducted on behalf of the pharmaceutical company Rfizer a sample of 14,000
citizens in 14 European countries shows a turnover of drugs-"monkey" in the order of 10.5 billion euros in Europe alone.
The figures show that one in five Europeans is likely to cause harm to health, since 77 million purchase drugs without prescription. Access via Internet is easy. With a click of the mouse, the prospective buyer find almost everything from food additives as Viagra and anabolic. According to WHO, more than half of the preparations of electronic commerce is counterfeit-let alone those trafficked through illicit channels and sold outside pharmacies. The counterfeit drug is definitely dangerous. Even when they contain the proper active ingredient in the right quantity of missing a key ingredient: quality. The degree of risk depends on the process of falsification.
The most common is the total absence (or inadequacy) of active substance leads to reduced activity of the drug ’monkey’.
In addition, counterfeit medicines are manufactured in facilities deteriorated, with low-cost raw materials, and often contain ingredients other than those listed in its composition, creating risks for severe side effects and toxic reactions which may endanger even life-threatening if you have allergies without his knowledge.
But even when given the right proportion of active substance, much depends on the carriers, that is therapeutically inactive substances finish medicine. If you are different from those of genuine synthesis, affecting the absorption of harmful effects on the body.