Me and a friend have been searching this question for days and we were also concidering the PROs and CONs. We're specifically looking at the CONs but we can't figure out what's so bad about prescription drugs from foreign countries. HELP!
2006-11-29 03:45:08 · 9 answers · asked by mystic_firefly43 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
because the u.s. companies don't like the competition. no other reason! because we can sue the foreign companies unlike the u.s. where you have the Conservatives passing tort reform laws making it impossible to sue them for gross negligence in case you have not followed any news lately about the big American pharmaceutical companies and their false FDA studies!
2006-11-29 03:47:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The American Pharmaceutical Industry is a Multi-Billion Dollar business. When people buy their medications from Mexico or Canada the CEO's of these companies who earn multi-million dollar salaries get a little perturbed. It's the same in the oil industry. That is why it has taken so long for car companies to make alternative fuel vehicles like the car that runs on Hydrogen from H2O. You see they haven't figured out a way they can get filthy rich on water. Get it?
Check out this link on the Hydrogen Vehicle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle
2006-11-29 12:01:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The legal drugs that we used in the USA have to be approved first by the USDA, to make sure it is safe. In the third world countries like Mexico, they don't have this controls. They don't even have laws to regulated their medicine and if they have them they don't implement them. They are very relax with their laws and this is the reason that we the USA can't take any chances with these so called legal drugs. The laws in the USA concerning medicine is very rigorous and the best in the world. So don't trust any medicine that is not approved by our US institutions, play it safe is your life.. You have a good one..
2006-11-29 11:54:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's no longer illegal for people to bring prescription drugs from Canada.. there are restrictions to it.. but it is now legal... as far as other countries.. you don't know what is in that drug..there rules may not be as strict as ours.. so maybe you need heart medicine and to save a few bucks for themselves they give you an antidepressant- you don't know... what if it's poison and you bring it into his country.. you don't know
2006-11-29 11:52:22 · answer #4 · answered by katjha2005 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Generally because a large proportion of those drugs do not contain the ingredients they claim to.
There is a huge problem of counterfeit drugs being imported into this country.
2006-11-29 13:09:25 · answer #5 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The FDA is trying to protect the American people from abusing these substances.
Also you do not want to pay big bucks for something that might kill you .
There are a lot of American pharmacies selling FDA approved medication online
http://www.drugsinfo.us/ and many more
2006-12-01 10:40:49 · answer #6 · answered by VISA666 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems as if this law was passed to prop up the profits for drug companies.
2006-11-29 11:47:26 · answer #7 · answered by maggiepirsq 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because its not regulated. there is no guarntee that what the drug says it is, is infact actually that. And because then the US loses money on it too cause they are greedy
2006-11-29 11:48:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
because we don't know the substance that they contain and if they will be harmful to us or not
2006-11-29 11:51:56 · answer #9 · answered by Ms.Budonkadonk 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋