Online Prescriptions? Good Grief!

If you listen to the radio, surf the Internet, or watch television, you might have heard a pitch for a discreet way to treat sexual problems, hair loss, even depression and anxiety: just visit their website. These are not pitches for supplements or other non-traditional treatments; they’re for medications that can fix your problem.

Don’t you need a prescription for those? Yes, and you can have a confidential chat online with a physician to get one for the solution to your problem. The “examination” may just be the answers to a few questions about your health or more detailed if the issue is more complex. But when it’s done, you get the prescription and can order it for discrete delivery, right to your door.

Online medical examinations? No. They’re simply a review of symptoms in order sell you a medication. What could go wrong? We don’t know yet because there’s no research that’s examined the issue. If a man wants a drug for erectile dysfunction and isn’t truthful about medications or cardiac issues, that could prove to be fatal. There are also problems with non-traditional uses for medications such as using a beta-blocker, typically prescribed for high blood pressure, for performance anxiety. Again, what could go wrong? So, so much.

What are you prepared to do today?