OK To Bring Small Quantities of Prescription Drugs from Canada Now

September 26th, 2006

Congress agreed recently to allow importation of up to a 90-days’ supply of prescription medication from Canada into the U.S.  This practice had been stopped last November, and purchasing over the Internet from Canadian pharmacies is still illegal.

Prices in Canada are between 30% and 80% cheaper for popular brand name drugs. The FDA has protested in the past that drugs from Canada without their approval for U.S. markets may be unsafe for consumers.

In other industrialized nations, brand-name drugs produced in the U.S. are often 35% to 50% cheaper than they are here. Many supporters of re-importing drugs into the U.S. believe American consumers are subsidizing drugs for the rest of the world.

Source: CNN

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