Posted by Dr. Bob on September 28, 2001, at 18:24:20
In reply to Re: time to set a policy » Dr. Bob, posted by shelliR on September 28, 2001, at 17:44:13
> 1. Is it unequivocally illegal for you as an administrator of a website on American soil to facilitate the exchange of information regarding the procurement of drugs not approved by the FDA?
Not to my knowledge.
> 2. Does facilitating the exchange of e-mail addresses for the purpose of procuring the aforementioned drugs represent a violation of law or of your policy of posting?
See above regarding the former, and yes regarding the latter.
> 3. What about posting a URL to another URL that lists the URLs of sources?
That still would be facilitating.
> If you are discussing a specific drug, e.g. "x has really benefited me, etc. " and the question comes back, "Oh, I never heard of that, where did you get this drug, " is the following answer allowable: "I ordered it online." or "you can get it online, just do a search" unacceptable. No urls of course, just the info to clear up that it is not available from their local drugstore.
Information that general I guess would be OK.
> what about when we have a prescription to order for three months a medication that has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration--(it is apparently legal to do so). "How did you get it". "I got a prescription from my pdoc; I order it off the internet."
That would be OK with me because it's only very general information. But I'm not sure that being OK with the FDA means it would be OK with Customs, which seems to insist on a prescription *and* approval by the FDA.
> Obviously my two questions both are attempting to clarify whether it is okay to say you got something off the internet, without specifically pointing someone is any direction.
Besides to the Internet, you mean. :-)
Bob
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