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BLACKMARKET PHARMACISTS

Local pharmacists may be filling too many prescriptions with drugs knowingly or unknowingly bought from underground blackmarket pharmaceutical dealers for half the price of genuine pharmaceuticals then turn around and sell them to you at full retail prices! Drugs that should be kept refrigerated may not be and expiration dates, quality control and general cleanliness during the filling of prescriptions may too often be non-existant!

Hidden cameras have caught pharmacists wiping their noses and even sneezing on pills while counting out pills for prescriptions! Pharmacists have allso been convicted of selling "water-down" cancer medications for cash! Corrupt pharmacists are lining their pockets with profits from the sale of potentially contaminated and watered-down pills and medications.

Blackmarket drugs typically come from corrupted hospital pharmacists and hospital workers who simply steal drugs from hospitals and, to date, no one seems to be able to stop the flow!

Secondly, these drugs reach the pujblic via the U.S. government's Medicare and Medicaid programs! For example, a Medicaid patient may get a prescription filled which may cost the patient next to nothing. The patient then turns around and sell the drugs to a blackmarket neighborhood dealer. This dealer then sells it back to a crooked pharmacist at below cost and the crooked pharmacist sells it to you at full retail price while the U.S. government pays for everything These dealers are not typically young people either. One grandfather was caught and confessed he had been dealing blackmarket drugs to crooked pharmacists for 30 years!

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: ABC-TV PRIMETIME LIVE 9/17/97

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