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Posted by Abby on January 4, 2006, at 9:04:46
Canadian ones.
I've been put on lamictal and am interested in ordering it from Canada, since it's generic there. I knwo that several brand name drug companies have threatened to restrict the supply of drugs to Canada to prevent reimportation into the U.S. But I don't think that this should be a problem, since I'd be looking to buy generic lamotrogine.
I'm interested in figuring out the appropriate protocols to do this on the up and up. Right now I'm seeing a resident in a hospital-based clinic who may not be as familiar with this stuff as some older docs. So, I'd liek to be able to spell out the procedures and provide good documentation.
Posted by CamW on January 14, 2006, at 15:14:48
In reply to Question for Cam or other pharmacists--especially, posted by Abby on January 4, 2006, at 9:04:46
Abby - Buying drugs from Canada requires a Canadian doctor to sign the prescription, as prescriptions filled in any Province requires the signature of a doctor who is licenced to practise in that province. Mail-order pharmacies often have a doctor on staff who will co-sign a prescription from a U.S. doctor, circumventing the law. While this makes the prescription legal, the practise in not considered ethical.
Both physician and pharmacy associations in Canada discourage this practise and the is legislation in the works to try to stop it. The associations are trying to pass some sort of legislation that would require a doctor to actually "see" the patient for whom they are prescribing medication (go figure), but then this brings up the issue of prescribing to patients in remote areas of Canada via tele-medicine (prescribing via closed circuit TV or via the internet).
So, as of now it is technically legal to order meds from Canadian Internet Pharmacies, but the practise is considered unethical.
I hope that this is of some help. I am not really up on all the intricacies and details, though. - Cam
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