Philadelphia Inquirer, The - Canadian drug sales slow
Ann Griffith doesn't fit the stereotype of a criminal. At 81, the Plymouth Meeting resident has been buying the thyroid medication Synthroid for three years from a Canadian Internet pharmacy. She shaved 40 percent off the U.S. price. But from July to September, the Food and Drug Administration detained three of her packages at the Seattle-Tacoma airport.
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Agency letters stopped short of accusing her of breaking the law but required her to write or travel personally to Washington state to prove that the packages were legal. “These laws are designed to protect you,” one letter said. Griffith, who said she never had any health problems with Canadian drugs, scoffed at the agency's actions. “The big drug companies don't want to lose anything,” she said. “That's the whole thing.” Canadian drug sales to U.S. patients like Griffith were once a hot trend. But a variety of factors have stifled this continental …
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