“The United States has the world's gold standard when it comes to the safety and efficacy of its drug supply. Importation on a personal level is a threat to the individual and on a statewide scale, as it has been proposed in Maryland, is a threat to our nation's drug supply. Counseling, medication reviews, and many of the other services provided by pharmacists are built-in safety mechanisms to help protect patients. Bypassing the care of a pharmacist can have a dramatic impact on someone's health and it's this circumvention of the pharmacist that increases the dangers associated with importation.”
“It's a bad idea. These medications come from all over the world. They come without FDA [federal Food and Drug Administration] approval. Some come from countries that are known for making substandard or counterfeit medications. The safety of the American drug supply is in question.”
