An example, of this is someone goes on a discussion board and says my compounding pharmacy requires that I make 10,000 a month...not matter what I have to do to make it. This statement might mean nothing, but then again it could mean a lot. Another example, a pharmacy claims it doesn't not engage in false advertising but then a search shows the pharmacy has made some statements or promises on a discussion board that might be considered false advertising.
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Friday, November 1, 2013
Question of the Day November 1, 2013 From a former criminal assistant united states attorney standpoint, I do not find it shocking at all what evidence of guilt or liability is in plain sight on the Internet available to the general public; Remember once on the Internet the information is never gone even if you think it is. My questions is are people just that bold and really waving a red flag just daring someone to come get them, do they not care, or are they just not smart enough to know any better?
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A simple but great reminder to us adults. We preach this to our kids but fail to follow our own advice.
Sue, look up the Wikipedia page on "Quack Miranda Warning". It is worth making a post on it exclusively.
To answer this question:
1. People are "bold", not in an attempt to get the criminal justice system to come after them, but because the criminal justice system RARELY DOES come after them. Every day that goes by that nothing bad happens to that individual emboldens them further. Seeing dozens, scores, hundreds, actually THOUSANDS of other people businesses out there doing the same illegal things emboldens them more.
For example, we all know "there is no legal OTC version of HCG" (www.FDA.gov/hCG). But there are thousands of google hits (and ads) touting OTC hCG drops, etc.
When you let the small crimes pass, it emboldens people to do even bigger crimes, being open and brazen about it.
2. These people also "do not care". Gary Osborn is "under house arrest" for his crimes, but it is a $1.6 million mansion, with a swimming pool, satellite TV, Netflix,and guests to visit him whenever he wants to hold a "Great Gatsby Party" (an apprpriate analogy since Gatsby made his money during Prohibition by selling "medicinal" whisky "legally" through the drugstores he owned).
3. And lastly, many of them are not smart enough, not just to know better, but not smart enough to REALIZE THE POTENTIAL HARM TO PATIENTS' HEALTH by their actions. An unlicensed person who opens up a compounding pharmacy, hires a "semi-retired" pharmacist to be his "pharmacist-in-charge", even though he never shows up, and then mixes sterile/injectable drugs (usually anabolic steroids, growth hormone secretagogues, and other hormones), doesn't realize how dangerous it is. RE-READ the inspection report for REJUVI pharmacy, and you will be horrified about how dangerous things are.
So I choose "D - All of the above."
Kenneth Woliner, MD
www.holisticfamilymed.com
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