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It seems like everything has gone the way of the fast and the easy. Food goes from a fryer into a sack. Groceries can be delivered to your house without ever having to leave your living room. Drugs can be purchased online, no prior prescription needed.

Wait a minute. Prescription drugs can be purchased online without a prescription? Are there actually pharmacies that will do that? Unfortunately the answer is yes. The spread of online pharmacies, and the convenience and ease that they provide, have opened the door to a wide variety of online dealers that are happy to provide prescription drugs without the added inconvenience of having to go to the doctor and actually get a prescription.

How do they get away with that? The whole concept of no prescription needed prescription drugs sounds fishy. But it is not always the case. A majority of the companies that offer unregulated access to these drugs are legitimate overseas operations that are not bound by the same restrictions as those operating out of the United States. They do not have the regulatory agencies that operate stateside, therefore they are free to distribute their products more freely.

There are definite advantages to being able to buy drugs on a 'no prescription needed' basis. If you have a prescription you have to take daily, such as birth control or allergy medication, that doesn't require close monitoring by your physician and you don't have the time or money to go back to the doctor you don't have to go without your drug until you can. If you have a physician that will not refill a prescription for you because of personal policies in spite of the fact that you know the drug to be effective, instead writing you a prescription for a drug you'd rather not take, you can discard the prescription and take the drug you prefer.

Of course, all of these are acting under the assumption that you already have a prescription that has been approved by your physician. The risks to 'no prior prescription needed' drugs is that you don't have to have your physician's approval to buy a drug online. This means that highly addictive narcotics, such as Darvocet and Oxycodone, can be purchased at will. It also means that the chances of a negative drug interaction between various prescriptions increases exponentially, since an online retailer is not going to have any kind of record of the drugs you are currently using or have used in the past that could negatively impact the drugs you are taking now.

Additionally, many of the countries that are offering these drugs lack the regulatory agencies of the United States. That means that you have no assurance that the drugs you are ordering have been made through as pure a process as possible, nor that they are actually made of what they claim.
Before going out and blindly trying to order prescription drugs online without a prescription, it is recommended you visit a 'pharmacy resource site' that keeps a database of which pharmacies are to be trusted, and which ones are legitimate.