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Buying safe medicine online is more challenging than one may think. Only 3 percent of online pharmacies are safe and legal, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
There are many tricks the shady websites use in order to lure you in and make you think they are safe by, for example, presenting themselves as legitimate Canadian companies. But Libby Baney, the director of the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies, says even if you see Canada in the name, beware, because you have no idea where those drugs actually originate.
“The World Health Organization has found that one in two medicines, or 50 percent, sold online are counterfeit. It’s hugely dangerous. There is boric acid, lead, highway paint in these medicines,” Baney told ABC News’ “20/20.” “And the medicines they are selling you aren’t coming from Canada.”
The most common sources of the drugs, she says, include Turkey, Russia, China and India.
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