| Consumers Beware
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| | results? "Hundreds if not thousands of
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| "Over the last decade, the profits to be
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| | people have died," says health economist
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| made in the $150 billion pharmaceutical
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| | Susan Foster of London School of Hygiene
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| market have inspired a new form of
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| | Tropical Medicine. Doctors and
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| forgery: drugs that are not what they
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| | hospitals may themselves unwittingly
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| seem," reports Newsweek. "The names are
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| | dispense the drugs freely. Legitimate
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| familiar," and they include some of the
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| | manufacturers are hardpressed to find a
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| world's best-selling medicines. "The
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| | solution. The drugs often originate in
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| counterfeits look like the real thing,
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| | countries that do not recognize
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| right down to the labels, manufacturers'
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| | international drug patents. Usually,
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| pamphlets and purity seals." But inside
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| | legitimate drug companies keep the
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| they may contain harmful substances, such
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| | problem quite so as to avoid publicity
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| as industrial solvents, sawdust, dirt,
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| | that will scare people away from buying
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| talcum powder, and contaminated water.
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| | their Product. Buyer Beware, Do your
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| Often the doses contained are weak and
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| | research.
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| diluted or completely worthless. The
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