[mustangmona]

Thank you for bringing that up. Almost all these sites are from overseas. Some just tend to be more up front of their location as others.

Who's to say that all these places are not the same company. Anyway, I received my order on Tuesday and they work exactly like the ones I got from my doctor only cheaper.

This is what my bottle says:

Union Pharmacy, Inc. - DEA:BU9704241
13848 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Springs, MD 20904

Doctor: Norbert Seda Olmo, MD

This is what google says:
"UNION PHARMACY INC.",,"13848 OLD COLUMBIA PIKE",,"SILVER SPRING","MD","20904","3013845622"

www.dhmh.state.md.us/pharmacyboard/ downloads/mdbop-rxin.txt - 107k -

This is off the MD state website. It also says the following:

PERMITNO: P04417
PHARMACYNAME: UNION PHARMACY INC
ADDRESS2: 13848 OLD COLUMBIA PIKE
CITY: SILVER SPRING
STATE: MD
ZIP: 20904
PHONE: 301-384-5622
Exp: Dec. 31, 2006
STATUS: ACTIVE

[mustangmona]

ONE MORE THING. THIS IS WHAT I GOT FROM INTERNET DIRECTORY FOR REVERSE NUMBER LOOK UP:

Reverse Telephone Listings
Union Pharmacy

13848 Old Columbia Pike
SILVER SPRING, MD 20904
301-384-5622

IT SHOWS TO BE A TRUE NUMBER AND ADDRESS
http://www.anywho.com/qry/wp_rl

[brioche]

top-dawg,

I am directing this question to you, a pharmacist, regarding phantom/fake prescription drugs. About 2 weeks ago I caught part of a 20/20 episode about underground manufacturers of fake prescription drugs. The drugs are perfect copies of the real thing down to the same exact packaging. Prescription drugs from various pharmacies were randomly tested as to their ingredients. I do not recall everything they found, but do remember cement as an ingredient in one pill and baking soda in another. These were normal town/city pharmacies as well as online pharmacies. The pharmacies were unaware of what they had. The most popular fakes were those that are in high demand, Viagra, some blood pressure meds, and I believe one was a cholesteral drug. The FBI and friends cannot keep up with these underground drug manufacturers. They find them and close them down, but plenty more pop up to take those places.

What do you think the odds are of many of these online pharmacies selling phentermine and such that are fake prescription meds?

Thanks, Brioche

[top-dawg]

Hi brioche,I didn't see that 20/20 segment, so I'm unaware of the details. What are the odds? I wouldn't even attempt a guess. The only thing I can tell you is that I never had that problem in my pharmacy. dawg

[ttkitty]

:-D I mean this in the nicest possible way. Figuring out who owns what and where a pharmacy is located is pointless anyway. From years of ordering stuff online, this is what I've found to be true from my purchases:

A company opens up, selling for example, phentermine and other products. It doesn't even have to be a licensed company or in this country. Just picks a name and that's it.

They put up several websites, each having a different "company name", so you think it's a different company than the last one you clicked on. To sell you their phentermine and keep you coming back over and over again, they have to get it to you quick. So, they pay a doctor who they probably never met to review online medical questionaires and write digital prescriptions or paper fascimiles for hundreds of people everyday. This is all done on computer, in a very comfortable chair I assume. I'd even venture to say some of the medical reviews and approvals are automated, never being seen by a doctor, just flagged if they contain certain identifiers or terms.

Now that a prescription is generated by whatever means they chose, they send it digitally I'm sure to a pharmacy, in this case a "fulfillment house." This is not your average RiteAid type deal most of the time. It's huge. Sometimes it isn't though. There are pharmacies, I was told, that are part of a network for just this type of prescription. You'd have to verify that with top-dawg. But it's sort of like FTD flower deliveries sometimes. They use the nearest physical flower shop and he gets paid even though XYZ generated the sale 1500 miles away. Everybody gets some money! This is what was described to me as one alternative for online pharmacies. Not entirely illegal either. I'm sure some "companies" use one pharmacy fulfillment house for all their prescriptions. And I bet there's even clearing houses that take tons of online prescriptions for hundreds of companies, and they do the legwork so to speak to get it filled for a nice monthly fee.

Anyway, what I was getting at after that ramble :? was there are way too many ways to comlete these sales, and just because the bottle says filled in Maryland doesn't mean the actual "Company" selling you the product is in Maryland. It was filled in Maryland. That's it. Not very hard to understand. You won't most likely be able to walk into a place in Baltimore called "My Little Pharmacy". I think this is what some people expect. I pretty sure it doesn't work that way. WHo cares if its legitimate medication from a licensed doctor and delivered legally? The company in the Caribbean just gets the profits! If it's even a company. Maybe it's just a bank account! :? :smile: Top Dawg, what do you think?

[top-dawg]

HI TTKITTY, I :smt023 :smt023 THINK THAT YOU HAVE IT PRETTY WELL COVERED. :P DAWG :smt024

PM, :razz: ttkitty

[Danethead]

I ordred from mylittlepharmacy on Friday, and it shows that it will be delivered today, but I read on another link that someone got the wrong pills in the bottle even though it was marked Phentermine. Has anyone else had this problem? The delivery on this is great and I didn't pay anything for shipping, but just wanted to check. Let me know. thanks!

[top-dawg]

Hi Danethead, Yes, it has happened twice, the wrong meds were filled and the same 'pharmacy' also filled a script for (60) more pills than they were supposed to have. dawg