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Cement-based steroids, paint-based supplement: the online drug fraud.

4 Italians in 10 purchase medicines online.

There is no active principle in 1 drug out of 3, wrong or different dosage in 1 out of 5, in at least a dozen there are harmful impurity, from arsenic to cement.

This would happen if we purchased medicines online and not on authorized online drugstores which shown the ministerial certificate.

Pharmacists and urologists highlighted this during the convention held in Rome called “a virus to get rid of”, which was promoted by xxxxxxxxxxxx Few inspections The figures at the convention are alarming: first of all, according to a report by Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco in collaboration with the University La Sapienza in Rome, the number of those willing to purchase medicines online is growing, and it seems that 4 Italians in 10 would do it.

43% of them consider online drugstores a trustworthy way to buy drugs.

Those who admit to have done online purchases are just 10%, but it’s striking to find out that only the term pharmacy on a website wins the consumers over.

Very few people check whether the drugstore is on the reliable drugstore list made by the ministry.

These are recognizable since they have a quality label which everybody should know.

People are not aware of the risks they might run into when they make purchases online – Mirone, head of xxxx, said.

Products purchased through illegal channels are very dangerous for our health because they are produced in location without any previous control.

The confiscated drugs always show anomaly as well as alterations which jeopardise their efficacy, but above all the safe use.

On the contrary, the traditional chain is subjected to so many controls that, in the end, the percentage of falsified drug is nought.

From arsenic to rat poison This phenomenon is difficult to contain.

In 2016 more than 20,000 illegal drugstores were located and shut down and 6,000 were blocked.

But it’s also true that new sites are sprouting like mushrooms; In less than a week, in June 2016, the police, during the operation Pangea IX which involved 13 Italian airports, confiscated 1,271 packages containing 80000 falsified medicaments, but principally dangerous ones.

Researches carried out on the alleged medicaments showed that 31% of the drugs didn’t contain anything at all, and 1 in 5 of them the active principle is different from what declared or the dose is wrong, there is an excess or a lack.

Only 1% of the online medicaments is “right, and it’s alarming that the 8.5% contains dangerous impurity, from arsenic, rat poison, powered plaster, cement to road paint.

Male clientele At the top of the most online products sold, reaching a turnover of 60% 70%, medicaments for erectile dysfunction followed by steroids and diet pills stand out.

This is a very male-oriented market.

The strong demand of Viagra and suchlike sold on parallel channels is the result of the patient with erectile dysfunction’s embarrassment, and somewhat of the assumption they can improve their sexual performances.

Many young people buy these things and at the same time consuming the blue pill along with hard drugs or alcohol, so that the side effects grow exponentially.

Watch out for purchases in sexy shops.

Thanks to some investigations it’s been discovered that these shops bought fake Viagra pills online and sell them to their clients, generally as supplements or natural herbs with miraculous effect.

They did this to bypass the rules since sexy shops are not allowed to sell such substances.