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Turnover of Fabricated Medicaments to Exceed Drug Sales
The fabricated medicaments that have recently filled developing markets pose a deathly threat to the humans, warn the report of Narcotics Control Board based in Vienna. Up to 50 percent of all medicaments sold without prescriptions there are fake, the report says.
Moreover, the excessive use of such pills will soon exceed the drug traffic worldwide, the report of the drug watchdog emphasizes. In some regions of Europe, Africa and South Asia, the sales of false medicaments are well above heroine, cocaine, ecstasy. As to the United States, the abuse of false medicaments is the second only to marijuana there.
In view of the above, the Narcotics Control Board recommends the governments to improve actual application of existing laws and to come up with new acts that would stop illegal sales of the medicine via the Internet. Besides, the United Nations and the World Health Organization are expected to help member states oppose distributors of such medicaments if the member states have no resources of their own to tackle this problem.
In addition to Internet, the key sources of fake drug distribution are courier services, mail and local markets. Another difficulty is the impossibility to get adequate data on the problem, as the exact size of fake sales isn’t known to authorities of quite a number of countries, the report specifies.
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