Buying Drugs On The Net Can Adversely Affect Your Body, Doctors Warn

Buying drugs on the Internet can seriously damage your health, warn doctors.

British doctors have issued a stark warning to people who buy medicines over the Internet after it emerged one in four has treated patients made ill by them.

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According to docs, people face a "minefield" when it comes to purchasing online, with many sites offering fake medicines and promoting online doctors and advisers who have no professional qualifications.

A poll of 423 doctors for GP newspaper found 25 per cent have treated patients for adverse reactions caused by medicines bought over the Internet, reports The Scotsman.

Dr Sarah Jarvis, a GP and spokeswoman for the Royal College of GPs, said: "Surveys looking at many online medications suggest that the proportion of counterfeits is enormously high and that many of them contain very worrying ingredients."

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Dr Bill Beeby, prescribing lead for the British Medical Association's GPs' committee, said: "When it comes to buying drugs on the internet, it is a minefield.

"People just don't know what they'd be getting. I wouldn't advise any of my patients to go down that route."

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