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>Paper: Black Market Drugs Undercut Safety > >WASHINGTON (AP)--Illegal trade in pharmaceuticals has >undercut the safety of the United States' system of >distributing prescription drugs, The Washington Post >reported. > >As a result, the Post said Sunday editions, many >Americans are getting medication that is dangerous, >watered-down or entirely ineffective. > >In the first installment of a five-part series based >on a yearlong investigation, the Post newspaper said: > >• ``Networks of middlemen, felons and other >opportunists operating out of storefronts and garages >fraudulently obtain deeply discounted medicines >intended for nursing homes and hospices. ... Those >drugs are ultimately sold to unwitting patients.'' > >• Counterfeiters ``use pill-punching machines and >special inks to produce near-perfect copies of the >most popular and expensive drugs.'' > >• ``Pharmaceutical peddlers take advantage of lax >regulations to move millions of prescription drugs >into the United States from Canada, Mexico and >elsewhere.'' > >• ``Rogue medical merchants set up Internet pharmacies >that serve as pipelines for narcotics, selling to drug >abusers and others who never see doctors in person or >undergo tests.'' > >Altogether, the Post reports, the underground market >for pharmaceuticals constitutes ``a new form of >organized crime that now threatens public health.''

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