Generic Drugs – Are There Counterfeit Generic Medications?
Generic Drugs – Are There Counterfeit Generic Medications? A comment and question from a reader: Dr. Mike, I’m afraid of generic drugs and would prefer to cut my budget somewhere else and get the real drug and hope that I am not about to swallow a counterfeit drug made in the dark back streets of China and sold to a dishonest drug merchant and then to unsuspecting pharmacies. What are your thoughts? Answer: Although counterfeit medications are a problem, I’m not sure that I agree with your assumption about the threat of these “bad” medications winding up in U.S. pharmacies. Ordering online from a disreputable pharmacy (either American or foreign) does put you at risk for getting a counterfeit drug. However, the chance of that happening in a local drugstore in the United States is minimal. In fact, many generic medications are made in the United States or by the same drug companies that make brand name drugs. The