Pill Popping To Get Pretty
Posted by: Nina Carbone
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4:30PM, Tuesday September 1st 2009
Everyone knows that prescription pills are available to anyone looking for them, if you know how to search online. Not that it’s a legal means—but abusing prescription painkillers isn’t all that lawful to begin with. A year or two ago, we all heard about people buying the no-joke acne medicine, Accutane, online—without a prescription or monthly blood tests to monitor your liver health—and drug abuse took a whole new turn into beauty-land. Now, The Daily Mail is reporting internet pill abuse has hit an all new, um, high, and it’s all in the name of beauty. The fight to be skinnier, prettier and clearer-skinned knows no bounds, apparently. We all know buying anything off the internet or eBay comes with a certain level of danger—you always wonder, is it the real deal? But buying MD Skincare peel pads is way different than purchasing something you actually ingest—right?
I mean, maybe I’m crazy, but would you buy the Nicholas Perricone clear-skin vitamins on eBay? What about something like the expensive David Kirsch Thermobubble shake mixes? It’s still being swallowed down. Are you a bit more leery of the pills versus the shake mixes?
Personally, I’m not going to buy anything I have to put in my body online, but I have less of a problem with things that are more superficial—like those MD Skincare peels. I figure, as long as they are properly sealed, I’m good to go. What about you? Where do you draw the line? [Daily Mail]
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Aidra
wrote on September 1 2009 @ 08:09 pm: [report]
I used to buy vitamins from iherb.com when I lived in Japan, because I knew they were safe. I’m also guilty of buying diet pills with ephedra in them online shortly after companies were told they couldn’t produce them anymore and I couldn’t find then in stores. But I would never buy prescription drugs online! I saw a news story of a lady who did that in Missouri and what she got came from India, didn’t look a thing like the meds she thought she was getting (she had taken them before, so she knew what they should have looked like) and each blister bubble had a pin prick in them! She had them tested at a lab and they weren’t what she ordered.
retro chic
wrote on September 1 2009 @ 09:49 pm: [report]
@steven-t: I mostly agree with what you said in principle (I wouldn’t do it), but, my aunt probably being the exception, moved to Escondido, SoCal, so she could get her alternative cancer drugs via Mexico. Many good drugs that were made and used in Europe, made their way to Canada then distributed to Mexico for availability to Californians. She treated herself *without surgery, without the standard of care for breast cancer: chemo and radiation* for over 40 years! She only died because my uncle (her husband) died the year before, and didn’t want to go on without him, ceasing treatment. I don’t trust the FDA mostly because it is not in the business of curing diseases when cures are available. Whole other article!
bogart4017
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 01:27 pm: [report]
I would never put anything off the internet in my mouth (smile).