Five Checks Before You Order Medicine From an Overseas Pharmacy
Searching for a cheaper source of a regular prescription can quickly lead you to pharmacies in other countries. Some are well run. Others are not pharmacies at all, just websites selling tablets of unknown origin. Before handing over a prescription, payment details or your medical history, it is worth running through a short set of checks. None of them take long, and together they filter out most of the obvious problems. Check 1: Does it ask for a valid prescription? This is the single clearest signal. A pharmacy supplying prescription-only medicines should ask for a prescription written by a licensed prescriber, and it should actually check it. If a site offers to send prescription medicines with no prescription, or replaces one with a quick tick-box questionnaire, treat that as a warning, not a convenience. A prescription is not just paperwork. It means a clinician has considered your other medicines, your health conditions and the right dose for you. Skipping that step removes the m...