Phentermine. Not phentarmine, fenteramine, or viagra spelled with a 1.
May 10, 2010 6:43 AM Subscribe
Ordering Rx phentermine online: why has this changed?
From 2002-2006, I ordered phentermine tablets, 37.5 mg, 90-day supply at a time, from various online sites. (The weight loss center I used didn't issue prescriptions, and would only distribute meds directly with various "service fees" added.) The pills would arrive from pharmacies with Florida addresses.
These sites would, predictably, change names or disappear without warning. No big surprise there; however, each order required a full disclosure of health and condition before the "licensed physician" would approve the order; I never experienced any order problems, would have to sign for each order, and the meds were consistently effective.
So recently I thought about starting phentermine again and looked around, and have discovered that not only does it not appear nearly as available as before, but where I've seen it is nearly 4x what I paid four years ago.
The question in NOT "where can I buy cheap phentermine?" The question is, what happened that there appeared to be some sort of crackdown on amphetamines between 2006-2010? Is there some kind of shortage? Was what I was doing illegal in TN? Is it illegal now? Has this happened for a lot of rx drugs, or just diet ones?
From 2002-2006, I ordered phentermine tablets, 37.5 mg, 90-day supply at a time, from various online sites. (The weight loss center I used didn't issue prescriptions, and would only distribute meds directly with various "service fees" added.) The pills would arrive from pharmacies with Florida addresses.
These sites would, predictably, change names or disappear without warning. No big surprise there; however, each order required a full disclosure of health and condition before the "licensed physician" would approve the order; I never experienced any order problems, would have to sign for each order, and the meds were consistently effective.
So recently I thought about starting phentermine again and looked around, and have discovered that not only does it not appear nearly as available as before, but where I've seen it is nearly 4x what I paid four years ago.
The question in NOT "where can I buy cheap phentermine?" The question is, what happened that there appeared to be some sort of crackdown on amphetamines between 2006-2010? Is there some kind of shortage? Was what I was doing illegal in TN? Is it illegal now? Has this happened for a lot of rx drugs, or just diet ones?
What you were doing is illegal per the FDA. From wikipedia: "Note that FDA does not recognize online prescriptions. For the prescription to be valid, there must be a face-to-face relationship between the patient and the health care professional prescribing the drug."
If you want to take prescription drugs, find a real doctor and get a prescription.
posted by reptile at 7:20 AM on May 10, 2010
If you want to take prescription drugs, find a real doctor and get a prescription.
posted by reptile at 7:20 AM on May 10, 2010
It looks like there was a crackdown on online pharmacies in 2004 in Florida.
It's not limited to "diet" pills; in 2007 there was a much-publicized case against online pharmacies distributing steroids as well.
A charitable description of what you've been doing would be "exploiting a legal gray area"; pretty much everyone involved, I'd suspect, understood all along that it was just a matter of time before the law caught up to reality.
posted by ook at 7:30 AM on May 10, 2010
It's not limited to "diet" pills; in 2007 there was a much-publicized case against online pharmacies distributing steroids as well.
A charitable description of what you've been doing would be "exploiting a legal gray area"; pretty much everyone involved, I'd suspect, understood all along that it was just a matter of time before the law caught up to reality.
posted by ook at 7:30 AM on May 10, 2010
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Yes to both, but it was in 2002-2006 as well.
posted by atrazine at 7:16 AM on May 10, 2010