An overriding responsibility of our nation’s pharmaceutical distributors is to ensure the safety, quality, and integrity of the products they distribute. The Healthcare Distribution Management Association believes that every effort must be taken to make sure that counterfeit, adulterated, or otherwise tampered with drugs do not enter the marketplace through any point in the healthcare supply system.

Therefore HDMA believes that pharmacies should have minimum requirements in place to ensure the integrity of the drugs before providing Americans with prescription drugs via the Internet.

Resources

HDMA Supports House Efforts to Combat Illegal Online Sales of Prescription Medicines - June 25, 2008

HDMA Supports Administration's Call to Combat Illegal Online Sales of Prescription Medicines - March 3, 2008

FDA Warning about Buying Potentially Risky Internet Drugs - July 2, 2007

Contact
Kristen Freitas
Director, Federal Government Affairs
703-885-0232
kfreitas@hdmanet.org