Posted in December 2010

Domain Name Registrar Agrees to Crack Down on Web Sites Selling Prescription Medications Unlawfully

Topics: diversion, Internet pharmacies, and NABP

Potentially thousands of rogue Internet drug outlets will have to board up their virtual storefronts, thanks to a new partnership agreement enforcing a major domain name registrar’s ban on illegal use of the Web sites it hosts. 

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CS Prescriptions for Teens Increase to Nearly Twice 1994 Levels

Topics: Teens, Prescription drug abuse, and NABP

One in nine adolescents received a prescription for medications with a high potential for abuse in 2007, a rate almost twice the 1994 levels.

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