When you are sick, what do you do to try to relieve your symptoms and help you get over your illness? Well you take a drug, prescribed for whatever ailment you currently have. We don’t really think much of the drugs we take when we are sick as we expect them to work each time we take them. But, let’s say you take a drug that you have been told is the right one for the illness you have and find that no matter the dosage it doesn’t work? Or say it works too well, to the point you are rapidly losing weight, your organs are shutting down and you are having to be hospitalized because the drug you took is killing you? You most likely have come across a type of drug that no person should ever have to come across: The counterfeit drug
Unlike generic drugs, which have all of the ingredients of their name brand drug counterparts, counterfeit drugs are usually smuggled into the country as cheap alternatives. In making them cheap, the makers of these drugs try to cut as many corners as possible in order to cut down on the price. Such corner cutting includes not adding the active ingredients, adding too much of one active ingredient, or adding ingredients that while they do work, are harmful to the human body. These drugs are usually caught when they are brought to the shores of first world countries, though sometimes they can slip through the cracks of examiners and when they do they can wreck havoc on the users in those countries
Via: Carrington College Pharmacy Technician Schools
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