Counterfeit pills in Thailand

[davemos]

How do you know if the pills are copies or not ? See this link http://aje.io/vxzg

[samuibeachcomber]

By copies are you meaning generic brands?If you are, then the name on the tab will not be the original brand name.Thailand has many generic brands that of course are cheaper than the original,long may it continue.

[davemos]

In the article it informs that many deaths and medical problems are being caused by Counterfeit medicine supplied on line and through pharmacists as well as street vendors .My concern is how do you know which ones are real ?

[lopburi3]

This seems to be about buying medical drugs from sidewalk vendors - would anyone but a reporter expect them to really be real?

[MaeJoMTB]

Two types of counterfeit pills.

1. Ones that work but were manufactured by unlicensed factories.

2. Ones that are placebos with no active ingredients.

You would have to test them out yourself to decide which they were.

I've found most of the 'fakes' work well enough but are unlicensed.

[TacoHell]

about 10 years ago i was in the business, the pills manufactured in India and China at regulated factories are exactly the same as the brand names. At that time at least the patents for these drugs did not extend outside the USA so companies like pfizer could do little except sue the retailers for using the NAME, which happened to us, but we luckily got out of it through mediation. It is one thing to mislabel something as Viagra, and entirely another the label it as generic Sildenafil. In our case we marketed the product as generic viagra on a website that had viagra in the name, and it took less than 2 months for pfizer to come knocking despite us being based in Panama.

So, that article is misleading. The best thing is to look at the manufacturer. Generic xanax for example is sold in thailand as Allam, manufactured by H K Pharm, which is registered to produce the product. Sure, some back alley pharmacy might be selling un-registered copies, but in most cases at reputable pharmacies you can feel safe. As stated above, its more the use of the brand name on packaging which gets the likes of Pfizer to take notice.

And, the article is correct about the massive profits. We were buying real Sildenafil for 25 cents a pill, and selling for $12, which was a bargain for consumers as the brand name viagra was being sold for $30 at the time. We'd charge a prescription fee of $50, and pay real doctors to write scripts $25/script. All legal at the time. Some of the doctors were earning more than $10,000/wk doing this.

Edited April 11, 2015 by TacoHell

[giddyup]

about 10 years ago i was in the business, the pills manufactured in India and China at regulated factories are exactly the same as the brand names. At that time at least the patents for these drugs did not extend outside the USA so companies like pfizer could do little except sue the retailers for using the NAME, which happened to us, but we luckily got out of it through mediation. It is one thing to mislabel something as Viagra, and entirely another the label it as generic Sildenafil. In our case we marketed the product as generic viagra on a website that had viagra in the name, and it took less than 2 months for pfizer to come knocking despite us being based in Panama.

So, that article is misleading. The best thing is to look at the manufacturer. Generic xanax for example is sold in thailand as Allam, manufactured by H K Pharm, which is registered to produce the product. Sure, some back alley pharmacy might be selling un-registered copies, but in most cases at reputable pharmacies you can feel safe. As stated above, its more the use of the brand name on packaging which gets the likes of Pfizer to take notice.

And, the article is correct about the massive profits. We were buying real Sildenafil for 25 cents a pill, and selling for $12, which was a bargain for consumers as the brand name viagra was being sold for $30 at the time. We'd charge a prescription fee of $50, and pay real doctors to write scripts $25/script. All legal at the time. Some of the doctors were earning more than $10,000/wk doing this.

Buying for 25 cents and selling for $12. Greed is good.

[Sheryl]

The post is nto about reputable phramcies, or any type of pharmacies, but abut sidewalk vendors openly selling drugs tat are restricted by law (in the cases of xanax, drugs which cannot even be legally stocked at a pharmacy, only a hospital).

These are indeed often (though not always) fake.