USA Criminal and Civil Prosecutions Associated with Illicit Online Pharmacies: Legal Analysis and Global Implications

By Camille Guerra and Timothy Mackey – as published in Med Access @ Point Care

Evolving technologies have created a complex online environment that now includes illegal pharmacies, as well as online facilitators, advertising sites and foreign entities. Collectively, these networks create significant patient safety risks, including acting as unregulated access points encouraging prescription drug abuse.

Professor Tim Mackey, director of the Global Health Policy Institute and CaseyGerry attorney Camille Guerra recently conducted a comprehensive legal review and analysis of U.S. civil and criminal cases associated with online pharmacies and published their findings in Med Access @ Point Care. Read the full article here.