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I have two personal anecdotes regarding drugs imported from Canada.
About 3 weeks ago a patient came to the ER and then the hospital floor complaining of "dizziness". She had had similar episodes each morning over the first 4 days of the previous month. This patient was a long-time hypertensive, so the first thought was that this was probably due to an overdose of her medications. After further investigation, we realized that her med dosage had not been changed. Standard practice would have us either re-adjust the dosage or change drugs. As we were leaving her room, we again asked her if there had been ANY changes to her meds. She said no, but then she spoke up and said, "well, there was one thing, you see, I lost my job and didn't have insurance, so I bought my medications from Canada. You don't think that could have been the trouble doc, do you?" It turns out that the reason she only had the symptoms for a few days is that she switched back to her old bottle and finished it out and the day before and this morning she again used the meds from Canada.

My second story: Another patient has been buying her drugs from Canada for a couple years now. Over that period of time she has NEVER received the proper medications or dosages in spite of repeated efforts on her doctor's part to rectify the situation. The Canadian pharmacy continues to send her incorrect medications and incorrect dosages. The silly old lady refuses to believe her beloved internet Canadian pharmacy is ripping her off. (Oh yeah, and she is paying more than she would if she purchased them in the States). Don't you just love the idiots who love Kerry?

This relates to post 20 "go-dubya-04"

I personally am not in favour of ordering medications online for the reasons you have cited.

As I told go-dubya-04 I am not aware of any case where drugs originating in Canada were fake or dangerous. Canadian drugs have to satisfy Canadian quality and safety standards as the US. In fact FDA approval is no guarantee that a drug will be approved for distribution in Canada.

In the cases you cite, neither problem was due to the quality of the Canadian drugs, rather they were not properly administered by the 'pharmacy' and repeated attempts to correct the situation failed.

Either way you look at it this is a dangerous situation and the company should be reported Health Canada and the Competition Bureau which handles fraudulent and dangerous business practices.

As I said I drugs should only be purchased from a reputable retailer under a doctor's supervision.