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Kansas News: Internet Faxes
Published in the December 2007 Kansas State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter
The Board office has received numerous complaints from physicians and pharmacists in Kansas concerning faxes that are being transmitted from an Internet company to business fax machines in Kansas including medical clinics and pharmacies. The faxes indicate that you can now order prescription medication without a prescription. They state that the patient can just fill out an online questionnaire and one of their doctors will write a prescription. Prescriptions are then sent electronically from the Web-based company to a participating pharmacy. The advertisement states that the online pharmacy will fill the order and ship it overnight to the patient’s door. Weekly specials usually include generic Ultram® (tramadol), generic Soma® (carisoprodol), and generic Fiorcet® (butalbital, acetaminophen, and caffeine). Various Web sites are: MyPharmaCentral.net, MyPharmaUSA.biz, MyFirstPharma.com, MyPharmaStop.net, MyRXUnited.com, MyPharmaCentral.com, MyPharmaNow.com, MyDrugstore1.net, MyPharmaUnited.com, MyPharmacyWorld.net, Medicaltouch.net, and Checkuplink.com.
Beware of the dangers associated with starting business affiliations with Web-based companies that generate prescriptions on the basis of a questionnaire and not a patient-physician relationship. The Web-based companies are attempting to legitimize prescriptions by using a duly licensed pharmacy to supply the medications. Do not jeopardize your license by filling these types of prescriptions.
The Kansas State Board of Pharmacy is working with the Attorney General, Food and Drug Administration, and other state boards of pharmacy to stop this activity.
