Apparently, the Canadian International Pharmacy Association (CIPA) was as taken with Elvis the Cat’s guest appearance on our blog Monday as many of you were. In a timely follow-up our blog on why are prescription drugs (even cat prescription drugs) so much cheaper in Canada than they are here, CIPA just released its list of top prescription drugs ordered online by Americans from Canada in 2009.
Plavix (an anticoagulant often used to prevent blood clots), Advair (a corticosteroid used for asthma), and Flomax (an alpha-adrenergic blocker often given to men with enlarged prostates) head the list of prescription drugs most often ordered online from Canada, and most of the prescription drugs ordered most often by Americans are brand-name prescription drugs that treat chronic conditions like asthma, high cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes. Considering that ordering prescription drugs online from Canada is illegal, it’s really no surprise the Americans who most often take the legal risk to order their prescription drugs from Canada use the drugs to treat chronic conditions that need treatment on a daily basis.
The rest of the CIPA most-ordered list includes: Asacol (for inflammatory bowel disease), Nexium (an antacid), Zetia, Crestor and Lipitor (for treating high cholesterol), Synthroid (for hypothryroidism), Prandin, Januvia and Actos (all diabetes medications), Premarin (estrogen hormones used to treat menopause symptoms), Celebrex (a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory) and Dilantin (an anticonvulsant used to treat epilepsy).
As always, we do remind you that buying prescription drugs from Canada and bringing them into the U.S. is illegal, although the U.S. government generally does not enforce this against Americans who bring small amounts (90 day supplies or less) of prescription drugs into the U.S. for personal use.
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