Advantages And Disadvantages Of Counterfeiting

Dear Pharmacist, I often heard the fake drugs. Even now there are also banners appeal not to use counterfeit drugs. How do we know that we buy fake drugs or not? How usefulness of the counterfeit drugs? What are the dangers? I was worried, because ever buy drugs freely. Thank you for the answer. Rohim 41 years, Bogor. 081804362XXX

Answer : Counterfeit drugs are drugs efficacious ingredients replaced partially or completely with another material chemically similar but not the same and not efficacious. Counterfeiting actions may include: the use of medicinal properties that have been damaged or does not qualify, mixing with other materials, substitution with other materials that seem similar, low levels or substandard drugs and products are defective or damaged. The act of counterfeiting is generally aimed at fraud. Counterfeit drugs are sometimes also classified as medicinal products, either generic or branded, which do not have marketing authorization in a particular country but allowed to be

When drugs are counterfeited really the same womb with the original drug, then there is no danger for the user. But this possibility is small. The disadvantage is the manufacturer of the original drug. Drugs were falsified in this manner generally drugs that are highly in demand in the market is often a product that became the backbone of the company's turnover. The most common is a fake drug that does not qualify. Even the anti-malarial drugs ever found that only contain efficacious ingredients is only about one percent. If this is the case, then of course would endanger the patient. Treatment course will fail, and it is not likely to cause death, alongside the sufferer may become resistant if still alive. Other side effects, there are chances of transmission of the disease to other people through mosquito bites. Counterfeit drugs may not contain nutritious ingredients altogether alias only starch