http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=105830
The above article details a pretty scary situation that is going on in North Dakota at the moment, but I'm sure the problem is even more widespread than this.
The number of people addicted to painkillers is rapidly on the rise and many of these cases are coming from people obtaining them online from bogus pharmacies.
It is a federal law that you cannot give out a prescription without an in-person doctor's visit but they have only been choosing to look at major cases thus far. I think with the rise of this problem that's about to change.
It's really scary if you think about it that things like this can happen.
What this story boils down to is: we need to learn to govern the internet better. Of course we are still in a transition phase where we are still getting used to this technology being a huge part of our society, but we need more laws governing this new world.
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