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A Bittersweet Day: PharmacyChecker vs. Big Pharma

As I wrote a few weeks back, PharmacyChecker filed an antitrust lawsuit against five organizations that we believe are largely funded or backed by pharmaceutical companies. We allege that these organizations have conspired to illegally suppress competition in the areas of online pharmacy verification services and drug price comparisons on the Internet. The organizations are the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP), Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM), LegitScript, and the Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies (CSIP).

As part of that suit, we filed a motion for preliminary injunction to immediately stop the NABP from including PharmacyChecker.com and this blogsite on its “Not Recommended Sites” list. That list was created to ostensibly identify rogue online pharmacies but has included safe international online pharmacies from its very inception. More recently NABP’s oversight has been expanded, apparently, to also include sites—such as this blog—that help consumers avoid rogue online pharmacies and find affordable drug prices!

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PharmacyChecker vs. Big Pharma Front Groups and Allies

Americans overwhelmingly believe that drug prices are unreasonably high in our country. Millions have looked to the Internet to find lower drug prices at pharmacies in other countries, many because they have no other choice. For over 16 years, PharmacyChecker has provided online pharmacy verification and drug price comparison information to help these people. As I’ve written about for years, the drug companies and U.S. pharmacy corporations don’t like this and take actions to make it stop.

PharmacyChecker has filed a lawsuit against organizations and companies that we allege are illegally conspiring to “to choke off information about personal importation of affordable prescription medications from regulated, reputable pharmacies in Canada and elsewhere overseas.”

The defendants in the case are the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), LegitScript, Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP), Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies (CSIP), and the Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM). We allege that they have directly and illegally targeted PharmacyChecker.com.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation Calls Out Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies, NABP, Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies, and LegitScript for Internet Censorship

Americans Can't Afford It.

Americans Can’t Afford It.

Last week, an article was published by Jeremy Malcolm, senior global policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, under the appropriate title, “How Big Pharma’s Shadow Regulation Censors the Internet.” Basically, Jeremy explains that due to drug company money and political influence in the United States, there are activities going on both in plain view and behind the scenes that are meant to curtail and even end access by Americans to lower cost medications being sold on the Internet.

I’ve been writing about this – albeit in less Internet policy, theoretical terms –  for years and testified before and warned Congress in 2013 on this issue. About a month ago, I published an article on Circle ID, a source of news and opinion about Internet policy and governance, describing the actions of drug companies to dominate the Internet. My hope was to reach people just like Jeremy Malcolm at organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). EFF is a non-governmental organization, founded in 1990 to defend civil liberties in the digital world. They champion “user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development.” Read about its awesome work and history here(more…)

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