Internet prescription sales fly not quite under the radar

Internet prescription sales fly not quite under the radar: "Internet prescription sales fly not quite under the radar
Drug costs A Portland man whose Web pharmacy ships from India operates in a legal gray zone

LVH ED: Read this ... an absolute must.


Sunday, October 16, 2005
TED SICKINGER

To customers who frequent ProgressiveRx.com, Hayden Hamilton is a hero. He's their Robin Hood of health care, a man who brings a healthy dose of altruism to an industry where it is sorely lacking.

To the pharmaceutical industry and federal regulators, he's something else entirely. In their eyes, the 28-year-old Portland entrepreneur and his ilk are scofflaws who put the public at risk and steal others' property.

Welcome to the morally and legally ambiguous world of online drug sales, where, for now at least, customers make the call."