DEA Shuts Down Over 4,600 Pharma Sites

[JR]

were some of these guys really making this much money? anyone know? crazy shit. how can you do that and think you will not get pressure or prosecuted... escpecially after the DEA made it clear for years that this is a huge issue that they will clamp down on.

[RyanLanane]

I agree with you Nick - but it isn't exactly clear where the line of legality is. Even companies doing it 'by the book' most liekly are violating some sort of federal law. For example every 2 years you are supposed to see your patient face to face.. That's one of the ones i heard recently.

I think this is an intruiging area of internet commerce that will be under scrutiny until regulations are set firmly. In the mean time the companies doing things for the most part by the book (mainly meaning requesting medical records that are recent PRIOR to writing a script etc) will be fine .. Not that I would want to be one of them, just saying ...

[Jace]

Originally Posted by JR

were some of these guys really making this much money? anyone know? crazy shit. how can you do that and think you will not get pressure or prosecuted... escpecially after the DEA made it clear for years that this is a huge issue that they will clamp down on.

I will give you an idea of what they make if they are successful

My wife has a lot of pain from various thing, and every now and then has to take something. We order norco's from www.norcoworldwide.com

We had an order mixup one time and one of the reps let some info slip that put things into a HUGE perspective

When my wife called the sales rep let it slip, or maybe didn't care, and told my wife that there was approx 423 orders taken to the pharmacy that she had to go through on that day to find my wife's order

now, suppose an average order is $100 (which my wife's is), that is $42,300 for that one day...and with that kind of volume, you have to imagine they are getting the drugs for pretty cheap, i would imagine $.10 or $.20 a pill

so, yes, if done correctly, someone could open up shop for 6 months and live nicely for the rest of their life off that 6 months of being open

now, norcoworldwide.com has a LOT of employees, you can call 3-4 times a day for 3-4 days and never talk to the same person, we have had to do that before...but even with employee pay subtracted from the overhead, it is still a shit ton of money being made