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Internet Buying of Medicines is Illegal

Illegal internet medicine companies have multiplied in recent years, according to Finnish Customs. Despite this, a third of people claim not to know that buying medicines over the internet is a crime.

According to Customs officials, this explains the growing market in online sexual potency drugs.

Meanwhile, about a thousand Finnish people aged between 15 and 79 years of age responded to a survey by the Association of Finnish Pharmacists. A third of people said they did not know that buying medicines on the internet is a crime.

Two thirds of people also said that they knew that medicines obtained over the internet often turned out to be fakes. But, no-one questioned, actually admitted to buying prescription medicine online.

YLE24