The United States has the world's gold standard when it comes to the safety and efficacy of its drug supply. Importation on a personal level is a threat to the individual and on a statewide scale, as it has been proposed in Maryland, is a threat to our nation's drug supply. Counseling, medication reviews, and many of the other services provided by pharmacists are built-in safety mechanisms to help protect patients. Bypassing the care of a pharmacist can have a dramatic impact on someone's health and it's this circumvention of the pharmacist that increases the dangers associated with importation.
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