Smuggled Mexican Prescription Drugs: Quick-Fix for Mounting Healthcare Costs Medical Tourism Magazine
go to original April 9, 2014

Pharmacists across the border draw U.S. citizens looking to buy cheaper prescription drugs in Nogales, Mexico. The difference in the price of drugs sold in Mexico and the U.S. equivalent can be significant. (Norma Jean Gargasz/Getty Images)

Prescription drugs from Mexico smuggled into the United States are becoming a means to deal with the rising cost of medicine.

Just say “yes.”

The growing theme is whispered among Americans who are unable to afford prescription medications that require top-of-the-line insurance or plenty of disposable income. Just south of the border, “yes” is the word heard these days in deals and bargains at the hands of smugglers who are willing to bring prescription drugs in bulk from Mexico to the United States to a growing and receptive clientele looking for a quick-fix to escalating healthcare costs.

Finding prescription drugs across the border in Mexico is nothing new, but more people are buying medicines these days for people they don’t know. That’s something physicians and law enforcement officials say is a relatively new trend among patients who are the least bit apologetic.

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The Government Accountability Office has issued a report detailing serious and growing drug shortages in the United States. Sabrina Tavernise of the New York Times joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington to detail some of the reasons behind the shortfall. (PBS NewsHour)

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