Canadian pharmacies--revisted

I've generally been a big fan of Canadian pharmacies and any other method consumers can use to get lower cost medications, but I've recently had to rethink the Canadian pharmacy issue. I still think Canadian drugs are fine. The problem is, if you order from an online pharmacy, there's no guarantee your medications are going to come from Canada. In fact, they're likely to come from somewhere else.

I myself ordered Zyrtec from my usual place, and ended up getting a shipment that seems to have come from England. Since I have nothing against English drugs, I'm taking it and doing fine. Still, there is probably a temptation to get the medications from wherever they can find them. Plus, the websites don't tell you where the drugs might come from up front. India makes a lot of inexpensive generics, and there are other places that I wouldn't trust for quality control. So on the whole, I'd suggest avoiding internet foreign purchase of medications.

Road trips to Canada, though, would be just fine.