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Written by Andrew Schmid
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009 14:55 |
California’s 17KGET.com news site covered an interesting story this week about how a Bakersfield family blames their mother’s death on addiction to painkillers that she repeatedly re-ordered online without a prescription.
On Friday, police told Jerry Clearwater that his wife had died after losing control of her car and hitting a tree.
“I still can't believe that she's gone,'' he told reporters. ''I’ll never see my wife again.”
Although the corner's office said it could take eight to 10 weeks to determine if 44-year-old Laura Clearwater had drugs in her system at the time of the accident, Jerry Clearwater “blames the crash and his wife's death on her addiction to the prescription drugs she bought online.”
Clearwater said a doctor originally prescribed a muscle relaxer for a back injury his wife had suffered while skiing.
Six months later, with an expired prescription and apparently addicted, his wife “started ordering the muscle relaxer Soma from an online pharmacy called myrxbill.com,” Clearwater said.
She never saw a doctor and every week more pills arrived at the family’s doorstep
The president of LegitScript.com, a website recognized by the National Association, told 17KGET.com that he knows myrxbill.com and other sites tied to it are not legitimate online pharmacies.
''Ninety-nine percent of Internet pharmacies are not legitimate,'' John Horton said. “And a lot of Web sites, just like the one that it appears sold drugs to this woman, are nothing more than Internet drug pushers.”
Click here to see the LegitScript.com blog post on this story.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 April 2009 13:36 |
