Utilized by major companies like Google and Amazon, as well as government agencies in the US, Italy and elsewhere, LegitScript maintains the largest database of Internet pharmacies in the world. What’s more, LegitScript’s online pharmacy verification program is the only one of its kind in North America. In fact, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy has identified this program as the only Internet pharmacy verification service that currently adheres to its high set of standards.
If you currently buy prescription drugs over the Internet or are thinking about making this type of purchase, you may have heard about LegitScript. If you are a business owner, doctor, patient or simply an Internet user, there may come a time when you need to know whether an online pharmacy is following the letter of the law. LegitScript’s online pharmacy verification program is here to help, and if you are part of an online pharmacy, it’s free to undergo the required verification process to become part of LegitScript’s network.
Some rogue Internet pharmacies have sought to discredit LegitScript; it’s important to set the record straight. An expert team of medical professionals, licensed pharmacists, former narcotics law enforcement officials and former drug investigators monitor thousands of websites that sell prescription drugs. Major Internet companies and government agencies around the world rely on LegitScript to determine which online pharmacies are legitimate, and which ones are not safe. (And that’s often something that the rogue Internet pharmacy operators aren’t happy about.) LegitScript’s team has even participated in investigations with some of the leading corporations and government agencies around the world to help find the websites that are selling counterfeit drugs or providing prescription drugs to people without prescriptions, and has helped expose other Internet pharmacy verification programs approving Internet pharmacies that sell counterfeit drugs, or drugs without a prescription.
The LegitScript online pharmacy verification service is different from other monitoring programs because of a unique system that makes it possible to target hundreds of illegitimate online pharmacies at once rather than looking at each website individually. And unlike any other online pharmacy-monitoring program in the United States or Canada, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy recognizes this one. There are literally more than 40,000 disreputable Internet pharmacies out there at any one time, but this online pharmacy verification program ensures that these rogue websites won’t slip through the cracks.
In order to become part of LegitScript’s network of approved online pharmacies (offered for free to Internet pharmacies that are legitimate), websites must adhere to strict verification standards developed with help from organizations such as the APA, NABP and FDA. These verification standards include pharmacy license authentication, monitoring of DEA registration, HIPAA adherence and requirements that the websites divulge contact information for a pharmacist as well as a physical pharmacy location. Extensive reviews of any past disciplinary action taken against pharmacies or pharmacists are taken into account before verifying any online pharmacy.