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Internet Pharmacy Cybercrime: State Policy Mitigating Risks 2000-2015

Internet Pharmacy Cybercrime: State Policy Mitigating Risks 2000-2015
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Author(s): Mary Schmeida (Kent State University, USA)and Ramona S. McNeal (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 20
Source title: Cybersecurity Breaches and Issues Surrounding Online Threat Protection
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Michelle Moore (George Mason University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1941-6.ch003

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Abstract

Internet pharmacy social gains are efficiency, improving pharmaceutical access for isolates, and less cost. Alongside gains, illegal Internet pharmacies and unscrupulous pharmacy practices have made online purchasing a cyber risk for consumers. Industry self-regulation has failed, giving way to U.S. government and transnational intervention. The U.S. assumes “responsible domestic governance” in disrupting Internet crime by passing modern day drug policies (White House, 2011; 2016), and having transnational cooperation. States have joined the federal to pass laws generally on licensed in-state entities processing orders for rogue Internet pharmacies (GAO, 2013) but not uniformly. However, online pharmacy sites continue to dispense without “valid” prescriptions, unapproved drugs are sold online, and illegal pharmacies continue to operate. This chapter explores why some American states have adopted laws regulating Internet pharmacies from 2000 through 2015, using Cox proportional hazards regression.

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