5 Choosing an online pharmacy you can trust

Choosing a trustworthy online pharmacy is crucial for your health and safety. DiRx outlines five key factors: ensuring the pharmacy sells only FDA-approved medicines, is licensed and accredited, offers pharmacist support, monitors prescription interactions, and complies with privacy laws. By focusing on these aspects, you can confidently select an online pharmacy that prioritises your well-being.Read More

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval process assures that medicines sold in the United States are safe and effective. The FDA also confirms safety and effectiveness by testing both brand and generic drugs in its laboratories. This includes the raw ingredients used to make the product, as well as the finished drug. The FDA, through their approval process, verifies that different people, dosages, and drug interactions are considered to ensure your overall safety when taking a prescribed medication, whether it is a brand name drug or a generic.

Prescription drugs that have not been approved by the FDA pose significant risks to patients because they have not been reviewed for safety, effectiveness or quality. Without FDA review, there is no way to know if these drugs are safe and effective for their intended use, whether they are manufactured in a way that ensures consistent drug quality or whether their label is complete and accurate.

It is important to have a pharmacy team that supports you and one that you can trust with your important medicine-related needs. Look for a pharmacy that has a customer care contact that can help you get answers to common questions about medication availability and cost, shipping, ways to save on medicines and other frequent questions. Ideally, you should have access to the customer care person during the hours and days that work for you, not just weekdays and during typical business hours.

Being able to speak directly with a pharmacist is another benefit you should seek when choosing an online pharmacy you can trust. The pharmacist can discuss side effects of your prescription, he/she can identify interactions with other medicines you take, as well as provide answers to dosage questions, instructions for taking your medicines and if there are over-the-counter options to consider. Your pharmacist should also be willing and able to partner with your healthcare provider to ensure the best care possible for you and your family. Although they don’t typically have as extensive hours as the supporting customer care team, having the ability to speak to a pharmacist with enhanced hours of availability is a plus.