Pharmacists in Canada are now moving over and going beyond routine duties like sitting behind the counter, collecting drugs and counting them. While there need for controls to be put in place to regulate the practice of both medicine online and Internet pharmacies, we also need to acknowledge that science and technology has furthered the practice of medicine, and that the Internet will further it yet.
Mr. Haughton was unavailable Wednesday but he acknowledged to the Wall Street Journal that one of his companies, Montana Healthcare Solutions, inadvertently mail order prescription drugs legally from Canada distributed counterfeit Avastin in the U.S. None of the drugs came to Canada, according to the drug's manufacturer, Switzerland-based Roche Holding AG.

In Canada, the licensing of pharmacies—whether they have a traditional brick and mortar” storefront only or a storefront with an online business—is primarily the jurisdiction of NAPRA's members, the provincial and territorial pharmacy regulatory authorities.
All that those who choose to take advantage of the HUGE savings that can be made through online pharmacies selling generic medications need to do is to be aware of their own health and any conditions they may have, read the supplied information carefully and complete the online consultation form honestly.

Like their UK counterparts, Canadian pharmacists rely heavily on their pharmacy technician colleagues to undertake dispensing, management, accuracy checking and other vital roles in order to free pharmacists' time for their own extended and more clinical roles.
While the present trend appears to be to make it illegal for a doctor to prescribe drugs without seeing the patient face-to-face there is also a move to establish rules and regulations that ensure that patients receive quality care over the Internet.
In the many years that our retirees have been flocking across the border to get their prescription drugs, there has never been a case in Canada or the United States of an American being hurt or dying from sub standard medication distributed from a Canadian pharmacy.

The Canadian discount pharmacies may however face some competition from their Mexican counterparts as the industry there is now growing and soon may explore means of reaching out to customers in US. This may however happen somewhere in the next decade or so, and till then, the Canadian pharmacies will continue to sell their drugs to US customers.