Episode Details

Thanks in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, use of online pharmacies grew 17%, and the online pharmaceutical market is expected to grow to $42.7 million by 2028, according to a report by Million Insights. Online pharmacies offer convenience, potential cost savings - but also open up opportunities for fraud and drug abuse for individuals who use easy online access to game the system - or even buy medicines from untrustworthy sites for medications they have never been prescribed.

Questions around drug use as an adjudicatively significant issue typically center around marijuana or drugs that are illegal at the federal level. But the adjudicative guideline includes any misuse of drugs - which would include prescription drug abuse. 

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