Dangerous Knowledge: How to Buy Drugs Online

Esquire, November, 2003 by Anonymous

I hate arguing with my doctor. Among my least favorite parts is his fussing around for a refill on my Xanax. He always seems to cut my dosage, reduce my refills, or refuse altogether. He always seems to think he knows better than me. The bastard. So it was that I ventured into the brightly lit, though not so legal, world of online pharmacies. These things litter the Internet in clumps, the way adult bookstores used to set up along the highways at the edge of town, cheek by jowl, with vaguely similar Web addresses, like 247-pharmacy.com or 247-drugstore.com . Alongside the Valium and Xanax, they offer odd quantities of weirdly familiar products—codeine-laced cough suppressants, off-brand muscle relaxants, even dietary supplements favored by beefy major league right fielders. There's...