Online Extra: The Deadly Side Effects of Net Pharmacies
Operating in a legal grey area, their doctors write thousands of prescriptions for people, sight unseen. Is better regulation required?
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By Keith Epstein
For 30-year-old plastics salesman Craig Schmidt, life was supposed to be getting good. In April, 2004, he and his wife, Anna, had just moved into a new house in the Chicago suburbs. She was pregnant with their first child. He played basketball with his buddies on weekends and golfed regularly with clients. When he had time, Schmidt read Dostoyevsky and Hemingway.