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Kindergarten gave the prescription drug “viral spirit” to the children and caused great uproar. At the same time, it also raised concerns about the use and management of prescription drugs. However, the reporters found in many places that prescription drugs that should be used under the guidance of doctors can be easily bought from pharmacies and drug distribution companies without a doctor's prescription.

"Purchase by prescription" is in name only?

According to the “Measures for the Administration of Pharmaceuticals Circulation,” when customers purchase prescription drugs from drug retailers (pharmacies), they must hold prescriptions issued by doctors and doctors; and when drug wholesalers sell prescription drugs, they can only sell drugs with the qualifications for drug operations. Organizations, including medical institutions, drug wholesalers and pharmaceutical retailers, cannot be sold to individuals. However, in actual implementation, these two levels of "purchase by prescription" have been discounted.

The reporter recently visited some pharmacies in Changsha, Yueyang, Zhengzhou and other places and found that most pharmacies do not need patients to issue a doctor's prescription to buy antibiotics such as cefaclor, amoxicillin, cefixime and other antibiotics, just like shopping.

Not only that, but many prescription drugs also have random trading in the wholesale sales. “In order to obtain commercial profits, it is very common for prescription drugs to be illegally sold to pharmaceutical supermarkets, community hospitals, or individuals.” Zhang Dongsheng (a pseudonym) of a medical representative from Xi’an disclosed to reporters that due to the possibility of criminal offences, pharmaceutical companies are only Drug control is more stringent, while other prescription drugs have a large number of illegal sales.

Zhang Dongsheng told reporters that as long as customers issued proof of prescription drugs, prescription drugs can be sold to customers, and some private clinics forged qualification certificates do not check the authenticity. In particular, some rural doctors do not have prescribing rights, but they can also buy various commonly used prescription drugs from pharmaceutical wholesalers. Sometimes they can even obtain drugs through logistics distribution and express delivery.

How big is the abuse of prescription drugs?

Because of certain toxic or side effects or potential effects, according to the relevant laws and regulations of our country, prescription drugs must be purchased and used by prescriptions of medical practitioners, and they must be used under the guidance of doctors.

"Currently, prescription drugs that are most abused are antibiotics." Zhou Guoping, the director of the National Outstanding Primary Hospital, which founded the country's first free outpatient clinic, told reporters that colds and coughs use antibiotics at every turn. Improper use or excessive use of antibiotics not only makes the body The emergence of drug resistance can also cause adverse effects such as allergies. The abuse of prescription drugs such as hormones and sleeping pills can also cause endocrine disorders. The abuse of prescription drugs not only harms the health of the patients, but also wastes medical resources. He believes that the abuse of prescription drugs should cause great concern.

How to prevent the abuse of prescription drugs? Xiao Cequn, party secretary of the Hunan Food and Drug Administration, proposed that it strengthen the supervision of prescription drugs, and conduct dynamic monitoring of patient feedback from drug production, distribution, prescription review, and after-sales service. In addition, we will improve the building of a team of licensed pharmacists and play its role as a "gatekeeper" in the drug circulation areas such as hospital pharmacies and pharmacies. The supervisory department must dare to deal with illegal cases. Once violations of prescription drug sales are discovered, they must be strictly investigated and dealt with according to law.