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Drug Importation

Poll shows 80% of U.S. adults favor allowing importation of prescription drugs

Published in Biotech Law Weekly, October 20th, 2006

According to a recent Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Health-Care Poll, four out of five (80%) U.S. adults indicate that they favor allowing people to import prescription drugs from Canada and other countries if they are much less expensive.

A vast majority (84%) of the public strongly or somewhat agrees that the law banning pharmaceutical imports is intended to protect drug companies' profits, while only 36% say this law helps protect Americans from potentially harmful drugs.

These are some of the results of an online survey of 2,295 U.S. adults conducted by Harris Interactive between August 23 and 25, 2006 for The Wall...

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