Tramadol Shortage (Page 62)
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Does anyone know of a pharmacy with tramadol available? I tried ordering it but everyine keeps telling me its out of stock and not available until after the holidays. I run out of my rx today and can't wait until after the holidays so any help is appreciate it.

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My Original Reply was to ROB who wanted to Sue the supply chains and Pharma businesses! Rob, please just detox and find another soap box to complain about. This is very serious to many people and you just don't seem to be grown up enough to join the discussion.

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Thats what I said lol. New yrs resolution : ) withdrawls only last for a little while.... im going through it now and im tryin to stay positive. All I hv is caffiene pills and weed : / oh and I did hv the muscle relaxers but those r gone now. Anyways im sticking to it in my own for now!

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I found another website link with more information and the names of some of the websites that are affected in the shut down. this is a copy and paste of the full article

MottoNetwork, PGW Management, EuroMedOnline implicated in multimillion-dollar online drug sales scheme


Posted on December 5, 2012 by Karen posted in Internet Pharmacy Stuff


Ten people - two pharmacists, three physicians and five website operators - were indicted last week in a scheme to sell prescription drugs over the Internet without a valid prescription. The pharmacists, operating from New Jersey and Pennsylvania, are said to have made at least $13 million in the scheme, which began in 2010 and involved both controlled and noncontrolled substances. The website operators allegedly used an online medical questionnaire method, in lieu of requiring an in-person medical examination, to acquire prescriptions for customers who ordered drugs from their websites.

Of particular importance, the drugs that were sold without a valid prescription were not merely controlled substances, but also included non-controlled substance prescription drugs.

Here’s how the operation worked, according to the indictment:

The website operators - Timothy Kear, Christopher Riley, Adam Risolia, Gergana Chervenkova and Paul Gryszkiewicz - are alleged to have sent their customers’ completed medical questionnaires to the physicians, identified as John Nicholas Burling of South Carolina, Robert P. Imbernino of California and Edmond S. Kaplan of New York. Those doctors would then write prescriptions for the customers without conducting an in-person exam or verifying the provided medical history, according to the Department of Justice. (The online questionnaire forms would have “yes†and “no†answers that “were often prepopulated with the answer that did not disqualify the customer from receiving the prescription drugs that he or she ordered,†the indictment says.) The sites’ operators would then send those prescriptions to a pharmacy owned or run by Peter James Riccio or Lena Lasher, also known as Lena Congtang (the name on her pharmacy license). Riccio owns Towne Pharmacy in Dunellen, N.J., as well as Hellertown Pharmacy, which Lasher operated since 2011, in Hellertown, Pa. Finally, it is alleged, those pharmacists filled the prescriptions and sent the drugs — including Fioricet, Ultram and Butalbital (a controlled substance) — to customers via the US Postal Service, FedEx or UPS, sometimes across state lines.

The indictment did not identify the websites involved or any larger rogue Internet pharmacy network. But LegitScript’s analysis suggests that the primary network in question was likely MottoNetwork, as well as one that we refer to as PGW Management — networks that have long been “rogue†in LegitScript’s database.

One Internet pharmacy website run by one of the website operators facing charges states: “The process couldn’t be easier! Just select the medication that you need, fill out the brief questionnaire and submit your order…and before you know it, USPS is at your door!†That MottoNetwork website, onlineushealth.com, offers such drugs as Fioricet, Cialis and Prozac — all without requiring a valid prescription based on a prior in-person examination. The domain name is registered to Risolia with a Boca Raton, Fla., address; Risolia stated on his Facebook page (which has gone offline in the days since he was charged) that he is a “self-made millionaire/philanderer†living in Miami and is a graduate of Boca Raton High School. His Facebook and Twitter accounts, when they were online, made no secret of his link to onlineushealth.com.

On his LinkedIn profile, which lists his company website as onlineushealth.com, Risolia also identifies himself as president of Marketing US Solutions, the name of the parent company provided on onlineushealth.com‘s contact page: “Your transaction will be processed in US dollars through our parent corporation. (sic) MARKETING US SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, INC.†Risolia is the registered agent for Marketing US Solutions in Miami. Risolia is alleged to have sent a wire transfer of about $10,465 from a bank account in Florida to a bank account controlled by Riccio and Lasher in 2011.

Other domain names registered to Risolia that host rogue Internet drug websites are onlineushealthdesk.com, also part of MottoNetwork, and fastsolmeds.com. (Fast Solutions Capital, also listed on the contact page of fastsolmeds.com, is another Risolia-owned corporation that, like Marketing US Solutions, apparently was moved offshore to Panama.)

MottoNetwork, which at one time consisted of several dozen rogue pharmacy websites, advertised on search engines until the search engines switched to requiring NABP approval for online pharmacies, and engaged in SEO practices that would send Internet users searching for specific drug names to its core pharmacy sites. In keeping with MottoNetwork websites that are currently online, the defunct rogue pharmacies in the network tended to offer painkillers such as Tramadol, Fioricet and Soma. These product types may suggest a link to a bigger network that also largely deals in those medications, like RxPayouts.

Also connected to MottoNetwork is defendant Gryszkiewicz, who owns PGW Management and once operated Motto affiliate website wellingtonrx.com with his partner Luis Mieses. wellingtonrx.com currently displays text that is cited in the indictment about doctor consultations being required for “all pain, sleep/stress/anxiety, muscle relaxers and migraine headache medications.†The indictment suggests, however, that the doctor consultations were a sham: “…customers purchased and received certain prescription drugs, including pain medications; muscle relaxers, and migraine headache medications, by ordering from Gryszkiewicz’s website without receiving a doctor consultation.â€

Chervenkova was the financial controller for EuroMedOnline, a small network of pharmacy websites that are not connected to MottoNetwork. EuroMedOnline claims it provides “US customers with the convenience of home shopping for all their regular medication in a secure and safe way. All our physicians and pharmacies are fully U.S. Licensed.†It’s alleged that after placing orders on Chervenkova’s website (which, because it displays the same wording about requiring a valid prescription that’s cited in the indictment, could refer to euromedonline.com), customers received prescription drugs based solely on the medical questionnaire, and often these prescriptions were issued by doctors not residing in the customers’ jurisdiction. (Some Internet pharmacy website operators seem to cut and paste content from other, unrelated websites for use on their FAQ pages, and in this case, we also found the exact prescription-requirement text on a handful of PharmaWeb unapproved Internet pharmacy websites such as canada-pharmacies-online.com, but this appears to be a coincidence.)

As for the products on offer in the pharmacy scheme, purchases by undercover agents in 2012 are alleged to have resulted in completed orders for Butalbital, a controlled substance, from websites run by some of the five operators listed above. But it’s important to note that even selling noncontrolled prescription-only drugs (Fioricet, for example) without a valid prescription violates US law. In fact, an undercover agent in this case successfully ordered Soma from one of the websites in 2011, before it became a controlled substance, and was able to obtain it without a valid prescription; orders for Soma appear among the conspiracy charges for several of the website operators. This underscores the falsehood that as long as pharmacy website operators do not offer controlled substances without requiring a prescription based on a prior in-person examination, they are staying on the right side of the law. Furthermore, because a valid prescription is required to purchase any prescription drug, a medical “consultation†(by a physician who has no relationship with the patient) is not an acceptable practice, as evident from this case.

Riccio is scheduled to appear in court in Manhattan on Dec. 6 and could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted, according to a statement from the DEA’s Robert G. Koval and Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

“As alleged, this multimillion-dollar Internet pharmacy pill scheme involved pharmacists and doctors who placed cash over care by partnering with corrupt website operators to peddle massive quantities of addictive pain pills without valid prescriptions,†Bharara said in the statement. “We will not tolerate the violation of laws and regulations governing the pharmaceutical industry, and [the] arrests underscore our ongoing commitment to pursuing those who illegally put profit over public health and safety.â€

Websites in the MottoNetwork, PGW Management and EuroMedOnline networks will remain rogue, and LegitScript will continue to monitor websites in these networks for ongoing activity.

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Hey I did some research and I found the actual court documents of the Hellertown charges for online rx. check it out it lists some peoples names but doesnt say which web sites. There are a couple of websites that have shut down a few hundred websites that do online rx. here is the link it is a PDF file link.

wfmz.com/blob/view/-/17605874/data/1/-/iofk2s/-/Indictment-document--U-S--v--Peter-Riccio--et--al.pdf

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Well..I think cartadmin is about to lose a very loyal customer. No phone calls or emails for my husbands rx. I think he's over the worst of it and he's been taking them for 7 yrs. It helps to use some clonopin and sleep as much as possible. Making a new year pledge. We are all getting off the tramadol. We Can Do It! Detox is bad,but once you're done, you're Done! Good luck guys. Oh yeah, that excederin with caffeine trick, Mary Jane and clonopin do help. Just try to rest and sleep as much as possible.makes the time go by quicker.

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@ #61 tracie - "there are many pharmacies now sending supplies. I've received orders everyday for the past 3 days ( i had placed several orders with several providers in desparation). I will discuss in personal email if needed."

I dont see your email address, can you email me with the names of some pharmacies who are shipping? {edited for privacy}

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It's ALREADY BEEN TAKEN UP WITH ATTORNEYS don't YOU know that why this is all happening? It called the Ryan Hiaght act or bill something like that. Because 1, I said 1, child got addicted to an online med and ordered over and over for a year, then died from an overdose, this Government has begun shutting down NON-Brick and Mortar Pharmacies. You’re NOT doing anything NEW, you idiot! Your just only now realizing what some other idiot did before you and the consequences of that act are NOW AFFECTING YOU. SO you think you'll GET A LAWYER! GOOD FREAKING LUCK! There's always ONE of you in a crowd who ALWAYS ruins it for the rest of us. You can ride the tails of the Ryan Hiaght Law!

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Hey, if you still know of websites that are sending meds pls email me. Thank you!

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Do you know if any of the Health Solutions networks are up and running? They just don't seem to be moving.

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Hey there. I am not sure how to do that without it showing for all to see. Any I info would be great!

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I can't even get through to the cartadmin operators. Keep getting the same message over and over and over. It's getting stupid, they don't return calls either.

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tina, can you email me through this site? I will tell you that the cartadmin affiliates are up and running. also, {edited for policy reasons} is supplying #90 only-prices are real high though. i refuse to pay the really high prices. also, if you are willing to try an iop, i do know of some reliable ones.

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Lindy I think if you go in with the attitude of wanting to be done with them, and are honest with your doc, he will help you.

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I know you ALL have everyone's best interest at heart but please remember "helping someone out" is distributing prescribed meds without a license. Idk if you can do personal messages on here, but that probably is the best way to do things. This was not related to a stock or manufacturing problem. The major hub in Hellerstown Pennsylvania was busted for prescribing without a close enough doctor patient relationship and money laundering. The FBI, IRS, and DEA are all over this now and while supply may be back for now, it is only a matter of time before tram is made controlled. I am soo not trying to be the downer here. Just don't want to see anyone get in trouble. If you don't believe me just look it up online.

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Yea I know how u feel. Im thinking about it to. Im scared though of my dr gettin mad at me for it and not helping me. Id love to get off them. But its hard tryin to wean myself off them so far! I hv 16 left and I think im just gonna keep minimizing till gone and making it a new year resolution to myself to get off them! Ive been taking them everyday 6-8 a day for 7yrs now. And I want to b done with them. I can deal with my pain a different natural way! Its not healthy doin what I do to deal with my bad knees, migraines and ovarian cycsts ive been dealing with for along time now. And my OBGYN is the one who prescribed them to me originally. And it was over from there.... I shoulda stopped when I was able to :"( so mad at myself for letting it get this bad : (

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there are many pharmacies now sending supplies. I've received orders everyday for the past 3 days ( i had placed several orders with several providers in desparation). I now have more than I need. If anyone lives in my area, I am willing to help you. Just email me. Im not going to post the names either for the same reasons Keith isn't. I will discuss in personal email if needed. good luck everyone and hang in there. I know its easy for me to say since I've finally got a supply. sorry you are feeling sooo bad, I empathize and sympathize.

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I've used the marijuana trick and it works for awhile, it sucks for me because RLS is why I started taking tramadol in the first place. Seroquel has helped me get sleep in the past, I'm going to a doctor Monday and trying to get off tramadol so I can stop being a slave to this "non narcotic" medicine.

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I have a few pharmacies that are currently filling orders for tramadol but will not disclose then here due to people like "ROB" who will complain to the FDA, and Class Law Suit Attorneys who blame them for "Price Gouging" and their addictions. Sorry.

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Muscle Relaxers and hot baths :"( its hard I know but online says if u stay active and sweat that it helps alot to. Also if u can get ur hands on it and are desperate enough. Smoking marijuana helps alot with the withdrawal symptoms. Ive just tried stayin busy and if it gets really bad ill take a muscle relaxer or a hot bath that helps with my RLS : (

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Lindy how do you deal with the RLS?

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