Medicinal product of the street: a confusing noun!

Par malumiereetmonsalut Le 09/05/2023 à 10:32 0

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One of the means of prevention used by health specialists to help users avoid being the main cause of the ailments that afflict them, consists in dissuading them from getting supplies of medicines from unauthorized sales outlets. Is it to favour a particular sector or simply an effort to raise awareness in order to prevent choices that could have dramatic consequences?

Considered for some as the best way to recover health not only because of their proximity but also of their affordable costs, medicinal product of the street appear as a benefit of circumstance whose semantic song deserves to be better understood to avoid amalgams conveyed by confusing points of view.

What is a medicinal product of the street?

Literally and even in a basic way, the medicinal product is what makes it possible to recover health, and the street, a traffic lane. By associating the three words in such a way as to obtain a group of words in addition to the use of the preposition of and the definite article the, we realize two things: firstly, it is a set of products which do not belong, or which no longer belong of the regulatory circuit for the manufacture and marketing of medicinal products. Second, these are products that belong to the street.

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And since the street as traffic infrastructure cannot produce medicine, we conclude by saying that it is certainly a set of products that have either fraudulently left the conventional environment to find themselves in another unconventional, or either drugs that are produced fraudulently in uncertified establishments, routed and marketed fraudulently on the streets.

Medicinal product of the street or counterfeit medicine: what are the differences?

According to the World Health Organization, a counterfeit medicine is one whose “identity and/or origin is deliberately and fraudulently falsified, whether it is a brand name product or a generic. The fact that a drug is marketed on the street does not ipso facto mean that it is counterfeit drug for two reasons: first, a quality product that arrives fraudulently in an unconventional marketing circuit is not harmful to health. Secondly, in countries where the informal sector is the main source of income for citizens, many people choose to get supplies from conventional outlets to resell in outlying neighbourhoods and villages. To this must be added the products made from natural plants which are also sold in the streets or by traveling sales Men. The street has never hurt anyone. It is the Men who take advantage of the street to do deplorable things. The street and the medicinal product are victims of Hypocrisy and the egocentrism of Men. A person must not be arrested solely on the basis that he or she is selling products on the street without it being proven that these products are harmful for health.

The informal sector must be further supported, so that it too, in turn, can truly contribute to the eradication of counterfeit. Instead of saying medicinal product of the street, it would be better to say, counterfeit drugs to make the difference between those who sell good quality products in the streets, and those who choose to sell counterfeit or dubious origin products on the street.

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