{"id":74285,"date":"2020-09-24T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/labeled-research-chemicals-doping-drugs-sold-openly-on-amazon-com\/"},"modified":"2023-02-17T17:02:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:02:35","slug":"labeled-research-chemicals-doping-drugs-sold-openly-on-amazon-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/labeled-research-chemicals-doping-drugs-sold-openly-on-amazon-com\/","title":{"rendered":"#Labeled \u2018research\u2019 chemicals, doping drugs sold openly on Amazon.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3405968359c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3405968359c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/labeled-research-chemicals-doping-drugs-sold-openly-on-amazon-com\/#From_experimental_racehorse_drug_to_Amazoncom\" >From experimental racehorse drug to Amazon.com\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/labeled-research-chemicals-doping-drugs-sold-openly-on-amazon-com\/#Prosecutors_call_%E2%80%9Cresearch%E2%80%9D_label_a_ruse\" >Prosecutors call \u201cresearch\u201d label a ruse<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/labeled-research-chemicals-doping-drugs-sold-openly-on-amazon-com\/#%E2%80%9CUnwitting_guinea_pigs%E2%80%9D_for_untested_substances\" >\u201cUnwitting guinea pigs\u201d for untested substances<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/labeled-research-chemicals-doping-drugs-sold-openly-on-amazon-com\/#Amazon_has_long_struggled_to_keep_bad_products_off_its_pages\" >Amazon has long struggled to keep bad products off its pages<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s not for the needle-shy.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs are sold in vials, and users reconstitute the powder in sterile water, suck the substance into a syringe, stick the needle under their skin, and blast it into their body.<\/p>\n<p>These are peptides, short chains of amino acids that, when made naturally in the body, serve a wide range of functions, including stimulating the release of human growth hormone to build muscle and repair injury.\u00a0Olympic athletes,\u00a0bodybuilders, and\u00a0major leaguers\u00a0have sought out synthetic versions or variants of peptides, easily manufactured in a lab, in an attempt to speed recovery from injury and gain a competitive edge.<\/p>\n<p>Regulators have a word for it:\u00a0doping.<\/p>\n<p>The Markup found 66 listings for peptides available for sale on Amazon in August and September, even though the company bans injectable drugs and told The Markup in May it would start cracking down on peptide listings. The peptides we found are not on the FDA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roved drug list, and it is illegal to sell misbranded or unapproved new drugs. Several are classified as doping drugs by the World Anti-Doping Agency.<\/p>\n<p>We found sellers by the likes of Paradigm Peptides, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> posts include bulky bodybuilders and a claim that its peptide is best for \u201cweight lifting,\u201d Pharma Grade Peptides, which offered $120 vials of peptides from a business connected to a Los Angeles home that recently sold for $2.5 million, and Quality Research Chemicals, which offered an array of peptides from a signless storefront neighboring an insurance agent in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>While almost every peptide listing claimed to be for \u201cresearch\u201d purposes or \u201clab\u201d use, reviews and product questions for at least 18 listings clearly showed people were taking it themselves \u2014 which experts say is dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>After showing Amazon our findings, company spokesperson Mary Kate McCarthy said the listings were \u201callowed in our store for laboratory or research use only and not for human injection or consumption,\u201d despite the evidence of human consumption that we presented to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not sanction customer misuse or abuse of products,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cHowever, out of an abundance of caution, we decided to no longer allow these products and have been removing them since, as we have in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every one of the listings has since come down. McCarthy did not comment on how many vials had been sold before the company took action.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Read:\u00a0<span class=\"c-message_attachment__title\"><span dir=\"auto\">Are EVs too expensive? Here are 5 common myths, debunked<\/span>]<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_experimental_racehorse_drug_to_Amazoncom\"><\/span><strong>From experimental racehorse drug to Amazon.com\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>While the peptides we found are not FDA approved, early enthusiasts believe the drugs may soon replace certain prescriptions, hacking into the body\u2019s innate healing chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Medical researchers are examining peptides for\u00a0many possible applications. Researchers are studying the efficacy of synthetic peptides to assist in-vitro fertilization, reduce body weight in patients predisposed to obesity , and for multiple approaches to treating cancer. Earlier this year, Cuba claimed its biotechnologists had discovered\u00a0a peptide\u00a0that may be helping to curb deaths from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>But the enthusiasm for untested peptides is premature, experts warn, and has ignited an illicit underground market for the drugs. About a decade ago, competitive athletes raced to peptides for a performance boost after steroids became easily detectable and, along with human growth hormone, became strictly regulated by sports agencies and federal law.<\/p>\n<p>Olivier Rabin, the director of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> at the World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA, said that TB-500, one of the substances we found for sale on Amazon.com, was originally sold as an experimental veterinary drug for racehorse recovery. But when a package of the substance was discovered by customs officials en route to a Tour de France cyclist in 2009, officials opened an investigation and WADA subsequently banned the drug. A slew of peptides are now banned.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, major league baseball players including\u00a0Alex Rodriguez,\u00a0Braves pitcher Andrew McKirahan,\u00a0Dodgers pitcher Josh Ravin, and\u00a0Indians outfielder Marlon Byrd\u00a0have been accused of using peptides. The drugs have made their way into doping cases in\u00a0track and field,\u00a0cycling\u00a0and\u00a0soccer, and eventually into neighborhood gyms, where weightlifters and other hardcore hobbyists have an unproven faith that peptides help with everything from tanning, to life extension, to enhancing sexual performance, to building muscle and healing sports injuries.<\/p>\n<p>But users also risk potential legal consequences: For example, in Texas, possession of drugs that are unsafe for self-medication can be considered a misdemeanor offense.<\/p>\n<p>Other users opt to obtain peptides more formally with a prescription and through a compounding pharmacy willing to make a drug, though there\u2019s confusion among practitioners we spoke to about the legality of this route. Most of the drugs we found are not approved for compounding and,\u00a0according to FDA regulations, must still go through the agency\u2019s approval process\u2014like any other new drug.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, providers say getting a prescription ensures a degree of quality and precision in dosing. It\u2019s costly, though, to remove potentially harmful manufacturing by-products and to have a third party test the batch for quality. So the risk-tolerant are looking to the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Some appear to be turning one another on to peptides through\u00a0Reddit threads,\u00a0Facebook groups, and\u00a0YouTube testimonials.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how Isidro Rendon, a San Antonio amateur bodybuilder whose nagging shoulder pain was keeping him out of the gym, caught on to the drug. Rendon said he learned about peptides\u2019 reputation for promoting healing from a\u00a0YouTube video\u00a0hosted by a competitive bodybuilder he admires. (Google spokesperson Farshad Shadloo told The Markup that while YouTube does restrict content describing the recreational use of steroids, the video in question \u201cdoes not violate our Community Guidelines.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>With a few clicks, Rendon was able to find peptides BPC 157 and TB-500 on Amazon.com. This wasn\u2019t some backroom drug deal. This was Amazon \u2014 a company Redon knew and trusted. And reviews showed others did, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany said it was safe with great feedback,\u201d Rendon said in an interview with The Markup. \u201cSo I just went for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rendon did not respond to follow-up questions about whether he knew the drugs were not FDA approved and the legal issues of obtaining them.<\/p>\n<p>After his shipment arrived, he followed up with\u00a0a five-star review\u00a0of his own in January, his bowling-ball biceps taking up much of his profile photo. \u201cTwo weeks of use and shoulder pain &amp; knee pain greatly improved,\u201d he wrote. \u201cPure as gold.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Prosecutors_call_%E2%80%9Cresearch%E2%80%9D_label_a_ruse\"><\/span><strong>Prosecutors call \u201cresearch\u201d label a ruse<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Amazon.com has a sizable storefront for industrial and scientific products, from microscopes to dental equipment, but few if any reviews on the peptide listings say anything about lab research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have had leaky gut and IBS for the past 3 years,\u201d wrote John Sullivan on a listing for\u00a05\u00a0milligrams of BPC 157, a peptide not approved by the FDA, in July. \u201cThis product is the first to lessen my symptoms considerably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018animal\u2019 I gave this to, noticed greatly reduced pain within a couple of hours from a lower back injury that had plagued him,\u201d\u00a0wrote Sharkly Buyer\u00a0on the same listing Rendon reviewed for TB-500, winking at the seller\u2019s \u201cNot for human consumption\u201d disclaimer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis product alone saved the animal from inevitably having to undergo more costly less beneficial medical treatment at the hands of ignorant doctors who foolishly shun all performance enhancing substances,\u201d the buyer concluded.<\/p>\n<p>All but nine of the listings we found on Amazon.com claimed that the drugs were for research or were lab chemicals or otherwise were not for human consumption. The rest did not have these specific disclaimers but listed the drugs under Amazon\u2019s \u201cIndustrial and Scientific\u201d category.<\/p>\n<p>But owners of other sites who\u2019ve claimed peptides were being sold for research have still faced prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe disclaimer was just a simple disguise and cover,\u201d said Sam Louis, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas who prosecuted peptide sellers several years ago before joining a private practice. Louis explained that such cases <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly require showing that a defendant intended or had reason to know the drug was for people, and prosecutors point to communication or advertisements to prove the point.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, an Illinois man was indicted after he advertised peptides he\u2019d imported from China to bodybuilders, selling direct to consumers on sites (since taken down) like aminooutpost.com and genesispeptides.net,\u00a0according to the indictment\u00a0filed in the United States Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He\u00a0ultimately pleaded guilty to selling misbranded drugs, among other charges, and was sentenced to probation and community service.<\/p>\n<p>In another\u00a0indictment, filed in the United States Court for The District of Maryland, a Florida man who paid bodybuilders for endorsements and frequented their conventions was nabbed after selling peptides to a government agent. A raid of his home revealed $2\u00a0million of misbranded drugs, and in 2015, he\u00a0too pleaded guilty\u00a0and received six months of home confinement.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy, the Amazon spokesperson, declined to comment on whether Amazon was aware sellers \u201cdisguised\u201d drug listings under research labels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe require all products offered in our store to comply with applicable laws and regulations and developed industry-leading tools to prevent unsafe or non-compliant products from being listed in our stores,\u201d McCarthy said. She did not explain why some peptide listings had been live and selling to customers for years.<\/p>\n<p>The Markup attempted to reach all the peptide sellers we found, through Amazon\u2019s message platform and when possible, via phone, social media, and standalone business websites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone was using my son\u2019s account without my knowledge and selling the items you are questioning,\u201d said Yossi Segelman in an email response to questions about Pharma Grade Peptides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe items have since been removed and the account is now inactive,\u201d Segelman said.<\/p>\n<p>Another seller, Pendmo Supplies, shuttered its entire business after being contacted by The Markup.<\/p>\n<p>A customer service representative who gave her name as Jennifer and declined to give her last name answered the phone at Paradigm Peptides. She told The Markup the company sells peptides \u201cunder a research umbrella,\u201d which she believed kept them in compliance with Amazon policies and U.S. law.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer also acknowledged the market is really for human use, adding she takes two herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeptides are administered via injection,\u201d she said. Otherwise the \u201cstomach acid would destroy it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Trident Peptide, who declined to give a name, responded to an email The Markup sent to\u00a0info@tridentpeptide.com, saying Trident Peptides makes an effort to enforce the research-only rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe try to then stop selling our products to customers who make reviews clearly showing they abused the product,\u201d the representative wrote. \u201cHowever, on Amazon, they use nicknames on their accounts, so their real name is not the buyer name 75% of the time. Also checking this is extremely hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CUnwitting_guinea_pigs%E2%80%9D_for_untested_substances\"><\/span><strong>\u201cUnwitting guinea pigs\u201d for untested substances<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe thought of otherwise young healthy individuals taking such products is extremely distressing,\u201d Amy Eichner, of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, said in an email to The Markup. \u201cMessing with hormones can have myriad long term effects including infertility, changes in growth rates, suppression of your own natural hormones systems, and probably many other unknown side effects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Louis, the former prosecutor, said consumers looking to the internet to get the drugs a \u201clittle bit cheaper\u201d are putting themselves at risk for harmful drug interactions, unintended side effects, and the consequences of poor manufacturing. He once prosecuted a case involving a different drug sold online that contained gypsum, a mineral commonly used in\u00a0chalk and drywall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really can be a life and death decision,\u201d Louis said.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon declined to comment on the safety issues posed by peptide listings.<\/p>\n<p>Some of its customers, reviews show, were worried. One customer wrote that he sought a lab report from the seller, only to be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bought 4 vials, and now they are in the trash can,\u201d wrote\u00a0the buyer, who identified himself as Samuel, in a review of BPC\u00a0157 last year. He wrote it would have been crazy to blindly trust them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not so mad to inject or ingest an unknown powder in my body,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time,\u00a0army joe38 wrote\u00a0in a review of the same product, \u201cI had a dangerous allergic reaction that needed to be treated with prednisone with this stuff. Poor quality control, contaminated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rand McClain, a regenerative and sports medicine physician in Santa Monica, Calif., says he frequently has to warn patients against buying peptides online, where sourcing and purity can be suspect. He has prescribed peptides to his patients from compounding pharmacies he trusts, and he believes that when used under proper medical supervision, peptides are safe and legal.<\/p>\n<p>Mclain said Amazon should be making sure sellers aren\u2019t trying to skirt U.S. drug laws with false disclaimers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazon needs to do a better job,\u201d Mclain said.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Amazon_has_long_struggled_to_keep_bad_products_off_its_pages\"><\/span><strong>Amazon has long struggled to keep bad products off its pages<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Amazon has had\u00a0a long\u00a0and\u00a0public\u00a0struggle\u00a0with keeping\u00a0counterfeit,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/12\/20\/tech\/amazon-fake-kids-products\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0unsafe<\/a>, and\u00a0banned items\u00a0off its e-commerce platform, where just about anyone can sign up to post just about anything. The e-commerce intelligence firm\u00a0Marketplace Pulse estimates\u00a0Amazon has about three million active third-party sellers worldwide\u2014a sprawling business policed through a combination of automated detection of problematic language and other risk signals and\u00a0workers tasked\u00a0with pulling things down after people complain.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy stated that Amazon stopped more than six billion \u201csuspected bad listings\u201d from posting last year,\u00a0an often cited statistic,\u00a0but\u00a0elsewhere the company\u00a0has acknowledged that \u201cbad actors\u201d have slipped past safeguards.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation\u00a0by The Markup earlier this year found Amazon\u2019s enforcement failures left open a backdoor to nearly a hundred listings for banned goods, including products to use drugs: marijuana bongs, dab kits used to inhale cannabis concentrates, and crackers that can be used to get high on nitrous oxide.<\/p>\n<p>Among the banned items we found on Amazon.com were two pill presses, one of which was dubiously labeled\u00a0a candymaker. It wasn\u2019t an isolated event. A pharmaceutical grade pill press that had been sold on Amazon.com a few years before, and before the company banned them, had been used to press fentanyl-laced counterfeit prescription opioids,\u00a0according to federal law enforcement. Officials said the drugs led to a mass overdose in Tennessee. At least two people died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may be more profitable to have the \u2018wild, wild west\u2019 of sales, but it\u2019s also much more dangerous for consumers,\u201d said Lori Wallach, director of the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen\u2019s Global Trade Watch.<\/p>\n<p>In May and as part of our earlier investigation, The Markup brought the sale of peptides to Amazon\u2019s attention, noting that people appeared to be injecting them. Company spokesperson Patrick Graham responded to our questions with a denial, saying it was \u201cnot true that we sold injectable drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did sell lab chemicals that were clearly marketed as being for research use only and not for human consumption,\u201d Graham wrote in an email. \u201cOut of an abundance of caution we are restricting them going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strength Products, one of the sellers The Markup identified in May, continued to operate on Amazon.com for weeks, hawking the same drugs in other posts. When The Markup again contacted Amazon about Strength Products in June, the storefront was shuttered. Strength Products did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>But The Markup found active listings for peptides on Amazon.com\u2014many with reviews indicating human consumption\u2014as recently as last week. More than a quarter of the peptide listings had been around for at least a year, showing the extent to which Amazon has failed over time to enforce its own rules.<\/p>\n<p>For its own part, Amazon has argued it is not liable for harm caused by third-party products sold on its website by invoking Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, claiming it\u2019s covered under the law, which states websites are not responsible for third-party speech that appears on their sites.\u00a0Recently, a\u00a0federal court\u00a0and\u00a0California court\u00a0have disagreed, and this summer\u00a0Amazon signaled\u00a0it may be amenable to legislation that would explicitly make online marketplaces liable for unsafe products\u2014as long as any rules also apply to its competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The Markup found Amazon\u2019s own customer tools were used to offer people what they needed to start dosing. Amazon\u2019s recommended items included those needed to inject the drug, such as bacteriostatic water and syringes, and complementary or competing options for peptides. In reviews and product question features, customers exchanged tips on how to use the drugs.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy, the Amazon spokesperson, said that the \u201cfrequently bought together\u201d feature is automated and based on customer behavior and that reviews that \u201cadvocate an illegal activity are prohibited by our guidelines and are removed when discovered either during our moderation process or when brought to our attention,\u201d adding those reviews have since been removed along with the listings.<\/p>\n<p>That didn\u2019t stop countless customers from viewing the information before the listings were pulled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Y]ou will need 10 mL of Sterile Water or equivalent, depending on the method of use,\u201d wrote\u00a0James Heisey, in an answer to another customer\u2019s question about how to reconstitute BPC\u00a0157.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour cartilage and tendons wouldn\u2019t be perfect with one bottle,\u201d added\u00a0Michael Carey\u00a0in response. \u201cIt does work and everyone\u2019s body is different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood for just about any tissue repair, for better results, combine with BPC\u00a0157,\u201d wrote an\u00a0anonymous reviewer\u00a0on a listing for TB-500 in July.<\/p>\n<p>One customer browsing\u00a0a peptide listing\u00a0thought to ask, \u201cshould I only buy peptides from licensed pharmacies?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The emphatic reply from another customer: \u201cyes, you should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/themarkup.org\/banned-bounty\/2020\/09\/17\/amazon-sales-peptides-doping-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">originally published on The Markup<\/a>\u00a0and was republished under the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives<\/a><a>\u00a0license.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pay.com\/blog\/ecommerce-statistics-and-trends-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18 Useful Ecommerce Stats and Facts for Businesses in 2023<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Technology category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/syndication\/2020\/09\/24\/labeled-research-chemicals-doping-drugs-sold-openly-on-amazon-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not for the needle-shy. The drugs are sold in vials, and users reconstitute the powder in sterile water, suck the substance into a syringe, stick the needle under their skin, and blast it into their body. 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