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| Montgomery For more than a year Montgomery city officials have been flouting state and federal laws by importing cheaper drugs from Canada. Yesterday in Montgomery, the Food and Drug Administration and various state, national and Canadian pharmacist groups launched a massive PR campaign aimed at convincing consumers that �that� is a prescription for disaster. They plan to blanket the state�s pharmacies with more than 630-thousand posters, flyers, and prescription bag inserts that warn of the safety dangers in imported drugs. WBHM�s Tanya Ott talked with Kerry Prickett, president-elect of the Alabama Pharmacy Association, about their concerns.

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On May 5, 2004, attorneys general from 18 states sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, asking him to allow states to import low-cost prescription drugs from Canada. Read the New York Times coverage of the request here.

~Tanya Ott, May 6, 2004