Recent research by healthcare company Pfizer shows that more than one in seven British adults surveyed (15%) has admitted to bypassing the healthcare system to get hold of prescription only medicine without a prescription. This is a shocking trend as fake medicines purchased online can contain harmful ingredients such as rat poison3 and can cause harm to patients and even lead to death.

Pfizer launched earlier this year a cinema ad of a man coughing up a dead rat after taking medicine bought from an illicit website.

The ad has now made it to our TV screens and is considered so More >