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...Bryan here. A feisty 73-year-old long-distance trucker and former reading teacher from Mesa, Ariz., he had heard about Nuevo Laredo's prescription-drug bonanza from his trucker pals. Clutching a plastic bag, he is pleased with his purchases, which include Augmentin, Proscar and that modern elixir, Viagra. Nearby, Bill Gibson picks up Tagamet, the stomach medication, for a mere $7.50--far less than the $62 he says he would pay back in Oklahoma City, Okla., "even though it's made by the same company as the stuff...
...Mauritania can sell prescription drugs at a fraction of their cost in the U.S. Meanwhile, Americans with prescriptions in hand continue to cross the border each day in an ironic twist on the American Dream: leaving the U.S. in pursuit of happiness--or at least cheaper vials of Viagra...
INTERNET COME-ONS While some men may be thrilled, doctors are alarmed. During a two-week period, more than 75 Internet sites were selling Viagra directly to consumers without a prescription. And more than a third of them didn't provide any online medical evaluation. The big problem: Viagra can pose serious risks for men with heart conditions and those on hypertension drugs...
...chemist Carl Djerassi, synthesizer of the birth-control pill. For that reason, he predicts, drug companies will turn from contraception to conception in an effort to help older women have babies. As for aging men, they'll have at their disposal libido and sex-performance boosters that will make Viagra seem like baby aspirin...
What price are we going to pay for giving this Viagra of the mind to our children [THE I.Q. GENE?, Sept. 13]? I'm not talking about the financial burden involved in genetically making kids smarter. What about the well-being of a child? Will children suddenly seem as if they are 40 when they are really 14? How about the mental stress that so many of today's geniuses complain of? Are we solving a problem for our children (was there one in the first place?), or are we only creating problems tenfold? EMIL VON MALTITZ, AGE 19 Buckhorn...