Your Emergency Prescription Drug Backup Plan

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“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.” Spanish Proverb

In January the Wall Street Journal noted that government bureau-twits have finally realized their overreach has had deadly consequences:

Pharmaceutical companies moved out of antibiotic development en masse in the past 15 years, citing high research costs, poor returns and onerous regulations. Consequently, the pipeline for new antibiotics in the US dried up.

Establishing Your Personal Prescription Drug Back-Up Supply
The last place you want to be dependent on when disaster strikes – whether it’s a natural disaster or a social breakdown – is your local pharmacy.

Pharmacies are magnets for thugs and looters. If you have to make a trek to your local pharmacy when riots have broken out, during a medical crisis, or after a major storm, you’re putting yourself in harm’s way.

During the summer 2011 London riots, pharmacies were among the top targets for rioters.
The same was true during the L.A. riots of the ’90s and in New Orleans during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.

The threat of a social breakdown aside, the actual drug supply at your pharmacy is in constant danger. Between an ever-increasing number of drug shortages and the alarming rise of major prescription drug heists — where criminals hit warehouses, shipping containers, even semi trucks carrying drugs — pharmacies struggle to keep a full inventory.

Suffice it to say that even if you and I have secured your financial assets and put away ample food reserves — but not taken effective steps to shore up your medical security — you are a sitting duck for pandemic disease, medical rationing, social chaos, Rx supply disruptions and more.
If anything big happens and you don’t have a supply on hand of the prescriptions you rely on, you’re in trouble. Read more at:

http://poormansurvivorblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/your-personal-backup-supply-plan-for.html