Buying necessary medication on the darkweb

Hi! I'm a writer for the Guardian newspaper, and I'm looking into a possible story about people who are forced to buy medication they need for serious medical conditions on the darkweb. I would love to speak either to vendors or to buyers who have gone through this. Have any of you had this experience?


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[16 Points] throwawayk5zq47j6wd3:

Please stop posting about the DNMs in the media...


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[6 Points] ventrue05:

plenty of kids take cannabis.


[6 Points] an_illegal_smile:

The Graun just isn't giving up, is it? :) This sounds better than the gun story proposed the other day, at least.

I could be a wiseass and say that an enormous chunk of the people buying weed on the darknet are doing it to treat serious conditions, but I doubt that weed and the crying need for its legalization is the type of drug seeking you want to discuss in your story. People do pop up here and ask for non-recreational drugs, I have seen requests for everything from a rare and tremendously expensive cancer medicine (ipumilab), to people searching for Charlotte's Web and CBD oils for their children with seizure disorders, to a friend of mine whom I'm trying to track down thyroid replacement hormone for. Most DNM shoppers are just here to buy a little fun, but there's a fair amount of people (mainly in the USA) who are so utterly screwed for health insurance that they've taken this route to try to get drugs they know they need. The markup on the DNM is higher, so it's usually not the drug they can't afford, it's the series of physician visits some drugs require for monitoring. Many doctors refuse to even see or treat patients with no insurance. That's starting to change with Obamacare, but a number of red states are actively fighting the implementation of that plan tooth and nail (eg, by refusing to accept federal funds to extend medicaid to all of their state's uninsured, including employed adults.)


[5 Points] furthur2:

Not necessarily forced to, but for some meds it is cheaper. Dr charges ~$200/visit just for an rx refill which insurance won't cover, controlled so every month at least. Then theres the cost of the meds, even with insurance, still adds up.


[2 Points] travis-:

Dude on here the other week saying he gets his asthma puffers on the dnm because they're cheaper and work better.


[2 Points] justadoper:

Depends of what you understand as medication and as serious medical conditions. If fully blown schizophrenia/psychosis episodes followed by different perception distortions counts and high CBD cannabis strains counts - I have a story to tell. About how my package got seized, how I stopped buying things in deepweb, how I didn't turn out good with meditation and other drug-less alternatives, how I often drink myself asleep, just because it is legal.


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[1 Points] snackburros:

There's a much bigger clear-ish-net community of drug buyers who fit your description. For the most part people I know who were in a situation who were actually FORCED - as in - without alternatives - to purchase meds over DNM are the people who are traveling overseas and for one reason or another lose or run out of their prescription and are unable to fill an equivalent of it. I've had this happen once and wound up in the ER in China because I couldn't convince a Chinese doctor that my alprazolam prescription was really 4mg a day (.4mg pills are all you can get there, but when I ran out a few days later I seized and somehow I wound up on Lithium and they gave me an overdose of it). I didn't order from darknet though, this was pre-DNM, I got my script after they realized that I wasn't kidding. A friend of mine went to the UK, stayed a little longer than expected, and ran out of Risperdone and found it much quicker to just buy it off one of DNMs.


[1 Points] None:

Obamacare fixed all of that....free drugs for errrrone!!!!!!!


[1 Points] nugymmer:

I hazard a guess that the necessary meds being, most likely, weed or benzos...yeah you need the DNMs for those...but most script meds don't require DNM purchases...Most of that stuff can be found on the clarinet.


[1 Points] 2005C:

"Necessary drugs" are bought online from Mexico or India, rarely on the DNMs.


[1 Points] AmazinPride:

Hi, which country is your newspaper based out of?


[0 Points] Zanman231:

I seriously think there should be a ban on journalists like this looking to put the dnms further into the mass media, seriously. GO be a journalist and do your own fucking homework by meticulously picking through thousands of comments. GTFO of here