Pause when the offer avoids the hard questions

• Does it offer prescription medicine without requiring a prescription?
• Can it name the pharmacy and explain how to reach its pharmacist?
• Can it explain the medicine’s status without changing the subject?
• Can you ask the person treating you questions after receiving the product?

Dispensing prescription medicine without a valid prescription breaches the federal rule recorded September 26, 2026.

FDA’s online-pharmacy checks include access to a licensed pharmacist and a verifiable state pharmacy licence.

A compounded drug is medicine mixed or made to order. Calling it FDA-approved is false: it has no such approval, as checked September 26, 2026.

Pause if a seller offers a product for your treatment while its label says it is only for research. FDA letters available by September 26, 2026 challenged sellers making those treatment claims despite their research labels. Before going further, ask the prescriber what legal status this product has.

In its record checked September 26, 2026, FDA describes fake labels that invent a pharmacy or name a real pharmacy with no role in making the preparation.

• Ask what is included, what follows the offer and what commitment it requires.
• Leave the comparison unfinished if the medicine or pharmacy remains unnamed.

FDA lists very deep discounts among signals to consider together. A cheap quote by itself cannot tell you the offer is wrong.

Demands for payment only by bank transfer, wire, a payment app, gift card or cryptocurrency are a scam signal flagged by the Federal Trade Commission. Cryptocurrency is digital money.