Call for crackdown on web prescription drugs trade

An “explosion” of illicit prescription drugs being ordered online has led to demands for a crackdown.

Independent TD Clare Daly has called for custom and excise services to move against the supply of illicit drugs flowing from websites as a matter of urgency.

She urged Health Minister James Reilly to “increase custom and exercise supervision of commercial packaging operators in order to deal with the explosion of prescription drugs being ordered online and delivered within a 24-hour period”.