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Loopholes allow Web sites to sell drugs without doctor's visit.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
MIAMI _ Despite the opposition of most healthcare organizations, many Web sites offering prescription drugs appear to thrive in a gray zone where there is no federal legislation and only spotty state action.
''Washington just hasn't been interested,'' says Carmen Catizone, executive director of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, the state organizations that regulate pharmacists.
For a brief period two years ago, the mood in Washington was different. ''I'm absolutely opposed to these kind of sites,'' says University of Miami President Donna Shalala, who was secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration. She ...
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