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Generic vs Fake medicine

Walk into any pharmacy nowadays in search of a certain drug prescribed by a doctor. If the price is too high, the pharmacist will tell you of yet another prescription drug that works just the same but comes cheaper than the one requested. As a consumer, you are advised to buy medice from licensed drug-stores and always be receipted showing the name of the drug bought. Counterfeiting applies to both branded and generic products. These fake drugs may include products with or without  the correct ingredients, with deficient active ingredients or without active ingredients or with fake packaging. Sources of these fake drugs mostly originate from India, Colombia, Egypt, China and South America. Do you buy generic medicines? I do because they are cheaper than the branded ones.But do you know why they’re cheaper or lest you mistake them for fake medicine? Is it because they are of less quality or less effective than branded medicines? What is a generic medicine? It is basically a medi