Diet Pill Acomplia Now Widely Available in Mexican Border Pharmacies
Diet drug Acomplia (rimonabant), which seems at best months away from sale in the United States, is now widely available in pharmacies just across the Mexican border. Readers increasingly are sending us reports on their experiences purchasing the highly anticipated diet pill in Mexican towns just across the border from California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
In contrast to our last report on this back in March, when many Mexican pharmacies had not heard of Acomplia or had not received it yet, the latest reports suggest that if you stumble across a pharmacy that does not have it in stock, all you probably need to do is check the pharmacy across the street. A sampling of Mexican prices for the diet drug found most hovering right around $117 for the standard package of 28 pills, making purchases in Mexican border towns -- if you live nearby -- a less expensive option than purchasing the diet pill by mail order from Europe.
The lowest price we have heard of in a Mexican pharmacy is $110, so if you find it at a dramatically lower price, you might wish to keep in mind the repeated FDA warnings that many "brand-name" drugs purchased in Mexican border towns -- even those in perfect packaging -- have been found to be counterfeit. Mexican border pharmacies have traditionally shown little interest in such niceties as prescriptions, and that seems to continue to be the case -- even though one reader informed us that the Acomplia box had a removable plastic-band label that said "Prescription from a U.S. doctor required."