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A 57-year-old Canadian has died a month after she consumed tainted pills bought on the net. Marcia Bergeron died of poisoning after taking drugs labelled as anti-anxiety and sedative pills, bought from a site featuring fake endorsements from medical agencies.

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    thaw1 year, 6 months ago

    this is a good question. all i've heard is a rumour that it was a drug that she couldn't get a prescription for. (meaning that she was trying to self prescribe this drug) or the drug that she thought it was. the site was originally thought to be from quebec. but later it was thought to be from possibly china. the url's apparently are changed every few days, to make tracing them difficult.

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      Auzie1 year, 6 months ago

      Becuase maybe she's too old and can't DRIVE to the store.

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