If this is where you are…
If an offer pushes you to pay before answering basic questions, keep the page and its terms. Work through the missing answers before making a decision.
Beware an offer saying “no prescription required”
To dispense a prescription drug, federal law requires a valid prescription, as of September 2026.[a]
A prescription is an order from a person legally allowed to order medicine. Ask how that person reviews your health before writing it.[a]
Approval words that do not match the product
Advertising a made-to-order medicine as FDA-approved misstates its status: FDA approval is absent for these medicines, as of September 2026.[b]
FDA means Food and Drug Administration. Putting a facility on that agency’s register does not approve its medicines, as of September 2026.[b]
Ask for the actual product and approval record. If the answer keeps changing, save the claims you were given.
Research labels paired with treatment claims
In letters checked in September 2026, the FDA said sellers broke drug law by offering unapproved products for people to use, despite research-only labels.[c]
Those letters contain allegations against particular firms, not final court findings.[c]
A research-only label does not give permission to use a product for treatment.[c]
Bring the product name and the offer to the person treating you and ask whether it can legally be supplied.
A missing pharmacy name or an unusually low price
According to FDA reports, online-care users may lack the name of the pharmacy or other place that made their medicine.[d]
Ask for that name before checking its state record.
The FDA flags prices that look implausibly cheap; price alone, however, cannot establish that an offer is a scam.[e]
Read the price together with the prescription process, pharmacy record, and written terms.