{"id":130,"date":"2025-01-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fmeds.colibrity.com\/fake-medicines-breaking-free-from-emotional-traps\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:02:04","slug":"fake-medicines-breaking-free-from-emotional-traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fmeds.colibrity.com\/en\/fake-medicines-breaking-free-from-emotional-traps\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake medicines: breaking free from emotional traps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#StopFakeMeds #ThinkSmart<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t fall for the seductive promises of the death pharmaceuticals dealers: &#8220;It&#8217;s cheaper,&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s easy to get,&#8221; &#8220;It still works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fake medicines sellers use 3 powerful emotional levers to influence us: despair &#8211; denial &#8211; shame.<\/p>\n<p>1\/ Despair is the weapon to sell.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a powerful control tool. We&#8217;ll do anything for less pain, to heal or to care for our suffering loved ones, without knowing that the drugs we buy will kill us!<\/p>\n<p>2\/ Denial is the weapon of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>We use denial as a refuge: we look for savings; we prefer to convince ourselves that &#8220;it will work&#8221;; we prefer to believe the seller or the website rather than activate our vigilance.<\/p>\n<p>Traffickers and sellers claim that they wouldn&#8217;t sell these drugs if they were dangerous; that it&#8217;s just an unauthorized product; or that we can&#8217;t afford an original drug.<\/p>\n<p>3\/ Shame is the weapon of silence.<\/p>\n<p>Shame is twofold. The first shame is about our bodies. We are influenced by the incessant algorithms of social networks to buy such and such a product, to lose weight, to have such and such musculature, skin type, hair.<\/p>\n<p>For example, platforms like TikTok or Instagram show that the people &#8220;like&#8221; the most are often slim, young, sexualized bodies \/ spectacular body transformations \/ miracle tips for losing 5kg in 3 days.<\/p>\n<p>We try to deal with all this alone, because the doctor will think we&#8217;re obsessed with our image. We buy medical products outside the legal channels and put our lives at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Then comes the second shame, that of feeling guilty: we don&#8217;t dare say that we&#8217;ve bought medical products outside the legal channels, so we keep quiet and isolate ourselves. But we&#8217;re not guilty; we are victims of criminals, and we can die as a result!<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Sword, a 46-year-old mother, was almost killed by a fake weight-loss product. She had the courage to share her story to help others! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4g4r4251p3o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4g4r4251p3o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Francisco Lopez Reyes, a.k.a. &#8220;Frank&#8221;, took advantage of the situation to set up an international trafficking operation for counterfeit drugs containing fentanyl in the heart of New York. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/us-attorney-announces-charges-against-18-defendants-scheme-manufacture-and-distribute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/us-attorney-announces-charges-ag&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s break out of our habits.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get away from our certainty that medication equals quality and efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be vigilant. 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