I just wanted to let you all know that I received my 60 tablets from pharma-orders.com .
I found it quite odd that the tablet sheets were stuck together with tape, actually it looked like some worker had snatched them from their pharmafactory and discreetly mailed the goods in an envelope. Anyway it read "Intas pharmaceuticals, India" on the label and the company claims to be one of the top pharmaceutical companies in India, so I popped a pill (200mg) and waited for results (btw I waited especially for a time of day when I was feeling overly drowsy again). After 30 minutes the effects came on and after an hour I definately felt very awake and also full of intention to do something productive. I could also notice some euphoria, but I'm thinking it was rather from my enthousiasm that it was working.
The drug seems in many aspects similiar to methylphenidate, but with the exception of increasing BP, pulse and causing much nervousness (there was some jitteriness though). Overall it looks like a cleaner version of Ritalin, but again very very similiar to it.
Just out of pure interest does anyone have an idea why Indian pharmaceutical companies sell modafinil for almost 10 times less costly than European and American, is it because they're just manufacturing the molecule without a patent?
I think it is, in general, a BAD idea to import medicine from international sources...your local pharmacy is the best way to go. The Internet is far too faceless and profit too much of an incentive to expect to get reliable medicines. There are, I am sure, a lot of fakes coming into the US. A company could earn a LOT of the business from this forum if they were to submit samples of their tablets to an independent laboroatory to be quantified for purity. Would anyone else like to chip in to test the Sun/Intas product (or any other brand)? The cost would be about $300 to get the number of mg in each tablet.
Someone could submit a sample here:
http://www.integrate...aceuticals.htmlI am in no way affilated with any company selling modafinil online...and I don't want to be either. If you want to gamble, that's your choice and the risk is yours to take. Importing modafinil into the US can mean jail time and fines.
The risks are summarized below:
Combating Counterfeit Drugs:
http://nootropics.ip...p?showtopic=493http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13099555/June 2, 2006
Following the trail of counterfeit drugsvideo
http://www.fda.gov/o...terfeit/qa.htmlCounterfeit Drugs Questions and Answers
http://www.who.int/m.../2003/fs275/en/Substandard and counterfeit medicines
http://www.ericturke...rfeit-drugs.htmCounterfeit Drug Resource Page
How Fake Drugs Can Make It To Your Medicine Cabinet
India does not recognize patents. That's why it's so cheap.
The way that company mails stuff I think they try to make it look inconspicuous.
By the way:
cmorera has ordered from "indianmeds4u" and got
what appeared to be the exact same product that pharma-orders delivers (a Sun product marketed by Intas). I am pretty sure they cross out some information because they don't want the medicine to be traced to them if it is seized.
Edited by nootropikamil, 14 September 2006 - 12:39 AM.