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So, where I am: (Sweden)

- Online prescriptions are very cost-effective compared to retail. Typically free next-day delivery. I don't have any hard stats, but my estimate is that at least 50% of prescriptions are filled online.

- Deliveries are typically shipped to the house's/apartment's mailbox or when chosen so or if the package doesn't fit, to the closest pickup place, typically inside a grocery store. When that happens you need to show an ID to pick it up.

- Retail drug stores, particularly in small villages have been forced to raise prices dramatically. Essentially an old-people tax. :( It's not unusual for them to have 2x prices in retail compared to online.

- There is some debate about shipping hard drugs directly to mailboxes. Some want to require those things going to a pickup-place with ID verification. That makes a lot of sense, I think.



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