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Table of Contents


Publisher's Letter


Mailbox

Sex Ed’s Rubber Rubout

PREPing For Sex

On Me, Not Inn Me

Out Of Data

MTV Goes CDC

I Go Shout Plenty

Class Pictures

Obituary

Time Out

Bill Me Later

Neg/Pos

Natal Attraction

Milestones

Wall Of Controversy

Shades Of Gray

Give Me Fever

Bad Meds

Hot And Bothered

Pass The Scalpel—And The Bucks

Northern Exposure

Cell Low, Cell High

Pillow Talk

Neg (-) But (+) For Lipo

A New Gay Plague?

Hard Workin’ Beans

Viread, Once A Wonder Drug

It's His Party

Out Of Sight

The Truth About Cats And Dogs (& A Horse And A Bird)

Getting’ Hot In Here

The Big Bang Theory

Walk This Way


Most Talked About

Does Undetectable Equal Uninfectious? (21)

Just Found Out? A POZ.com Guide for HIV Rookies (11)

The Blood of Christ (a powerful one-man AIDS protest) (Blog) (9)

The State of AIDS in Puerto Rico (9)

Rethinking Criminalization of HIV (8)

Life Expectancy With HIV Increases Dramatically (6)

Most Popular Lessons

The HIV Life Cycle

Herpes Simplex Virus

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

Shingles

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)



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July / August 2003


Bad Meds

by Mubarak Dahir

Florida’s underground market for Rx drugs could be endangering HIVers, the state health department has warned. Patients fill expensive ’scrips—the pricey human-growth hormone Serostim is a black-market favorite—then sell them on the street. Tom Liberti, chief of Florida’s Bureau of HIV/AIDS, said pills make their way back to wholesalers and onto pharmacy shelves, now possibly “bogus, expired, diluted or inactive.” 
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