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In a message dated 4/26/2002 7:29:12 PM, [log in to unmask] writes: << If people want to provide donated medication to others, they need to find a way to do it off the list. >> I agree with Katie. Doing this via the list is illegal and, IMHO, risky. One might be unwittingly helping someone make a poor self-treatment choice that results in harm. And, much as we feel we know each other, there's always a chance that somebody is lurking whose motivation has less to do with need and more to do with recreation or marketing. (Some people will try anything to get high. After all, as fans of Six Feet Under know, there are people stupid enough to smoke--and pay for--joints laced with embalming fluid.) Don's tactic of offering medications to others in the setting of a support group is one example of how this might be dealt with more safely. Even safer, I think, is giving it to a physician who can then route it to a patient, as someone else (sorry, I forget who) noted. But trading drugs in cyberspace? Not a good idea. Regards, Kathleen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn