| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Illegal
'Dark Web' Offers Easy Access to Illicit Drugs
SAN DIEGO — Chances are good that some of your patients are using the 'Dark Web' to buy opioids, synthetic heroin, or other drugs.
The Dark Web is an underground world of illicit online drug marketing run on a business model akin to Web giants Amazon or eBay.
But not many psychiatrists know about this hidden commerce, and they ought to, Dwight Zach Smith, MD, executive director, New England Psychiatric Consults, Plymouth, Massachusetts, told Medscape Medical News. (Medscape Coverage from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) 2017 Annual Meeting, 24.05.2017)