It is also expanding into health care advertising linked to drug purchases.

Convictions are not required, only police testimony of repeated drug purchases.

They would pay for their first $275 in drug purchases, too.

In most health insurance plans, doctor's visits and drug purchases do not come free.

Members of some groups even go undercover to make drug purchases and citizen's arrests.

Medicaid accounts for about 13 percent of drug purchases in the domestic pharmaceutical market.

The Medicare program for the elderly does not cover retail drug purchases.

Among the tactics to be used are undercover drug purchases and expanded police intelligence work, he said.

And they charge less per dose in countries where governments negotiate drug purchases.

It also made undercover drug purchases and finally brought the gang down, she said.