21.   Affordable housing is harder than ever to find, he added, and drugs can be bought on many street corners.

22.   Bristol acknowledged last month that it had increased sales over the last two years by giving wholesalers incentives to buy more drugs than they needed to ship to pharmacies.

23.   But despite the risks, many Americans are buying drugs at significantly reduced prices from online overseas pharmacies.

24.   But for the unwary, the Internet can be a dark and treacherous place to buy drugs.

25.   But Botswana is looking into buying antiretroviral drugs.

26.   But help from wealthy countries will still be needed to help poor governments buy these drugs.

27.   But experts say that if the United States wants to buy generic drugs to meet the sudden demand for ciprofloxacin, this presents no legal problem.

28.   But patients buying those drugs take a risk that they will not work.

29.   But the government could devise ways to buy drugs in bulk and win volume discounts, an idea President Clinton included in his proposal last year.

30.   Buying prescription drugs over the Internet can be far more convenient than making a trip to a drugstore and waiting in line while the prescription is filled.