SAN ANTONIO -- You see the advertisements on the Internet -- without doctors or prescriptions, you can get prescription medications delivered to your door.

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But pills offered from Web sites may get into the wrong hands.

With permission from his mother, a 14-year-old boy volunteered to place an order for Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug that can be addictive.

With a few clicks of the mouse and a few lies on a brief medical questionnaire, the teenager used a credit card to successfully purchase $170 worth of Xanax from an offshore pharmacy in Central America.

In less than a month, the prescription drugs arrived, addressed to the boy.

"It just makes me very angry that these people can actually get away with this," said Susan Surman, the boy's mother.

"That's just pretty stupid that you can get the drugs that easy off the Internet," the boy said.

Jerry Ellis with the Drug Enforcement Agency in Houston said it's illegal for teenagers to purchase prescription drugs from the Internet. He said the agency is cracking down on drugs being sold from Web sites in the United States. But Ellis said finding the owners of foreign Web sites poses a challenge.

"We could double our personnel and still not have enough to make all the cases we need to," Ellis said.

The fact that it's easy to purchase online drugs worries some doctors.

"Many prescription drugs have very significant side effects," said Dr. Gordon King, of University Hospital in San Antonio.