Abstract The Affordable Care Act contained a range of provisions that altered prescription drug access and affordability for patients, payers, and providers. Yet the act stopped short of instituting systemic changes in the pricing of drugs, in part to address[…]
Read more...The Partnership for Safe Medicines and the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators have released a update to 2019's Illegal Pill Presses: An Overlooked Threat to American Patients. Since the initial report, fentanyl deaths are higher than ever and these[…]
Read more...This week's roundup includes: Fake remdesivir plagues India and 18 more counterfeit medicine and COVID-fraud stories you may have missed.
Read more...Shabbir Safdar, Executive Director of the Partnership for Safe Medicines, released the following statement today in response to Congressional actions to permanently scheduling illicitly manufactured and deadly fentanyl...
Read more...This week's roundup includes:a conviction in Colorado, fake COVID-19 vaccines, Operation Stolen Promise statistics and 17 more counterfeit medicine stories.
Read more...Texas authorities at both the regional and Federal level have combatting a rash of injuries and deaths caused by counterfeit cosmetic injections. From fake Botox and other counterfeit versions of filler treatments to industrial silicone injections sealed with superglue, these[…]
Read more...On February 3, 2016, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Catherine Nix had been sentenced to a year and three months in prison for her role in importing counterfeit medication into the U.S. Her sentence was the final chapter[…]
Read more...The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that a Karachi native has been extradited from Germany to face counterfeit drug charges in the United States. According to the DOJ, Junaid Qadir appeared in a Federal courtroom in Denver[…]
Read more...Robert Lohr sold the fakes via a fake pharmacy known as either “American Drug Club of Bradenton” or “Canadian American Drug Club.” Lohr made over $1 million selling his counterfeit medication to unsuspecting patients.
Read more...LA County officials warn public about the toxic threat that fake medications pose, and share a tragic story about a woman whose efforts to save money by using non-FDA approved treatments led to her death. An NBC News story shares...
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