Overwhelming demand for transformative GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic and Mounjaro has led to widespread compounding and a boom in counterfeiting.

Is it safe or cost-effective to import medicine from Canada's or other countries' drug supplies?

 

August 21 is National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day and this year the counterfeit pill crisis is a decade old. 

State Prescription Drug Affordability Boards intend to control medicine costs — but some of their strategies will have unintended consequences.

After two decades of tracking counterfeit drugs, PSM is an expert on medicine safety issues and we often offer journalists our insight and perspective. 

December 1, 2025: More botulism cases underscore the need for regulated, supervised Botox use

December 1, 2025

MMWR field notes about Americans hospitalized after self-injecting imported Botox raise serious concerns about patient safety.

November 24, 2025: Surveys examine online pharmacy use and patients’ perceived safety

November 26, 2025

Surveys document consumer behaviors when purchasing medication from online pharmacies, finding that the public may not be aware of the dangers of IOPs.

Five takeaways from CNBC’s investigation of alternative funding programs

November 21, 2025

What are the most important lessons from CNBC’s documentary about alternative funding programs (AFPs)?

November 17, 2025: CNBC explores “alternative funding programs” forcing U.S. patients to take unregulated medicines

November 18, 2025

CNBC aired a documentary about alternative funding programs that included interviews with PSM’s Shabbir Imber Safdar, HSI and FDA officials, as well as a representative from Gilead Sciences and from the companies supplying these drug.

November 10, 2025: FDA cracks down on sites supplying unapproved “Botox”

November 10, 2025

The FDA warned websites in five countries to stop selling Americans unapproved cosmetic injections.

PSM asks House Energy & Commerce Committee to oppose H.R. 5316, The Drug Shortage Compounding Patient Access Act

November 4, 2025

PSM sent a letter explaining how H.R. 5316 undermines critical patient safety protections.

November 3, 2025: Safe Chain’s Boyd brothers convicted for selling adulterated HIV medicines and falsifying drug pedigrees

November 3, 2025
On or about August 14, 2020, CHARLES BOYD sent PATRICK BOYD a text message stating, "We need to talk tomorrow about HIV" On or about August 14, 2020, CHARLES BOYD sent PATRICK BOYD a text message stating, "Patient opened a bottle and it was different medication." On or about August 14, 2020, CHARLES BOYD sent PATRICK BOYD a textmessage stating, "It was from Gentek and sealed." On or about August 14, 2020, CHARLES BOYD sent PATRICK BOYD a text message stating, "It was replaced with bipolar med."

The Maryland distributors were convicted at trial in Florida. A federal judged sentenced a pill press seller from China.

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A sales rep for illicit pill presses has been sentenced.

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What did Ohio authorities find at this med spa?

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Over 120 kgs of tirzepatide from unregistered overseas labs, and more.

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