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. 

Why are price cap proposals on medicines dangerous to pharmacies and patients?

September 30, 2025

Supply chain complexity means that upper payment limits and Medicare maximum fair prices will fall disproportionately on pharmacies, leading to closures that threaten patient access to care.

September 30, 2025: Florida agency requests $4 million more for $132 million empty warehouse

September 30, 2025
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Although the state won FDA approval for its importation program in January 2024, it has yet to implement the program.

September 22, 2025: Chinese executives sentenced for shipping 200 kilos of fentanyl precursors into the U.S.

September 23, 2025

Between November 2022 and June 2023, Amarvel Biotech sold over 200 kilograms of precursor chemicals to U.S. buyers with full knowledge that they would be used to make fentanyl.

Prescription Drug Freight Fraud Report, September 2025

September 16, 2025

Our analysis of data from June and July revealed hundreds of pharmaceutical shipments that entered the U.S. from facilities no one would expect, including unregistered Chinese exporters and alternative medicine clinics abroad.

September 15, 2025: Telehealth company must stop implying its compounded GLP-1 is FDA-approved, warns FDA

September 15, 2025
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The warning letter was one of about 100 is a new focus on deceptive direct-to-consumer drug advertisements.

September 8, 2025: FDA launches an import alert listing safe GLP-1 manufacturers

September 8, 2025

The “green list” will help protect patients from unreliable, illegally compounded GLP-1s and simplify screening for border security.

PSM leads letter in support of an FDA mandate to destroy high-risk imports

September 5, 2025

PSM led a coalition of organizations urging leaders of the Senate HELP and House Energy and Commerce committees to help strengthen the FDA’s ability to protect Americans from unsafe and counterfeit medicines and medical products.

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90 countries. 769 arrests. 123 criminal networks. Over 50 million doses of fake medicine.

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Fake GLP-1 medications are putting lives at risk.

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