Consumers
Company and CEO Charged With Illegally Adding Scheduled Drugs To Supplements
A recently unsealed indictment brings 18 charges, including introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce & manufacturing and distributing controlled substances, against Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals and its CEO Jared Wheat…
[...]Hazmat Cleaning Company Describes Conditions Inside A House Used As A Fentanyl Pill Mill
An Edmonton home that was used as a pill mill for the largest fake fentanyl pill seizure in Canadian history was deemed uninhabitable until after a hazardous remediation company came in to clean the place up. This is what it was like inside…
[...]Safe Savings Tip: Generic Norvasc Is Over 75% Cheaper In The U.S. Than In Canada
People think all prescription drugs cost less in Canada, but is that true? We did a price comparison for amlodipine, generic Norvasc, the sixth most frequently prescribed prescription drug in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2016. When we called a brick-and-mortar pharmacy in Canada, we were quoted the price of $24.62 for a 30-day supply, but we found those same pills at pharmacies in the U.S. for only $5.50…
[...]AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group Admits To Distributing Millions of Misbranded Oncology Drug Products
AmerisourceBergen Speciality Group is part of one of the largest wholesale drug companies in the U.S. and recently admitted in federal court to having distributed millions of misbranded oncology drug products throughout the U.S. over the course of 13 years…
[...]Maryland Woman Sentenced For Illegally Injecting Clients With Industrial Grade Silicone
Kendra Westmoreland of Maryland received a two-year prison sentence after admitting that she lied to her clients for 15 years. She was not injecting them with medical grade silicone, which it is illegal because of potential health complications. It was actually industrial grade silicone…
[...]Doctor Sentenced To 40 Months For Distributing Unapproved Medicine
Dr. George Patino convicted and sentenced for conspiracy, distributing Human Growth Hormone (HGH) for unauthorized medical purposes, and smuggling. He brought non-FDA approved HGH over from Mexico to treat patients with it for unapproved medical purposes…
[...]Florida Trio Indicted For Conspiracy To Make and Sell Fake Prescription Drugs
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted three Florida residents for conspiracy to import, manufacture, and distribute fake prescription drugs and anabolic steroids after U.S Postal Inspectors noticed a large quantity of raw materials needed to make fake pills being shipped to them…
[...]Man Pleaded Guilty To Selling Unapproved Pet Meds For Years
The owner of a pet medication company and the company itself entered guilty pleas in federal court, admitting to have smuggled and sold misbranded and unapproved pet meds to U.S. pet owner for 15 years…
[...]Woman Admits To Prescribing Counterfeit and Smuggled Drugs
Carolina Aguilar Rodriguez was neither a doctor nor a pharmacist, but that didn’t stop her from prescribing counterfeit and smuggled prescription drugs to her clients at her Houston store. She recently pleaded guilty in federal court…
[...]Pair Who Illegally Injected Clients With Silicone For Years Sentenced
Two Florida women received their federal prison sentences following years of illegally injecting clients with liquid silicone and lying to them, insisting that the substance was FDA-approved and safe when in reality, it can cause necrosis, disfigurement, pain or death…
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