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PSM alerts public to criminal medicine activity on gay dating apps
PSM and ADAP Advocacy launched a campaign today about the dangers of medicine diversion criminals operating on gay dating apps such as Grindr. Learn more and report the crime on our campaign page.
[...]June 3, 2024: CAST Act introduced in the Senate
The CAST Act introduced in the Senate. More lawsuits against copycat Wegovy sellers. Pill presses seized in multiple countries. Read about these and other stories in our weekly counterfeit medicine news roundup.
[...]PSM testimony: Colorado Prescription Drug Affordability Board Meeting, June 7, 2024
A Colorado board is considering setting a price limit on the medicine Stelara. This will have unintended consequences, undermining the safety of the supply chain for this medicine and limiting patient access. Learn more by reading our testimony.
[...]Colorado’s Canadian Rx import plan fuels counterfeit Ozempic dangers
Executive Director Shabbir Safdar’s editorial ran on May 15, 2024 in Colorado Politics
[...]How Upper Payment Limits on medicine increase the risk of diverted and counterfeit medicine in the drug supply
States like Colorado are experimenting with Prescription Drug Affordability Boards to address the price of medicine, but solutions like Upper Payment Limits will yield multiple unintended consequences that will do more harm than good to patients.
[...]May 28, 2024: Feds arrest alleged dark web market owner at JFK Airport
The operator of Incognito is charged with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, narcotics conspiracy, money laundering and conspiracy to sell adulterated and misbranded medication.
[...]PSM launches social media public awareness campaign about dangers of fake Botox
PSM is launching a public awareness campaign about the dangers of fake Botox. The campaign includes a dozen slides with quotes from a fake Botox victim about her physical effects. You can view the campaign elements in the gallery below or on PSM’s instagram channel as it rolls out over the next few weeks.
[...]May 20, 2024: “I woke up and my arms had fully stopped working,” fake Botox victim says
A counterfeit Botox victim described her illness to a reporter at Glamour. Additional news, including medicine sales on TikTok; a California man who allegedly sold imported etizolam; counterfeit, contaminated injections in India; and pill press seizures in three states.
[...]A peek inside a prescription drug diversion ring
The indictment and pre-sentencing memo from the Southern District of New York’s prosecution of Boris Aminov offer a “how-did-they-do-it” guide to prescription drug health care fraud, capturing text messages, crime photos, and a step-by-step guide to the deceit.
[...]May 13, 2024: Fentanyl pill seizures tripled from 2021 to 2023, says the DEA
DEA seizures of fentanyl pills tripled between 2021 and 2023. The CDC narrowed the scope of the counterfeit Botox outbreak to nine states. Additional news about counterfeit medicine in seven states.
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