March 6, 2023: Oregon man sentenced for three years of selling steroids and fake pills on Facebook

two baggies of white pills on a blue surface

PSM’s executive director spoke at Senator Rick Scott’s roundtable. The US FDA acted to restrict the illicit shipment of xylazine. Investigators have traced the deaths of 84 children in Gambia and Uzbekistan to counterfeit cough syrup. 57 people in three states were charged with selling fentanyl pills and other drugs and a doctor was sentenced for faking a stem cell treatment. Additional news about fake pills in 30 states.

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February 28, 2023: Senator Rick Scott speaks at PSM congressional briefing

A bald, besuited man with a striped tie at a podium with a sign that reads The Partnership for Safe Medicines, The 118th Congress Counterfeit Drug Policy Briefing. One of his hands is outstretched.

PSM hosted a congressional briefing keynoted by Senator Rick Scott. The U.S. imposed sanctions against alleged suppliers of precursor chemicals to the Sinaloa Cartel. Deaths, prosecutions and seizures related to fake painkillers, Xanax and Adderall in 21 states. Counterfeit medicine stories in India and Algeria.

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District of Columbia

Washington D.C., too, has counterfeit medicine Consult our incident summaries and the RSS feed to learn about counterfeit drug incidents in the Washington D.C. area. Incident Summaries July 2022 – February 2023 Counterfeit Drug News in the District of ColumbiaEastern District of Virginia | Career offender sentenced to 14 years in prison for fentanyl trafficking…

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