Posts Tagged ‘counterfeit drugs’
Florida Woman Injected Clients With Counterfeit Botox At Illegal Med Spa
After receiving a tip in November 2017, police search the home that Diane D’Anca was operating an illegal med spa out of. Inside, police found a “large amount” of medical supplies and records for 100 clients. In a refrigerator in the garage, they found several vials of Botox she injected into clients that turned out to be counterfeit…
[...]Pair of California men Accused of Running a Huge Fentanyl Pill Ring
Andrew Tablack and Stephan Durham were running a “pill production facility” in California that could produce thousands of counterfeit pills. A break in the case came when New Jersey authorities seized a massive 44 pound shipment of pills in Monmouth County.
[...]WHO just exacerbated the counterfeit drug problem
In late November, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a landmark report on the global counterfeit drug epidemic. Unfortunately, the WHO glossed over a major cause of the crisis — instability in the European Union’s drug supply chain — and actually gave the European Union cover by applauding its deeply flawed approach to combating counterfeit drugs. We need a better strategy to win the war on counterfeit drugs.
[...]Overdoses Linked To Counterfeit Xanax Cause Police To Issue A Public Warning
Yakima, Washington Police Department issues public warning after a bad batch of counterfeit Xanax being sold on the street caused an uptick in overdoses. Police were unsure what was in the pills, but they did know they were not real Xanax and told people to stay away from them…
[...]Canadian Pleaded Guilty To Misbranded Animal Drugs Charges For a Second Time
Alain Lamontagne pleaded guilty in federal court to selling misbranded equine drugs that contained a Schedule III steroid not listed on the label. Lamontagne ran into problems with the law under very similar circumstances in 2011 in his native Canada…
[...]U.S. Postal Inspectors Are On The Front Line In the Fight To Keep Fentanyl Out Of The Country
Many government agencies are working to keep fentanyl from killing Americans. U.S. Postal Inspectors have found themselves on the front line working to keep fentanyl out of the country. The DOJ is working to bring justice to those who break our laws and the State Department is in negotiations to help stem the flow of illicit opioids into the country…
[...]Illinois Resident Imported Foreign API and Pressed 80,000 Pills in Home for Sale Online
IL resident Skyler Dean Prahl pleaded guilty to introducing a misbranded drug into commerce. Prahl used a pharmaceutical powdered purchased from overseas to make Tramadol pills, which he sold online to customers around the U.S…
[...]Couple Sentenced For Smuggling And Injecting Clients With Fake Botox
Couple with no medical training, who repeatedly smuggled counterfeit cosmetic injectables into the U.S. and used them on their clients, received sentences for their crimes. Unfortunately, two of their clients have been left with permanent nerve damage…
[...]Pair From India Sentenced For Selling Fake Prescription Drugs to Americans
Trial initiated by an FDA-OCI investigation into a call center in India selling counterfeit and misbranded drugs to Americans ends with sentencing for the two defendants…
[...]Known Counterfeit Cancer Drug Foreign Distributor Implicated in New Case
U.S. DOJ received guilty pleas from oncologist and wife who ordered misbranded cancer drugs from QSP, a CanadaDrugs.com wholesaler, 65 times over the course of 21 months while never informing their patients…
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