Posts Tagged ‘handouts’
How do you test whether a medication is legitimate?
Testing medicine for legitimacy is a complicated process. Across 24 different prescription medicines, the average cost to test a single dose is $2,750. However, ensuring that a batch of 100 pills is safe requires testing at least 22 pills. To learn more about this topic, read PSM’s summary: safedr.ug/Acri-Explained.
[...]Myth: We are getting the same drugs Canadians take
In 2014, during a two-year period when Maine was experimenting with drug importation, the president of Maine’s Pharmacy Association purchased medications from an online pharmacy for testing. The drugs he received were not approved for the Canadian or U.S. markets. Worse, they were poor quality: two of them were the wrong strength, and the other was contaminated.
[...]Do You Know What A Pill Press Is?
Do you know what a pill press is? Drug counterfeiters can acquire a pill press and a counterfeit pill mold to churn out counterfeit medications for less than $500. Unfortunately, “garage manufacturers” are not careful about manufacturing controls, and their products often contain fatal doses of fentanyl or other drugs. Since 2015, bootleg prescription drugs…
[...]Black Market Cancer Drugs In the U.S. 2007–2018
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[...]Fentanyl 101: What you need to know
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[...]Who Opposes Drug Importation? Every Head of the FDA and HHS Since 2000
Ordering prescription drugs from non-FDA approved foreign sources is a dangerous pat, opposed by all of the previous heads of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) since 2000.
[...]Black Market HIV Drugs in the U.S.
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[...]Bipartisan Safety Issues: How Many Different Kinds of Black Market Medicines have been Sold in Your State?
Since 2012, the FDA has issued warnings to more than 3,000 doctors, clinics and hospitals about eight different breaches in the U.S. drug supply chain by rogue distributors such as Richards Pharma, Canada Drugs, Medical Device King, Gallant Pharmaceuticals, and TC Medical. These rogue distributors offered 63 different non-FDA approved medicines. Have you or has someone you know taken medicine that these smugglers have sold?
[...]Do YOU Know How to Decode a Fake Pharmacy Website?
A quick perusal of the Internet will turn up a vast array of websites claiming to offer pharmacy services. Yet only 3% of online pharmacies are legitimate. How do you decode a fake pharmacy website?
[...]Black Market Injectable Cosmetic Treatments, a Nationwide Problem
Between 2005 and 2013, there was one death and 11 other patients who required medical attention for disfigurement or serious illness as the result of receiving fake or misbranded cosmetic injectables while at a doctor’s office, clinic, or salon. Black Market Cosmetic Injectables in the U.S. 2005-2013 attempts to describe the scope of the problem.
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