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This editorial by Dr. Warren Willey was published in Idaho State Journal on July 7, 2018. Dr. Willey is an osteopathic physician who lives and works in Pocatello, Idaho. Dr. Willey says counterfeit drugs are becoming more commonplace and that people need to only purchase their medications from within the U.S.’s secure drug supply chain…
Read MoreA doctor in Oregon, Brenda Roberts, pleaded guilty in federal court to purchasing non FDA-approved anti-wrinkle cosmetic injectables and using them on her clients. An affidavit in the case also states that she operated a rogue online pharmacy that distributed controlled substances to customers throughout the United States…
Read MoreThe U.S. DEA held a first-of-its-kind training session in Tampa, Florida to teach local law enforcement officers the proper techniques and steps to safely process a crime scene when fentanyl is present. An officer said that additional training sessions will be held in the future…
Read MoreThe Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies issued a report detailing the ease at which opioids are available for sale online. The research performed by LegitScript shows how shockingly simple it is to buy opioids and substances like fentanyl on the Internet…
Read MoreThe evening of November 29, 2016, Atlanta-area realtor Jennifer Bryant Hodge came home to find her 23-year-old son Robbie collapsed in the bathroom. EMTs rushed Robbie to the hospital, where he was declared brain dead. Hodge would learn that her son had taken a counterfeit Xanax that contained a fatal dose of benzodiazepines.
Read MoreOrdering 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.
Read MoreIn Washington state, law enforcement agencies are finding counterfeit pills made with fentanyl all around the state. In Tri-Cities, the DEA raided several properties after concerns about the increase of fake fentanyl pills being sold on the street. Over in Seattle, it is a battle just to figure out what all these counterfeit pills are made with. Increasingly, it is heroin and fentanyl…
Read MoreRene Soriano of Brownsville, Texas entered a plea of not guilty in federal court to charges that he imported and sold counterfeit drugs online via websites like Facebook and Craigslist since 2013…
Read MoreA federal indictment unsealed against a Maryland man who authorities allege manufactured and sold counterfeit Xanax pills online dating back until at least November 2013. On top of prison time, the U.S. DOJ asked Ryan Farace to be required to forfeit multiple properties and tens of millions of dollars…
Read MorePolice arrested David Worth Steele and Lisa Johnson Wolford in Mt. Airy, North Carolina after after a police search of their home turned up an array of drugs, including 900 suspected counterfeit Roxicodone pills…
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