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State Resources: Counterfeit Incident Summaries The Partnership for Safe Medicines has been developing short fact sheets that summarize recent counterfeit medicine incidents by state. Click on your state to download a copy and review PSM’s coverage of counterfeit drug news in your state. If your state is not here, check back with us soon; we are still working on them.…
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A new study was just released that documented that permanent damage done to a 31-year-old man after he ingested a counterfeit medicine he purchased online. Even after more than a year since this happened to him, the structural changes to the man’s eyes mean that he sees everything with a red tint…
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The Deadly Counterfeit Drug Trade Thrives in New Hampshire Download our April 2021 PDF Download our information sheet about counterfeit drug incidents in New Hampshire and consult the updates below. State incident summaries March 2021 – November 2022 Read more news about counterfeit medicine in New Hampshire. Additional PSM Coverage Get PSM’s Weekly Newsletter Sign up here Click the badge…
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On September 18, 2017, ten-month-old Leo Holz put something he picked up off of his parents’ bed into his mouth. That something turned out to be a fake oxycodone pill made with fentanyl. He is perhaps the youngest known victim of the counterfeit fentanyl pill crisis…
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced a guilty plea from Ryan Farace of Maryland. In less than four years, he manufactured and sold over 920,000 counterfeit Xanax pills on various online marketplaces…
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In this October 10, 2018 editorial for The Hill, publishing executive warns that America has nothing to gain and everything to lose if we forsake our secure drug supply chain for allowing the importation of dangerous drugs…
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As the use of dermal fillers increases, so does the amount of people in the United States that are opting for cheap online deals. Sadly, 25% of the time, those deals leaving people dealing with complications such as a biofilm infection that can take months to completely go away…
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A federal judge sentenced Fany Madrigal-Lopez to 12 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit oxycodone pills made with fentanyl. Even after she learned of one customer’s death in November 2016, she continued to sell those pills until law enforcement finally caught up with her in August 2017…
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The Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control held a hearing on October 2, 2018 to discuss the flow of illicitly produced fentanyl out of China and into the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Discussions with panelists involved what is currently being done by major departments within our government to keep fentanyl out and what more could we be doing to help end this epidemic…
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The Deadly Counterfeit Drug Trade Thrives in North Carolina Download our March 2020 PDF Download our information sheet about counterfeit drug incidents in in North Carolina and consult the updates below. State incident summaries July 2022 – February 2023 Read more news about counterfeit medicine in North Carolina. Additional PSM Coverage Get PSM’s Weekly Newsletter Sign up here Click the…
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