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Fimea, Finland’s pharmaceutical watchdog group, ordered hospitals to stop administering a cancer medication over concerns that the medication is counterfeit or diverted…
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A group of health professionals in Canada has come up with a unique way to educate the public about the dangers of fentanyl. They created Doctors Against Tragedies, a board game inspired by Cards Against Humanity…
Read MoreShort Bio Shabbir Imber Safdar is the executive director of the Partnership for Safe Medicines and hosts the True Crime and Medicine Safety podcast. Full bio Shabbir Imber Safdar has served as the Executive Director of the Partnership for Safe Medicines since 2017. Before that he was the Director of Outreach and has served as a consultant to PSM for…
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Starting in 2011, Google could only promote sponsored advertisements for NABP-registered pharmacies, but how effective was this change in steering people away from rogue internet pharmacies. A new study looks into how successful they were…
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Tramadol is given as a pain medication in India, but it has a high potential for abuse, and in some countries, tramadol deaths outnumber deaths from heroin. It is also completely unregulated in India, and is not on the World Health Organization (WHO) list of scheduled drugs or controlled substance list, which would force countries to regulate it.
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The Partnership for Safe Medicines today issued the following statement regarding a new Senate report that highlights the direct harm posed by illegally-imported fentanyl from China…
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U.S. Department of Justice announced an indictment against Dr. Johnny C. Benjamin, Jr. of Vero Beach, Florida. He is alleged to have manufactured and sold counterfeit pills made with fentanyl that he purchased online. Authorities know of at least one death attributed to the pills he made…
Read MoreYour Senators Voted To Help Stop Illegal Fentanyl From Entering The U.S. Please Thank them! Late last year the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to allocate $9 million to buy border patrol agents new equipment for detecting illegally imported fentanyl. If you’re not familiar with fentanyl, it’s a medically powerful substance that is imported from China and then pressed into counterfeit…
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The INTERDICT Act was recently signed into law, giving the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol $9 million to use for investing in chemical screening technology and additional personnel in their fight to keep fentanyl and illicit opioids out of the country…
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Captain Henry King of the Rocky Mount Police Police Department in North Carolina received a Certificate of Exemplary Service for his work to bring down a drug counterfeiter…
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