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Georgia authorities have discovered counterfeit pain pills made with fentanyl analogues for a second time this summer.
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Georgia resident Betty Jean Collins became an unwitting victim of the state’s June counterfeit Percocet incident when she borrowed one of her husband’s pain pills and ended up in the hospital with a fentanyl overdose.
Read MoreDrug importation endangers U.S. patients The idea that we can reduce healthcare costs by simply bulk importing medicine from countries where it costs less is a popular but deeply flawed policy proposal. Countries like Canada have drug shortage problems and have objected to the proposal, and others are certain to follow. The pandemic has shown us just how low criminals…
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A Florida resident received a sentence of four years in federal prison for operating multiple internet pharmacies that sold drugs sourced from Romania and India without requiring a prescription…
Read MoreQuesada was originally indicted in October 2015. He allegedly used his websites to sell medication to unsuspecting U.S. patients that were unaware they were buying misbranded and counterfeit prescription drugs manufactured in India.
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Mexican authorities announced their largest fentanyl seizure to date, which included 30,000 counterfeit pills made with fentanyl. The final destination of all of the fentanyl seized was believed to be U.S. streets…
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Marv Shepherd, President of Board of Directors for the Partnership for Safe Medicines, reexamined the possible effects on Canada’s drug supply should the U.S. legalize drug importation…
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Police in Edmonton, Alberta announced the seizure of 130,000 counterfeit pills containing fentanyl from multiple residences in the area, including one home converted into a fentanyl pill processing lab…
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On May 22, 2016, law enforcement officers were dispatched to a residence in Madison, Wisconsin, in response to a report of a 37-year-old man who had stopped breathing. The victim was dead by the time officers arrived at his residence. An autopsy later confirmed that the victim’s death was caused by acute intoxication due to the combined effects of a substance called U-47700 and Benzodiazepine Analogue (Etizolam).
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A young New York mother is dead and her family is demanding answers after she received injections to enhance her buttocks, CBS News reports. Latesha Bynum, 32, went to a “doctor” practicing out of an apartment in the Gramercy Park neighborhood in New York. Within hours of having the procedure, Ms. Bynum had to be hospitalized. Her brother Tymel told…
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