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For years, the nation's medicine has moved through a thriving gray market of middlemen, who buy and sell medicine to one another. These middlemen often resort to fraud in order to obtain medicine for resale more cheaply through drug diversion. Soaring prices, weak laws and numerous opportunities for arbitrage have attracted narcotics traffickers and organized crime into this activity. With…
Read MoreThe U.S. Customs Service and its successor agency U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is now located within the Department of Homeland Security, have conducted investigations into the illegal importation of unapproved and counterfeit pharmaceuticals for decades. Other federal and state agencies have conducted similar investigations. Advances in technology have created an increasingly favorable climate for such crime. In…
Read MoreAs American consumers seek their medicines at the best price, many are buying online, from foreign-based websites. Many of these websites purport to be based in Canada and some legitimate Canadian websites source their drugs from Great Britain or Ireland-believing that these drugs come from a country with a secure supply chain. This is, at best, misleading and this article…
Read MoreProducing counterfeit drugs is a lucrative, low risk, high return business. Organized criminal elements and terrorist organizations are exploiting this reality across borders to fund their activities. An interdisciplinary, multi-focal strategy to raise awareness of the issue, establish stakeholder reporting systems, reform penalties to fit the crime, and invest in technology must be engaged to protect the public health and…
Read MoreState Leadership is Critical in Protecting U.S. Drug Supply SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ — The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) warned state legislators from across the country about the growing risk of counterfeit drugs on our nation's drug supply at a forum today. The forum was part of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)'s fall meeting,…
Read MoreU.S. District Court Judge Joanna Seybert on Monday in a New York federal court granted an injunction that further delays part of a counterfeit drug law that would have taken effect last Friday, "strik[ing] a blow against FDA efforts to curb counterfeit drugs," the Wall Street Journal reports. The Prescription Drug Marketing Act requires only "secondary wholesalers," which buy drugs…
Read MoreAny Malaysian with an e-mail account would have had the displeasure of receiving e-mail with such headings or similar ones in their inbox. Most of us would normally mark it as spam and banish it to the trash folder, never to be seen again. But not all of us do. An increasing number of Malaysians, weary of visits to the…
Read MoreNo one will ever know how many Chinese men — and women — were sexually satisfied after taking the American Number One, Male Exclusive, Great Big Brother pills sold by Xi Yongli. When the product was raised in court recently, it was not its potency that was on trial. Rather, it was the legality of using a drug better known…
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