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Abstract The Affordable Care Act contained a range of provisions that altered prescription drug access and affordability for patients, payers, and providers. Yet the act stopped short of instituting systemic changes in the pricing of drugs, in part to address concerns that more fundamental changes might disrupt the development of new medicines. Looking back a decade after the Affordable Care…
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The Partnership for Safe Medicines and the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators have released an update to 2019’s Illegal Pill Presses: An Overlooked Threat to American Patients.
Since the initial report, fentanyl deaths are higher than ever and these pills – created by clandestine pill presses around the globe – continue to be sold on the streets and on the dark web.
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This week’s roundup includes: Fake remdesivir plagues India and 18 more counterfeit medicine and COVID-fraud stories you may have missed.
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Shabbir Safdar, Executive Director of the Partnership for Safe Medicines, released the following statement today in response to Congressional actions to permanently scheduling illicitly manufactured and deadly fentanyl…
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Pill press seizures in the United States States in pink indicate that law enforcement has found a least one pill press making illicit pills. Click the red triangles for specific seizure incidents, January 2023 to the present. On this page Report: Illegal pill presses (2021 update) Federal resources PSM materials, including website posts Media coverage of pill presses Illicit Pill…
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This week’s roundup includes: a conviction in Colorado, fake COVID-19 vaccines, Operation Stolen Promise statistics and 17 more counterfeit medicine stories.
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Delaware has seen a sharp increase in fake pills Download our August 2021 PDF Download our information sheet about counterfeit drug incidents in Delaware and consult the updates below. State incident summaries February – December 2022 Read more news about counterfeit medicine in Delaware. Additional PSM Coverage Get PSM’s Weekly Newsletter Sign up here Click the badge to report suspected…
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Wyoming’s Counterfeit Drug Problem is Growing Download our June 2021 PDF Download our information sheet about counterfeit drug incidents in Wyoming and consult the updates below. State incident summaries July 2022 – January 2023 Read more news about counterfeit medicine in Wyoming. Additional PSM Coverage Get PSM’s Weekly Newsletter Sign up here Click the badge to report suspected counterfeit activity:
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The fake medicine trend is growing in South Dakota Download our August 2021 PDF Download our information sheet about counterfeit drug activity in South Dakota and consult the updates below. State incident summaries April 2022 – January 2023 Read more news about counterfeit medicine in South Dakota. Additional PSM Coverage Get PSM’s Weekly Newsletter Sign up here Click the badge…
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Fake drugs have gained ground in Idaho Download our June 2021 PDF Download our information sheet about counterfeit drug incidents in Idaho and consult the updates below. State incident summaries March – December 2022 Read more news about counterfeit medicine in Idaho. Additional PSM Coverage Get PSM’s Weekly Newsletter Sign up here Click the badge to report suspected counterfeit activity:
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