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FDA Alert: Dietary Supplement Recalled for Containing Prescription Drug Ingredients

March 25, 2021
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Consumers should contact their physician or healthcare provider if they have experienced any problems that may be related to using these drug products.

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Hawaii

March 24, 2021
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Hawaii is not immune to the threat of fake medicine Download our February 2021 PDF Download our information sheet about counterfeit drug incidents in Hawaii and consult the updates below.  State incident summaries August – December 2022 Read more news about counterfeit medicine in Hawaii Additional PSM Coverage Get PSM’s Weekly Newsletter Sign up here Click the badge to report…

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Counterfeit Medicine News for the week of March 15, 2021

March 23, 2021
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This week: fake COVID-19 vaccines seized in Mexico, updates on the impact of fentanyl pills in 2020, warnings about counterfeit pills made with methamphetamine and more.

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Canadian Drug Importation Stalls

March 23, 2021
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The White House approved regulations for state drug importation in late state, green-lighting several states’ efforts to implement importation.

None of them is up and running yet. Check out this week’s video and post for an update.

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Our Policy Focus: Protect Patients

March 16, 2021

Our policy focus: protect patients At the Partnership for Safe Medicines we advocate for policies that reduce patients’ exposure to counterfeit medication. We believe that safety is paramount, and that no patient should ever have to wonder if the medicine they are dispensed is real. Cheaper medicine that comes with a worry about its safety is no medicine at all.…

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Counterfeit Medicine News for the week of March 8, 2021

March 15, 2021
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This week: FDA warns against ivermectin as a COVID treatment, a fourth fraudulent pharmaceutical company website, counterfeit pill prosecutions and seizures in seven states.

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Counterfeit Medicine News for the week of March 1, 2021

March 8, 2021
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This week: The FDA moves on fake FDA registration certificates and warns Mercola to stop selling supplements with fake COVID claims. The U.S. Attorney in Maryland shuts down another fake pharma phishing site. Counterfeit vaccines in South Africa. Counterfeit pill news in 11 states.

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New report from DEA says cartels are driving fake pills, and fake pills are driving drug deaths

March 4, 2021
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The annual DEA National Threat Assessment, which covers 2019 and the first half of 2020, is the best source of unclassified data on drug smuggling, illicit substance trafficking, and counterfeit medications as it affects Americans. Watch our News of the Week video at right, or read the high points on our Twitter thread.  Below you’ll find photos from the report,…

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Medication Testing Makes Drug importation Prohibitively Expensive

March 3, 2021
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Medication Testing Makes Drug importation Prohibitively Expensive Federal legislation requires that any Canadian drug importation program test a “statistically valid sample” of medicines from each imported batch. This means you have to test more than a single dose or package, but to achieve 99.99% confidence and reliability, that you test thousands or sometimes tens of thousands in a batch. PSM…

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Nearly One Million Poison Pills in 30 Days: Counterfeit Pills are Fueling U.S. Drug Deaths

March 2, 2021
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The CDC says drug deaths are up 24% and the U.S. has seized nearly one million fake pills in the last 30 days.

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