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In this editorial by Terry Wilcox published in Inside Sources on April 18, 2019, Terry Wilcox, executive director of a patient advocacy organization advices federal and state representatives that allowing drug importation is not the right policy solution for America’s high prescription drug prices…
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In this editorial, which was published in Colorado Politics on April 17, 2019, Don Bell, a 30-year veteran of Canadian law enforcement and border protection, warns that Canadian drug importation will open the U.S. to counterfeit medicine and exacerbate drug shortages in Canada.
Read MoreWhat’s happening? The Florida legislature is currently considering two bills, HB 19 and SB 1528, that would open up the drug supply to drugs not inspected by the FDA and not protected by the Track and Trace system. As fake medicines made with fentanyl are flooding into America and in Florida, we cannot afford to weaken safety of the drug…
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The Terrible Human Cost of Counterfeit Medicine In this four minute documentary, Carrie Luther, who lost her son to counterfeit medicine, and former FDA Office of Criminal Investigations director George Karavetsos talk about the human costs that people so often gloss over when discussing drug importation. Drug Importation Endangers U.S. Patients The United States already has a counterfeit medicine problem.…
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Counterfeit medicines kill up to 300,000 children each year In a shocking new report published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, researchers have documented the true toll of counterfeit medicines around the world due to medicine being subtherapeutic or outright ineffective. Subtherapeutic medicine allows patients to die without sufficient treatment, but it also creates treatment resistant…
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The editorial board of the The Wall Street Journal published this editorial on April 15, 2019. In it, they write:
“The argument that drug importation threatens the integrity of the drug supply is often dismissed because pharmaceutical lobbyists make it. But keeping the drug supply free from contaminated or counterfeit products is not easy, and the World Health Organization has warned that 1 in 10 medical products in the developing world are phony. It isn’t clear who is liable if counterfeits are found in Florida, but you can bet it won’t be the politicians.”
Read MoreSPEAK UP: Tell the Maine legislature that we need real progress on healthcare costs, not fantasy policy like Canadian importation You can use our helpful letter writing tool to write an email to your legislators which will be sent directly to them.
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April 12, 2019 (Tallahassee, FL) — Importation undermines our core efforts to keep our medicine supply safe. State and federal authorities regulate every entity in the U.S. supply chain from the point of manufacture until a medicine is dispensed, and that makes counterfeits in the legitimate supply chain rare. In 2013, Congress passed the Drug Supply Chain Security Act to…
Read MoreWhat’s happening? The Florida legislature is currently considering two bills, HB 19 and SB 1528, that would open up the drug supply to drugs not inspected by the FDA and not protected by the Track and Trace system. As fake medicines made with fentanyl are flooding into America and in Florida, we cannot afford to weaken safety of the drug…
Read MoreWhat’s happening? The Colorado legislature is working through proposals to lower healthcare costs which is important, as healthcare costs are a challenge to many Colorado residents of all kinds. Of the thirteen proposals being discussed, one of them sacrifices safety to achieve cost savings: foreign drug importation. This proposal opens up Colorado to the risk of counterfeits which are a…
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