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Officials in Lake County, Ohio warned the public about counterfeit oxycodone pills being sold on the streets of northeastern part of the state have tested positive for both fentanyl and carfentanil. They said that any pill bought off the street could be a deadly fake and to only trust pills purchased at U.S. licensed pharmacies…
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A trio of brothers in Indio, California have been charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl pills 20,000 fentanyl pills, the Department of Justice (DOJ) reports in a press release September 14.
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Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer received an injunction from the court against a couple who operated two stores that sold counterfeit and misbranded drugs. The injunction prohibits Iris Anabelle Gonzalez and Hugo Gonzalez Nava from engaging in the sale of pharmaceuticals. Police seized nearly 3,000 misbranded, illegal, and counterfeit pharmaceuticals products when two stores were searched in May…
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In this September 17, 2018, editorial for The Detroit News, the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest’s President and co-founder Peter Pitts warned that legalizing prescription drug importation will not generate massive savings for U.S. citizens while also potentially exposing millions of Americans to dangerous counterfeit drugs…
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Two separate law enforcement investigations in Arizona have recently taken thousands of suspected counterfeit pills made with fentanyl off the street. One bust was made in a parking lot in Buckeye with additional pills seized later following the search of a house. The second bust took place in a mall parking lot in the middle of the day…
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Choosing generic drugs is the easiest and fastest way for Americans to lower their prescription drug costs without having to risk purchasing your medication from a shady online pharmacy. We did a price comparison to see where azithromycin, the generic version of Zithromax, is more affordable – in the U.S. or in Canada. At a brick-and-mortar pharmacy in Canada, a six-dose supply would cost $17.08, but we found the same pills at pharmacies in the U.S. for $6.88…
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The Spalding County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man and a woman in connection with the fentanyl pill deaths of two different men. Amanda Chambers faces involuntary manslaughter and fentanyl drug charges in the case, and Kevin Kennedy is facing a reckless conduct charge in the deaths of Dennis Wade and Jeffrey Scott Callahan.
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A federal grand jury handed down an indictment against the man who was a source of counterfeit 30-milligram Roxicodone pills being sold in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Edward Culton supplied pills to a deal who would find buyers by advertising them on Instagram. One man died and a woman was poisoned after they took pills sold to them by that dealer…
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In a brutal month spanning March 23 to April 23, 2016, fourteen people in the Sacramento area died of suspected drug overdoses, and 38 others were poisoned. At the beginning authorities had no idea why there was a sudden spike in overdose deaths and suspected “contaminated drugs.” They would not know until the month was out and the recovered pills had been analyzed that these deaths were caused by counterfeit pills made with deadly fentanyl. One of those who was lost was a 28-year-old father of three, Jerome Butler.
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Second man indicted in the counterfeit fentanyl pill death of Jonathan Ellington in Colorado. Prosecutors believe that Bruce Holder was not just involved, but is the man who is responsible for smuggling the counterfeit oxycodone pills into the U.S. from Mexico. Ellington’s death may not be the only one caused by these fake fentanyl pills…
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