• Importing medicine from Canada's or other countries' drug supplies isn't safe or cost-effective.

  • More than a decade into the counterfeit pill crisis, fake prescription pills made with deadly ingredients are still killing Americans. 

  • Overwhelming demand for transformative GLP-1s has led to widespread illicit compounding and a boom in counterfeiting.

  • Several states are trying to to set price caps to reduce the cost of expensive medicine, but this could bankrupt pharmacies and threaten patient access.

March 30, 2026: A second pharmacy benefit manager settles suit with the FTC over insulin price inflation.

March 31, 2026

CVS Health’s Caremark deal mirrors the deal the FTC struck with Express Scripts last month, a person familiar with the case told Reuters.

March 24, 2026: Physician sentenced for administering expired injectables in long-running fraud scheme

March 24, 2026

A federal judge in Alaska sentenced rheumatologist Dr. Claribel Tan to six-and-a-half years in prison for administering substandard drugs to patients while fraudulently billing insurers

Using pharmacy-to-pharmacy marketplaces? Read this Suspicious Sales Surveillance Report

March 24, 2026

Online pharmacy-to-pharmacy marketplaces help with inventory management, but they also require vigilance because they carry a higher risk of being exploited by criminals selling black market medicines.

Counterfeit drug crimes typically earn light sentences. How did Safe Chain’s co-owners, the Boyd brothers, end up with 18 and 20 years?

March 23, 2026

Wire fraud charges drove much higher penalties than the shipping of unsafe medicine into the supply chain, and the Boyds’ sentences were based on the government proving high-dollar, deliberate fraud.

March 17, 2026: Safe Chain Solutions executives jailed for selling secondhand HIV meds

March 17, 2026

A federal judge sentenced brothers Charles and Patrick Boyd to a combined 38 years in prison for running a nationwide scheme that sold counterfeit and diverted HIV medications to U.S. pharmacies.

March Drug Importation Madness

March 17, 2026

For a pretty dead policy idea, bulk drug importation has had a lot of news lately. Get the update!

Safe Chain owners Charles and Patrick Boyd sentenced for nationwide black market HIV drug scheme

March 13, 2026

federal judge in Florida sentenced Charles and Patrick Boyd to a cumulative 38 years in prison. The brothers owned Safe Chain Solutions, a Cambridge, Maryland-based drug distributor at the center of a diversion ring that endangered the health of American patients by selling U.S. pharmacies over 85,00 counterfeit bottles of secondhand HIV medicine worth more than $250 million.

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