Are Counterfeit Drugs Finding Their Way to Your Home?
NEW YORK, NY — (MARKET WIRE) — February 15, 2007 — Up to 40 million of the prescription bottles handed out in the U.S. today are filled with substances that aren't what they claim to be, according to this Sunday's issue of PARADE magazine. "Drug counterfeiting," a business that has expanded in the last five years, has already taken the lives of several Americans, and the perpetrators have walked off with nearly $35 billion in black-market profits. Unsuspecting consumers who buy prescription drugs from their corner pharmacy probably won't discover the reason why they are getting sicker instead of better.
15 February 2007