Counterfeit Drugs: A Dangerous Threat to American Patients – Sources

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This page collects the articles cited in the SAFEMEDICINES booklet Counterfeit Drugs: A Dangerous Threat to American Patients. Sources are listed by citation.  Each citation contains links to articles or reports, usually at their source. Because digital content is often moved or removed from the Internet we have also included a pdf copy of each article or report if the material is freely accessible on the web.

 

Footnotes:

  1. Brian D. Findlay, Counterfeit Drugs and National Security. Stimson, February 2011, www.stimson.org. (original link | local copy)
  2. “Fake Drugs Kill over 700,000 People Every Year – New Report,” International Policy Network, press release, www.policynetwork.net. (original link | local copy)
  3. Partnership for Safe Medicines, “7 Most Common Counterfeit Drugs,” August 23, 2012, www.safemedicines.org. (original link)
  4. “Texas Children Given Fake Antibiotics,” Houston Chronicle, April 29, 2012, www.chron.com. (original link | local copy)
  5. Vickie Chachere, “Attorney General Sues Tampa Couple Over Fake Cystic Fibrosis Drug,”The Florida TImes-Union, April 7, 2005, jacksonville.com. (original link | local copy)
  6. James Cracknell, “Businessmen on Trial for Counterfeit Inhaler Scam,” Uxbridge Gazette, June 23, 2011, http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/ (formerly www.uxbridgegazette.co.uk) (original link | local copy)Asthma UK, “Asthma Facts and FAQs,” www.asthma.org.uk. (original link | local copy)
  7. Lydia Polgreen, “84 Children Are Killed by Medicine in Nigeria,” New York Times, February 6, 2009, www.nytimes.com (original link)Walt Bogdanovich and Jane Hooker, “From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine,” New York Times, May 6, 2007, www.nytimes.com. (original link)
  8. Partnership for Safe Medicines, “Learn 5 Kinds Of Poisons Found In Counterfeit Medicines,” March 23, 2012, www.safemedicines.org. (original link)
  9. World Health Organization, “World Malaria Report 2011—Briefing on Revised Estimates of Cases and Deaths,” www.who.int. (original link | local copy)Margie Mason, “Fake Malaria Drugs Litter Southeast Asia, Africa,” The Associated Press, May 22, 2012, news.findlaw.com/apnews/. (original link | local copy)
  10. Olga Khazan, “How Fake Drugs Cause the Spread of Untreatable TB in Developing Countries,” Washington Post blog, February 5, 2013, www. washingtonpost.com. (original link | local copy)R. Bate, et al, “Substandard and Falsified Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs: A Preliminary Field Analysis,”The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Volume 17 (3), March 2013, pp. 308–311(4), masetto.ingentaselect.co.uk. (original link | local copy)Jason Koebler, “WHO: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis a Growing Problem,”US News and World Report, March 18, 2013, www.usnews.com. (original link | local copy)
  11. Centers for Disease Control, “Diseases/Pathogens Associated with Antimicrobial Resistance,” January 9, 2013, www.cdc.gov. (original link | local copy)
  12. US Food and Drug Administration, “Letters to Doctors about Risks of Purchasing Medications from Foreign or Unlicensed Suppliers,” September 21, 2012, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)
    Partnership for Safe Medicines, “Counterfeit Drug Incident Encyclopedia,” www.safemedicines.org. (original link)
  13. Food and Drug Administration, “Letters to Doctors about Risks of Purchasing Unapproved Versions of Botox and Other Medications from Foreign or Unlicensed Suppliers,” December 19, 2012, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)
  14. Brian Hamacher, “Cops: Woman Arrested For Fake Botox Injections,” 6 South Florida, May 26, 2011, www.nbcmiami.com. (original link | local copy)Ann W. O’Neill, “Doctor Tied To Botulism Case,” Sun Sentinel, March 23, 2005, www.sun-sentinel.com. (original link | local copy)
  15. US Food and Drug Administration, “Letters to Doctors about Risks of Purchasing Medications from Foreign or Unlicensed Suppliers,” September 21, 2012, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)
  16. Thomas Christi to David Mandel, September 10, 2012, Food and Drug Administration Drug Integrity and Supply Chain Security website, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)
  17. “Attorney General Conway Announces Sentencing of Grayson County Doctor for Use of Non-FDA Approved Birth Control Device,” Kentucky Office of the Attorney General, August 12, 2013, migration.kentucky.gov. (original link | local copy)“Owner Of Bluegrass Women’s Healthcare In Elizabethtown Charged With Health Care Fraud, Mail Fraud, Misbranding And Smuggling,” United States Attorney’s Office, Western District of Kentucky, March 21, 2013, www.justice.gov. (original link | local copy)“FDA Cautions Against Using Unapproved IUDs,” United States Food and Drug Administration, July 22, 2010, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)
  18. United States Food and Drug Administration, “Beware of Fraudulent Flu Products,” February 15, 2013, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)
  19. “FDA Warns Consumers about Counterfeit Version of Teva’s Adderall,” United States Food and Drug Administration, May 29, 2012, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)
  20. “FDA Warns Consumers about Counterfeit Alli,” United States Food and Drug Administration, January 18, 2010, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)
  21. United States House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources, Sick Crime: Counterfeit Drugs in the United States, Hearing November 1, 2005. Washington: Government Printing Office, 2005, 76. www.gpo.gov. (original link | local copy)
  22. Sam Solomon, “BC Woman Killed by Fake Drugs Bought Online,” National Review of Medicine, Volume 4 (13), March 2013, www.national reviewofmedicine.com. (original link | local copy)“Glenda on Rogue Sites,” YouTube video, 3:05, a US Chamber of Commerce video posted by “FightOnlineTheft,” July 21, 2011, www.youtube.com. (link to video)
  23. Andy Dolan,“Paramedic Died After Taking Tablets She Bought Over the Internet to Help Her Sleep,”Daily Mail, May 20, 2011, www.dailymail.co.uk.(original link | local copy)
  24. Mary Pat Flaherty and Gilbert M. Gaul, “Experimentation Turns Deadly for One Teenager,” Washington Post, October 21, 2003, www.washingtonpost.com. (original link | local copy)
  25. “FDA Warns CanaRx Services about its Illegal Internet Website and Mail Operation Obtaining Unapproved and Potentially Risky Drugs from Canada,” United States Food and Drug Administration Press Release, September 16, 2003, retrieved from scienceblog.com. (original link | local copy)See, for example, Diane C. Gorman, Assistant Deputy Minister of Health Canada in 2004: “Health Canada does not assure that products being sold to U.S. citizens are safe, effective, and of high quality, and does not intend to do so in the future,” quoted in the HHS Task Force on Drug Importation’s Report on Prescription Drug Importation, December 2004, 61, archive.hhs.gov. (original link | local copy)
  26. See, for example: Colleen McCarty, “Pharmacy Board Could Set AG’s Opinion Aside,” 8 News, December 28, 2005, www.8newsnow.com. (original link | local copy)”Senate Bill 1989/House Bill 1870 — Consistent with Federal Law?,” State of the Tennessee Office of the Attorney General Op. No. 05-083, May 16, 2005, www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral. (original link | local copy)Kansas Attorney General Op. No. 2005-11, March 30, 2005, ksag.washburnlaw.edu. (original link | local copy)Kathryn M. Rowe (Assistant Attorney General of Maryland), letter to Delegate Kumar P. Barve, January 28, 2004, www.oag.state.md.us. (original link | local copy)Steve Kemme, “State Questions Drug Program,”The Cincinnati Enquirer, August 2, 2003, www.enquirer.com. (original link | local copy)
  27. Christopher Weaver, “U.S. Fake-Drug Probe Puts Spotlight on Role of Doctors,”Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2012, online.wsj.com. (original link)
  28. “Local Oncology Practice Sentenced to Pay Millions for Medicare Fraud,” U.S. Department of Justice Press Release. June 28, 2013, www.justice. gov. (original link | local copy)“August 8, 2011: Laurel Oncologist Pleads Guilty to Purchasing Misbranded Drugs,” Food and Drug Administration, April 8, 2011, www. fda.gov. (original link | local copy)“February 16, 2012: Local Cancer Doctor Pleads Guilty to Receiving Misbranded Cancer Drugs Two Californians also Named in Indictment,” Food and Drug Administration, February 16, 2012, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)Jamie Satterfield,“Doctor, Business Manager Charged in Bootleg Drug Scheme,” KnoxNews, November 29, 2012, www.knoxnews.com. (original link | local copy)“Attorney General Conway Announces Sentencing of Grayson County Doctor for Use of Non-FDA Approved Birth Control Device,” Kentucky Office of the Attorney General, August 12, 2013, migration.kentucky.gov. (original link | local copy)Brian Dulle, “Kidney Dialysis Patients Received Misbranded Drugs,” Kansas First News, May 21, 2013, www.kansasfirstnews.com. (original link | local copy)Ted Phillips, “Guilty Plea in $155M LI Drug Fraud Ring,”Long Island Newsday, April 17, 2013, www.newsday.com. (original link | local copy)
  29. “2nd Johnson City Cancer Doctor, Wife Charged with Using Unapproved Cancer Drugs,” Times News, June 13, 2013, www.timesnews.net. (original link | local copy)“Owner Of Bluegrass Women’s Healthcare In Elizabethtown Charged With Health Care Fraud, Mail Fraud, Misbranding And Smuggling,” United States Attorney’s Office, Western District of Kentucky, March 21, 2013, www.justice.gov. (original link | local copy)“Seven Oncologists Charged With Importing Unapproved Drugs,” United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Ohio, August 13, 2013, www.justice.gov. (original link | local copy)
  30. Food and Drug Administration, “Letters to Doctors about Risks of Purchasing Unapproved Versions of Botox and Other Medications from Foreign or Unlicensed Suppliers,” December 19, 2012, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)US Food and Drug Administration, “Letters to Doctors about Risks of Purchasing Medications from Foreign or Unlicensed Suppliers,” September 21, 2012, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)
  31. United States General Accounting Office, Internet Pharmacies: Federal Agencies and States Face Challenges Combating Rogue Sites, Particularly Those Abroad,  23–24. (original link | local copy)
  32. Phil Taylor, “US Counterfeit Drug Seizures Up 200 Per Cent in 2011,” Securing Industry, January 19,2012, www.securingindustry.com. (original link | local copy)
  33. “Counterfeit Version of Avastin in U.S. Distribution,” United States Food and Drug Administration, updated July 10, 2012, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)Christopher Weaver and Jane Whalen, “How Fake Cancer Drugs Entered U.S.,” Wall Street Journal, July 20, 2012, online.wsj.com. (original link)
  34. Robert Patrick, “Drug supplier admits distributing unapproved foreign medications,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, February 22, 2012, www.stltoday.com. (original link | local copy)
  35. Department of Justice, “South Florida Man Sentenced to 120 Months in Prison in Drug Diversion Scheme,” September 12, 2012, www.justice.gov. (original link | local copy)
  36. “Man Convicted for Role in International Counterfeit Drug Distribution Scheme. Search Continues for Organization’s Ringleader,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement, August 9, 2012, www.ice.gov. (original link | local copy)
  37. Dan Rather, “The Mysterious Case of Kevin Xu,” Dan Rather Reports, HD.net, aired September 14, 2010, transcript, www.axs.tv. (original link | local copy)
  38. Lana Ivanitskaya, et al, “Dirt Cheap and Without Prescription: How Susceptible Are Young Us Consumers To Purchasing Drugs From Rogue Internet Pharmacies?” Journal of Medical Internet Research 2010;12(2): E11. (original link | local copy)Tim Mackey and Bryan Liang, “Global Reach Of Direct-To-Consumer Advertising Using Social Media For Illicit Online Drug Sales,” Journal of Medical Internet Research 2013 Sept 12; 15(5):E105. (original link | local copy)Bryan Liang, Tim Mackey, and Kimberly Lovett, “Illegal “No Prescription” Internet Access To Narrow Therapeutic Index Drugs,” Clinical Therapeutics, 2013 Apr 15; S0149-2918(13)00167–7. (link to abstract | local copy)
  39. National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program, Progress Report for State and Federal Regulators, January 2013, www.nabp.net. (original link | local copy)
  40. “FDA Operation Reveals Many Drugs Promoted as “Canadian” Products Really Originate From Other Countries,” United States Food and Drug Administration, December 16, 2005, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)
  41. See note 40.
  42. See Chapter VIII, Section 802 of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, www.fda.gov. (original link | local copy)
  43. National Health Service, “Where Can I Get an Emergency Supply of Medicine?” November 6, 2012, www.nhs.uk. (original link | local copy)
  44. Partnership for Safe Medicines, “Buying Asthma Medication Online Can Be Safe And Affordable,” May 02, 2012, www.safemedicines.org. (original link)
  45. “Same Generic Drug, Many Prices,” Consumer Reports, May 2013, www.consumerreports.org. (original link | local copy)