Posts Tagged ‘fentanyl pills’
Counterfeit Medicine News for the Week of November 16, 2020
In PSM’s round-up this week: Government authorities take legal action against COVID scammers; an insurance broker (allegedly) decided to open his own unlicensed pharmacy; ongoing counterfeit medicine news, and more.
[...]Counterfeit Medicine News for the Week of November 9, 2020
In PSM’s round-up this week: An analysis of New Mexico’s draft drug importation plan, reports on COVID-19 fraud, and this week in counterfeit medicine news.
[...]Counterfeit Medicine News for the Week of November 2, 2020
In PSM’s round-up this week: FDA and FTC warnings over fake COVID-19 treatments and fraud, as well as fake medicine news in seven U.S. states, Canada and Cambodia.
[...]Counterfeit Medicine News for the Week of October 26, 2020
In PSM’s round-up this week: news about state drug importation, COVID-19 fraud, fake hand sanitizer stations, and more counterfeit medicine news.
[...]Deadly Counterfeit Pills Found in All 50 U.S. States; Deaths Now Reported in 42 of Them (Archived)
With the recent report that police in Maui, Hawaii seized 400 counterfeit oxycodone pills made with fentanyl on October 2, 2020, the United States has reached a sobering milestone: public sources have reported about fake pills made with fentanyl in all 50 states.
[...]Counterfeit Medicine News for the Week of October 19, 2020
In PSM’s round-up this week: news about state drug importation, COVID-19 fraud, deadly workout supplements and counterfeit pills made with fentanyl.
[...]Counterfeit Medicine: Crime and Policy, October 20, 2020
A summary briefing of 2020’s major cases, worrying trends and a deep dive into drug supply chain policy issues.
[...]Counterfeit Medicine News for the Week of October 12, 2020
In PSM’s round-up this week: new reports about counterfeit medicine, drug supply chain regulation and phishing scams; FDA warnings about dangerous supplements; a life sentence for fake pill kingpin Aaron Shamo; and more.
[...]Counterfeit Medicine News for the Week of October 5, 2020
In PSM’s round-up this week: Policy truths about drug importation, prosecutions for fake COVID-19 treatments and financial fraud, and another week in counterfeit pills.
[...]US Attorney for Arizona Calls Illicit Fentanyl “The Most Dangerous Drug We Have Confronted as a Nation”
In the first seven months of 2020, the Arizona Department of Health Services reported over 2,700 newly suspected opioid overdose deaths in Arizona. What makes this figure more startling is that there were just over 3,800 suspected opioid deaths in the preceding 30 months. The problem is escalating, and rapidly.
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