Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies Names the Winners of the 2017 Global Patient Safety Champions Award

October 18, 2017

This year Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP) has inaugurated a Global Patient Safety Champion award to recognize individuals and organizations that are working to protect patient safety and preserve the gold standard of FDA approval for all American patients.

Read More

Royal Mounted Police Announce Seizure of 40,000 Fake Fentanyl Pills

October 18, 2017

Authorities in British Columbia announced drug charges against two Vancouver-area residents in a case involving 40,000 fake fentanyl pills. RCMP believes countless lives were saved by keeping these counterfeit pills off the streets…

Read More

Health Officials In Seattle Warn of Counterfeit “Kill Pills” Made With Fentanyl

October 17, 2017

Public health officials in Seattle announced that a batch of pills found on a body tested positive for fentanyl. They urged the public to be careful, reminding them that fentanyl has no smell or taste and a simple visual inspection cannot say whether a pill is real or a counterfeit…

Read More

Safe Savings Tip: Generic Norvasc Is Over 75% Cheaper In The U.S. Than In Canada

October 16, 2017

People think all prescription drugs cost less in Canada, but is that true? We did a price comparison for amlodipine, generic Norvasc, the sixth most frequently prescribed prescription drug in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2016. When we called a brick-and-mortar pharmacy in Canada, we were quoted the price of $24.62 for a 30-day supply, but we found those same pills at pharmacies in the U.S. for only $5.50…

Read More

AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group Admits To Distributing Millions of Misbranded Oncology Drug Products

October 13, 2017

AmerisourceBergen Speciality Group is part of one of the largest wholesale drug companies in the U.S. and recently admitted in federal court to having distributed millions of misbranded oncology drug products throughout the U.S. over the course of 13 years…

Read More

United Kingdom Is A Target And A Hub For Counterfeit Medicines From India

October 12, 2017

The United Kingdom is fighting a battle against counterfeit medicines on two front. The first fight is to keep them out of the hands of her citizens. The second fight is to not let the fake Indian pharmaceutical companies use their country as a postal hub…

Read More

Maryland Woman Sentenced For Illegally Injecting Clients With Industrial Grade Silicone

October 11, 2017

Kendra Westmoreland of Maryland received a two-year prison sentence after admitting that she lied to her clients for 15 years. She was not injecting them with medical grade silicone, which it is illegal because of potential health complications. It was actually industrial grade silicone…

Read More

PSM’s President Weighs in on Importation Fueling Fentanyl Epidemic

October 10, 2017

As PSM’s Board President, Dr. Marv Shepherd, wrote in an editorial for the Washington Examiner that was published on October 10, 2017, opening the United States to unregulated, imported drugs will offer fentanyl traffickers even more access to Americans:

“The reality is that criminals throughout the illegal supply chain from China to the streets of U.S. cities are making money at the cost of American lives. We need to be taking steps to eliminate illegal fentanyl from our communities, not providing new avenues for those who want to see just the opposite happen.”

Read More

Doctor Sentenced To 40 Months For Distributing Unapproved Medicine

October 9, 2017

Dr. George Patino convicted and sentenced for conspiracy, distributing Human Growth Hormone (HGH) for unauthorized medical purposes, and smuggling. He brought non-FDA approved HGH over from Mexico to treat patients with it for unapproved medical purposes…

Read More

Five CanadaDrugs.com Defendants Have Extradition Hearing Dates Set for May 2018

October 6, 2017

Five of the six men who stand accused for their roles in the $78M CanadaDrugs.com counterfeit Avastin case, which saw fake cancer drugs turn up in 28 states, finally received their extradition hearing date…

Read More