The internet is overrun with content promoting injectable weight loss medicines and there’s no way for viewers to know whether what they’re seeing is legitimate, genuine, safe, or true. Policymakers, social media platforms, and individuals can make changes to protect the public in this dangerous advertising environment.
Read our roadmap to uphold the gold standard system that protects Americans from untested and unsafe medicines.
AFPs, which often force patients to source medicines overseas, may present access concerns according to a new study.
Similar importation programs have been plagued with logistical hurdles, despite extensive funding of the efforts.
“Colorado is now poised to repeat Florida’s failed attempt to implement Canadian drug importation,” said PSM Executive Director Shabbir Imber Safdar. “Since beginning their program in 2019, Florida has spent $132 million and still not imported a single unit of medicine, proving that these bulk importation programs are not reducing drug costs for Americans.”
As the popularity of peptides skyrockets, consumers should be asking questions about where their drugs come from. Here’s what we found in shipment data for peptides in Q1.
Retatrutide, an experimental weight loss drug that hasn’t been submitted for FDA-approval, is being prescribed in weight loss clinics and med spas across the country.
March and April 2026 saw thousands of shipments of drugs imported into the US, including weight loss drugs and antibiotics. We studied these shipments to learn more about their manufacturers and contents.
Americans buying prescription medicines in Mexico are overlooking widespread drug counterfeiting in the country, and as AFPs popularize medical tourism to lower costs, what happens in Mexico’s drug supply chain is even more of a problem for Americans.
The scheme, which produced counterfeit oxycodone, Adderall, and Xanax, is linked to over a dozen deaths, according to prosecutors.