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Are Canadian patients struggling with drug shortages already?
Canada has 38 million citizens, and Florida has 22 million. If Florida starts importing medicine from Canada, will it worsen already existing drug shortages in Canada? PSM's Shabbir Imber Safdar spoke with Canadian patient advocate Durhane Wong-Rieger about drug shortages in Canada. Learn more about Florida's plan to import medicine ...
Teach Your Community With These Conference Slides
Teach your community with these conference slides. Are you organizing a conference? Running slides between conference sessions and during breaks is a great way to fit in a little extra information for your community members-and there's a lot to know about counterfeit medicines in the U.S. These Q&A slides offer ...
Protect Your Patients and Your Practice
PSM and the American Medical Women's Association worked together on this resource for physicians. Download a PDF copy for your own reference. Download this resource
Why won’t Canadian drug importation work?
Why won't Canadian drug importation work? January 2023 Download our factsheet: Why won't Canadian importation work?
Pandemic counterfeits demonstrate the danger of Canadian drug importation
Pandemic counterfeits demonstrate the danger of Canadian drug importation January 2023 Download our factsheet Pandemic counterfeits demonstrate the danger of Canadian drug importation.
What Canadians are saying about importation
What Canadians are saying about importation January 2023 Download our factsheet citing Canadian opinions about importation..
Canada doesn’t have track and trace
Canada doesn't have track and trace January 2023 Download our factsheet about how Canadian importation breaks the U.S. track and trace system.
Illegal Pill Presses Pose Serious, Nationwide Threat to American Patients and Communities
Illegal Pill Presses Pose Serious, Nationwide Threat To American Patients And Communities WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 3, 2021) - Today, the Partnership for Safe Medicines and the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators released an updated report titled Illegal Pill Presses: An Overlooked Threat to American Patients. The report shows that, ...
Are safety-tested imported drugs still cheaper? No. They are more expensive.
Testing medicine for legitimacy is a complicated process. Across 24 different prescription medicines, the average cost to test a single dose is $2,750. However, ensuring that a batch of 100 pills is 90% certain to be safe requires testing at least 22 pills. Achieving 99.999% certainty requires even more testing, ...
Criminal Internet Pharmacy Networks Are Capitalizing on COVID-19.
In May 2020, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) released Rogue Online Pharmacies in the Time of Pandemic: Capitalizing on Misinformation and Fear, which focuses on how established fake pharmacy networks have pivoted to cash in on the coronavirus. PSM's illustrated version of the report offers a compact ...