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Topics: Foreign Drug Importation | The Fake Pill Crisis | Counterfeit Drugs in the U.S. | Explainers
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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 ...
How Many Tests Need to Be Performed to Know That a Batch of Pills is Safe?
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, ...
Avoid COVID scams by buying medicine safely – Read our tips in English and en Español
Download our guide, AVOID SCAMS & COUNTERFEITS: Quick Tips to Safely Purchase Medicines Online (in English | en Español) to learn more about how to protect yourself and your loved ones from fake COVID-19 treatments.
HHS comments come in overwhelmingly against Canadian drug importation proposal
HHS comments come in overwhelmingly against Canadian drug importation proposal March 2020 Yesterday ended a 78-day comment period for the White House's proposal to import medicine from Canada. In all, over 1,000 comments were filed. Overwhelmingly, these comments opposed the proposed rule or expressed skepticism that the rule could meet ...
Infographic: Counterfeiting By The Numbers
Download Counterfeiting by the Numbers In January 2020, The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released Combating Trafficking in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods. The report documents the extraordinary scale of the global counterfeiting market and its effects across all economic sectors—including medicines. Counterfeits are ubiquitous across the whole world, including the ...
How do you test whether a medication is legitimate?
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 safe requires testing at least 22 pills. To learn more about this topic, read PSM's summary: safedr.ug/Acri-Explained. Click ...
Myth: We are getting the same drugs Canadians take
Myth: We are getting the same drugs Canadians take September 2019
Illegal Pill Presses: An Overlooked Threat to American Patients (2019)
The supply of and demand for dangerous counterfeit and illegally-imported medications has created one of our country's most serious health challenges-and the prevalence of illegal pill presses are contributing to this crisis. For more information Visit the report launch site Read our 2021 update.