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The DEA has found pill presses, punches and other substances that can be used to make fake pills containing fentanyl are being offered for sale on various platforms. In 2023, the DEA seized over ...
It’s not just border cities that have seen deaths and overdoses from fentanyl-tainted pills bought in Mexican pharmacies. The 2019 case that wound up on the DEA’s radar stemmed from a purchase ...
Around 25% of India's drugs are fake, counterfeit or substandard. If the fake drugs market grows at the current rate of 25%, it will cross the US$10 billion mark by 2017. Trade in fake drugs is driven caused by lack of adequate regulations, shortage of drug inspectors and a lack of lab facilities to check the purity of drugs.
"We need to ring the alarm bells," said the mom of a teen who died after unknowingly buying a fentanyl-laced pill via social media. Fake 'prescription' pills sold to teens, others may contain ...
The interest of organized crime towards the illicit trafficking of counterfeit medicines is clearly demonstrated by figures. [15] For instance, a pill of ecstasy costs between €0.20 and €0.30 and it is generally sold at €5. A Viagra pill costs around €0.15 and it is sold via an illicit website at around 8 to €10. A kilo of counterfeit ...
Generic drug manufacturers often change the way in which prescription drug ingredients are made in order to lower costs of making them, so this kind of contamination may be more widespread and undetected in generic drugs. [21] 2022–2023 United States P. aeruginosa outbreak in eye drops
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In November 2016, the DEA uncovered an operation making counterfeit oxycodone and Xanax from a home in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. They found about 70,000 pills in the appearance of oxycodone and more than 25,000 in the appearance of Xanax. The DEA reported that millions of pills could have been distributed from this location over the course of time.