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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 ...
A California medical examiner first alerted federal authorities in the spring of 2019, when 29-year-old Brennan Harrell died of a fentanyl overdose after he and a friend bought pills at a drug ...
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 ...
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.
The Prescription Drug Marketing Act (PDMA) of 1987 (P.L. 100-293, 102 Stat. 95) is a law of the United States federal government.It establishes legal safeguards for prescription drug distribution to ensure safe and effective pharmaceuticals and is designed to discourage the sale of counterfeit, adulterated, misbranded, sub potent, and expired prescription 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 ...
Fentanyl is responsible for the death of 20% of teens and young adults in California (15 - 24). According to California Health Policy Strategies statistics, drug overdoses are now two to three times more fatal than state car accidents. The number of California state fatalities linked to synthetic opioids has climbed by 1,027% since 2017. [3]
Los Angeles health officials caution travelers against purchasing prescriptions over-the-counter in Mexico.