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Have you heard about Prescription Drug Affordability Boards in your state? What do their upper payment limits mean for you as a patient? Learn how you'll be affected by them in this engaging conversation between Krystalyn K. Weaver, the CEO of
Learn how DSCSA makes medicine recalls easier, cheaper, and safer for patients.
DEA has creatd a web-page to all things pill press. Listen to learn more!
In March, the FDA warned six companies to stop selling unapproved over-the-counter topical pain relief products made with too much lidocaine. Learn more.
Boris Aminov, a leader in a HIV medication fraud scheme in New York, was sentenced to nine years in prison. Learn more about the case.
In March, a Las Vegas man got 8 years for distributing at least 300 pounds of illegally imported tapentadol, an opioid painkiller, via his online storefront. He also sold steroids and prescription muscle relaxants, ADHD meds and more.
Has a patient ever come into your pharmacy with a perfectly good package of medicine and asked for a clean bottle or box? This is something pharmacists are seeing, and it might be worth paying closer attention to.
In this emergency podcast recorded on Friday, April 21, former prosecutor Sam Louis, pharmaceutical wholesale and traceability expert Ron Bone, and PSM's executive director Shabbir Imber Safdar discuss what is likely happening in the case now,
In February, Alabama resident Sherri McCain agreed to plead guilty to mailing illegally imported prescription drugs like Xanax, gabapentin and tramadol. From 2017 to 2021 she accepted bulk packages of the drugs and reshipped them to buyers in 2
Last month law enforcement in Delhi, India broke up a multi-million dollar counterfeit oncology drug ring that sold thousands of vials of fake cancer treatments that were actually filled with an anti-fungal. They sold the medicines to drugstore
On February 19 Safe Chain Solutions, LLC agreed to forfeit $2.7 million to settle a lawsuit with Gilead Sciences over the alleged distribution of secondhand HIV medicines to licensed U.S. pharmacies. GIlead named the company as part of a ring t
Patients don't know they risk their lives when they take supplements that contain actual medications not listed on the labels. Learn more.
Nashville officials warned of xyalzine threat. Learn more about this on our website at www.safemedicines.org.
Etsy is an online marketplace that most people associate with vintage and handcrafted items. However, there is also a thriving trade in chemicals on the site, and some vendors sell homemade versions of highly regulated pharmaceuticals. They are
Though it sounds great, the ways in which Prescription Drug Affordability Boards are operating have negative implications for patients, funding of 340B programs, pharmacies, and the safety of the supply chain.PSM's Shabbir Imber Safdar and CAN
Listen to our congressional briefing panels! In May 2022, PSM joined experts for an online congressional briefing to discuss the implications of Canadian and foreign prescription drug importation proposals on our ongoing ability to protect the
Over the past decade, PBMs have been cutting the reimbursements pharmacies receive for the medicine they dispense to insured patients into smaller and smaller amounts. In many places, those reimbursements don’t fully cover the acquisition cost
Arizona-based Nootropics Depot will pay a forfeiture of $2.4 million for selling a bunch of unapproved drugs, including tianeptine, an antidepressant that's not approved in the U.S. but shows up in supplements. In fact, nine states have banned
A federal grand jury in California indicted two men for their alleged roles in a darknet-based drug trafficking scheme that sold over 120,000 fentanyl pills and 20 pounds of methamphetamine to approximately 1400 customers in all 50 states. Two
1,800 pill presses seized in the first 60 days of fiscal year 2024.
Another black market HIV case has been successfully prosecuted.
Over the past decade, PBMs have been cutting the reimbursements pharmacies receive for the medicine they dispense to insured patients into smaller and smaller amounts. In many places, those reimbursements don’t fully cover the acquisition cost
On January 31, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that eBay had agreed to pay $59 million to settle allegations it had not followed recordkeeping and reporting requirements for the sale of pill presses and encapsulating machines that
Why did more than 100 children across the country with treatable cancer suddenly spike high fevers? Some fell into comas. Four died. Learn more about this mystery in Colombia.
Senator Mike Braun, the ranking member on the Senate Special Committee on Aging released a report examining the four-fold increase in overdose deaths among Americans 65 and older over the last 20 years. The report recommended increased research
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