[e-drug] Repackaging medicines in pharmacies (6)

["Donald Light" <dlight@Princeton.EDU>]

E-DRUG: Repackaging medicines in pharmacies (6)
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Thank you. [To Sara Sellers] These are valuable. I understand that the FBI has been quite active in prosecuting some of the thousands of smaller wholesalers who sell fake drugs with high mark-ups for cancer and AIDS. Does anyone have information on this?

Don

Donald W. Light
dlight@Princeton.EDU
tel: 1-609-915-1588
fax: 1-609-924-1830

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Subject: [e-drug] Repackaging medicines in pharmacies (4)

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Hello E-Drug Colleagues.

For background on counterfeit vulnerabilities in the US including the
issue of repackaging, I recommend a series that ran in the Washington
Post in 2003, URLs below. I checked the links; but, should you have any
difficulties accessing I would be happy to forward pdfs on request. 

Pharmaceutical Roulette (Five-part series by Gilbert M. Gaul and Mary
Pat Flaherty, Washington Post):
 
"A Vast, Unregulated Shadow Market. U.S. Prescription Drug System Under
Attack: Multibillion-Dollar Shadow Market Is Growing Stronger"(19
October 2003, page A01; part 1)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44908-2003Oct18.html
 
"How the Internet Became a Pipeline for Deadly Drugs: Internet
Trafficking in Narcotics Has Surged" (20 October 2003; page A01; part 2)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50567-2003Oct19.html
 
"Dangerous Doctors Online: Doctors Medicate Strangers on Web" by Gilbert
M. Gaul and Mary Pat Flaherty (Washington Post, 21 October 2003, page
A01; part 3) 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55845-2003Oct20.html
 
" The Shadow Market and Counterfeit Drugs. Lax System Allows Criminals
To Invade the Supply Chain" (22 October 2003, page A01; part 4)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61473-2003Oct21.html
 
also see: 

"How Drugs Get to You" (22 October 2003)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/drugsday1.htm 

"A Ring of Fraud: Medicaid Is Start of Drug Resale Trail" (22 22, 2003;
page A17 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61478-2003Oct21.html]

Sarah Sellers, PharmD MPH
ssellers@jhsph.edu
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