The U.S. Department of Justice, according to Seeking Alpha, is investigating the sale and distribution of counterfeit drugs in the U.S. that may have amounted to a quarter-billion dollars. The investigation comes about two months after The Wall Street Journal reported on a lawsuit filed by Gilead Sciences alleging a massive breach in the U.S. drug supply chain […]
Category: Drug Safety
Manitoba Judge’s Opinion Reveals Different Side of the CanadaDrugs Case
A recent opinion from an appeals court in Manitoba, Canada sheds new and more favorable light about the CanadaDrugs-related wholesale drug importation case that was first covered a decade ago in the Wall Street Journal. The case pertained to an indictment of CanadaDrugs, Ltd. for sales of mostly misbranded (but not counterfeit drugs) and two […]
State Boards of Pharmacy Missing in Action During Opioid Crisis
This post should serve as the beginning of a serious inquiry into the failure of U.S. state boards of pharmacy to properly regulate pharmacies that irresponsibly and too often illegally profited from opioid drug sales to patients. Sociologist Elizabeth Chiarello writes, “Boards have a duty to protect the public, but because they are mostly comprised […]