A Growing Epidemic of Deadly Fake Drugs
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Officials estimate that counterfeits of life-saving drugs may be a factor in up to 200,000 deaths each year.
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A spate of recent deaths has stirred fears of a broader outbreak among people and raised the possibility of a human pandemic.
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The F.D.A. has begun to crack down on the thousands of drugs, often made by small companies, that have never had to go through the agencyâs stringent approval process.
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Mexican authorities are investigating the sale of fake or substandard medicine in a border town so popular among Americans seeking cheap medications that it has more pharmacies than streets.    U.S...
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At least 13 performers have been murdered this year, in apparently drug-related bloodshed. Are musicians being targeted, or merely collateral damage in the drug war?
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Coupling New England ingenuity with anti-counterfeiting technology, doctors and police in Rutland, Vt., have developed a plan to thwart drug users who forge prescriptions for powerful pain killers like OxyContin.
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(National-NBC) Nov. 15, 2004 - A new government initiative will put radio antennas on the labels of some of the most counterfeited drugs in the world.
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Despite an official government crackdown, blatant street sales of illegally copied Hollywood films, fake auto parts and pharmaceuticals are thriving.
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The UN says fake prescription drugs are swamping developing nations with sometimes fatal results.
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Medics fear public safety could be compromised by the growing interest in using drugs for law enforcement.
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BEIJING -- China said yesterday that it was investigating the sale of fake blood protein, a potentially dangerous and widespread practice that underscores the country's problems with product safety.
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The prescription drug industry has grown enormously in the past few years, to the tune of an estimated $200 billion every year. Consumers and medical professionals have sharpened their criticism of the industry
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These weren't just bugs. These were bugs on drugs.
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Unintentional fatal drug overdoses in the United States nearly doubled from 1999 to 2004, overtaking falls to become the nation's second-leading cause of accidental death, behind automobile crashes, the government reported
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Abuse of prescription drugs is about to exceed the use of illicit street narcotics worldwide, and the shift has spawned a lethal new trade in counterfeit painkillers, sedatives and other medicines potent enough to kill, a global watchdog warned Wednesday.
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New studies are raising questions about whether drugs that have been used by millions of cancer patients might actually be harming them.
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Half of Viagra tablets sold on the Internet are fake, research suggests.