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I'm your pusherman...How Washington doc doled out hydrocodone online
Wednesday, 22 April 2009 When the DEA suspended the drug registration of Peter Pfeiffer on Monday, the agency said the Bellingham, Washington-based physician had illegally... Read more...  The deal with Canada Friday, 20 March 2009 Why are there so many Canadian online pharmacies? I found my answer in a superb article from 2007 called "Drug Trade," in B.C. Business Magazine. In... Read more...
Obama's New Drug Czar?
Friday, 20 March 2009 On inauguration day, January 20, 2009, President Obama appointed Edward H. Jurith, the former general counsel of the Office of National Drug Control... Read more...
From the UN, a view of the global online pharma trade
Monday, 20 April 2009 In an interview, Gisela Weiser, an expert from the UN Narcotics Control Board, answered questions about a global survey that her office has been... Read more...
A Diverting Issue
Sunday, 19 April 2009 Question: what is the only major drug that is available as a natural, harvested product? If you said marijuana, you'd be right. All other drugs have... Read more...
UN to governments: Curb trafficking of prescription drugs
Friday, 20 March 2009 On Tuesday, the UN narcotics watchdog posted guidelines to governments on how to curb online pill pushing, as governments reported rising trends in... Read more...
FBI dips Its toe in the e-pharma pool
Friday, 20 March 2009 The FBI seems to be doing a soft-shoe shuffle with the recent release of its public safety announcement on how to spot an illegal online pharmacy.... Read more...
Online doctor linked to Stanford suicide, pleads guilty
Tuesday, 10 March 2009 The war against illegally prescribing online drugs scored a small victory this week. The Colorado doctor who prescribed anti-depressants to a... Read more...
No prescription required?
Thursday, 19 February 2009 Some online pharmacies have a free live chat feature on their websites. Here, customers can have a one-on-one chat with a live person, who’s... Read more...
Drug wholesalers caught between a rock and a hard place
Monday, 16 February 2009 The Drug Enforcement Administration’s clampdown on rogue pharmacies has left wholesalers with their backs against the wall. Take the case of... Read more...
HGH anyone?
Thursday, 12 February 2009 It’s illegal to market human-growth hormone or hGH as an anti-aging treatment. But as I found out, it’s not that difficult to find an online... Read more...
Barry Bonds, baseball & online pharma
Monday, 09 February 2009 What would sports pages in the U.S. do without Barry Bonds? The disgraced baseball player was in court and in headlines once again this week when... Read more...  Faked in Switzerland Friday, 20 March 2009 Counterfeit drugs have typically been thought to emanate from among a number of developing countries, including China and India, whose abundance of... Read more...
In the UK, a haul of fake drugs is seized
Friday, 20 March 2009 The BBC reported last week that an investigation into the UK-based Web site Pharma2u.com by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency... Read more...
Despite sentencing, Web salesman still peddling "sexual supplements"
Wednesday, 04 March 2009 Last month, Jared Robert Wheat, an online pharma entrepreneur from Georgia, was sentenced to four years in jail for manufacturing counterfeit drugs... Read more...
Numbers war over fake drugs
Monday, 02 March 2009 A headline in the UK-based Daily Telegraph must have struck fear in the hearts of those who get drugs from online pharmacies: "Three in five drugs... Read more...
Aegate's counterfeit detector
Monday, 02 March 2009 The British company Aegate says it has developed the ultimate counterfeit-drug detector: a giant, centralized online database which lists virtually... Read more...
Counterfeiter Conviction
Monday, 02 March 2009 The National Center for Policy Analysis brief issued late last month warned about the increasing threat posed by foreign counterfeit drugs. Devon... Read more...
Pangea: Global raid on online pharma
Friday, 20 March 2009 On November 12, 2008, Interpol, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies in at least TEN countries raided... Read more...
Online pharmacy doctor gets 4 years
Friday, 20 March 2009 Juan Ibanez, a doctor in Florida, was recently sentenced to four years in jail for approving prescriptions for hydrocodone, an addictive painkiller,... Read more...
Costa Rica: Online pharma paradise?
Monday, 09 February 2009 Costa Rica, the tourist paradise known for its beaches and rainforests, is also becoming an Eden for illegal online pharmacies. Read more...
Hello? Fake FDA agent calling...
Monday, 09 February 2009 If you get a call inviting you to buy cheap prescription drugs, think twice. The Food and Drug Administration issued a press release last November... Read more... Warning: getimagesize(http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2277/206/113/1472246541/n1472246541_30223460_5836.jpg) [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found in /home/stabilecenter/behindonlinepharma.com/modules/mod_globalnews/helper.php on line 17
Finding doctors for online pharmacies
Sunday, 12 April 2009 How do online pharmacies find doctors to work for them? Apparently, it's not that hard. Online forums, for one, allow online pharmacy owners to make... Read more...  Tips from the Geekery: How drug sellers can outwit the FDA Friday, 20 March 2009 A recent post on Jonathan Richman's blog Dose of Digital opens with a snappy confrontation. The post, "How to Avoid FDA Regulations Using Mobile... Read more...
2009 ePharma Summit
Friday, 20 March 2009 They’ve got a Facebook group. They’re on LinkedIn. Hell, they’ve even got a Twitter feed. The folks behind the 2009 ePharma Summit—held in... Read more...
McCain, Estonia and online Viagra
Monday, 09 February 2009 What does a cybercriminal from Estonia have in common with John McCain? The simple answer is Viagra. During the election campaign, spammers used... Read more...  Why spam-mail when you can spam-phone? Monday, 29 November 1999 What do you have to do to get onto a do-not-call list? As seen on The Consumerist, one Californian was being pestered by online pharmacy... Read more...
Family blames online pharmacy for mother's drug addiction and death
Wednesday, 01 April 2009 California’s 17KGET.com news site covered an interesting story this week about how a Bakersfield family blames their mother’s death on addiction... Read more...
Big pharma firms merge in the face of flagging sales
Monday, 29 November 1999 The Associated Press reported yesterday that pharmaceutical giant Merck is buying Schering-Plough Corp. The merger will form the world’s... Read more...
Finally, UN tells members to work together to crack down on illegal online pharma
Friday, 20 March 2009 Wide disparities in enforcement and regulations have encouraged the worldwide proliferation of rogue online pharmacies. In the late 1990s, the... Read more...
Seniors up in arms over limits on pharma imports
Thursday, 05 March 2009 One of the unintended victims of rogue online pharmacies are senior citizens who depend on low-cost drugs from overseas. Advocates for the elderly,... Read more...
You bought a fake pill, now what?
Monday, 02 March 2009 You ordered medicine online, it was delivered to your home, but there seems to be something wrong. You suspect it's fake -- the markings on the pill... Read more...  Tramadol and the trendiest online drugs Wednesday, 11 March 2009 At one bustling forum for e-pharmacy affiliates, one thread from a few weeks ago discussed the trendiest, top-selling drugs selling online today.... Read more...
Vets, pets, and (online) pills
Tuesday, 10 March 2009 When I opened my mail last week, I found a newsletter from my vet, the wonderful Dr. Bloom at Presidio Way Vet Hospital. The flyer paid homage to... Read more...
Google dollars from online pharma
Monday, 02 March 2009 There's no question Google and other search engines (think Yahoo) make a lot of money advertising--even in a recession. But Google can't just let... Read more...
10 Tips: How to dodge online drug scams
Friday, 13 February 2009 Legitimate online pharmacies do exist. But how to tell which sites are legitimate and which aren't? It's tough. According to a recent report by... Read more...
Welcome!
Wednesday, 18 March 2009 We are 14 journalists training at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, which is dedicated to training students in investigative... Read more... |
