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New PSM Report Alerts Parents to Growing Threat of Counterfeit Children's Medications
A new report from the Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) alerts parents to the growing threats of counterfeit medications – often distributed via Internet drug outlets – and argues that opening the United States drug supply chain to imported prescription drugs will further increase risks to American children. The report, “A Risky Proposition: How Opening the US to Foreign Medicines Will Put American Children at Heightened Risk,” (PDF) explains that more than one-quarter of all children and teens in the US take medications on a regular basis, with many dependent on those drugs for maintaining their health. The report documents several instances of counterfeit children’s medications being imported and distributed into countries around the globe, including England. In some instances the counterfeit drugs were administered to children with fatal consequences. While US regulations minimize the chance that counterfeit drugs are able to enter the US drug supply chain, the report indicates that the growing number of Internet drug outlets makes it “much easier for criminal drug rings to sell their ineffective and harmful products to unsuspecting American parents.” The report describes for parents the dangers of counterfeit medications, the safeguards of the US drug supply chain, and the dangers of ordering drugs from Internet drug outlets.
