Mexico raided drugstores in Los Cabos after Times reporters found pharmacies in the country are selling fake pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine.
Authorities in Mexico raided several Los Cabos drugstores last month and arrested four people as part of an ongoing investigation into pharmacies selling counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl and methamphetamine.Los Angeles Times investigation
In total, authorities confiscated nearly 25,000 pills in the raids. None of them tested positive for fentanyl or methamphetamine, according to Pineda, but came back as other controlled substances that the pharmacies did not have authorization to sell.The raids are important, Pineda said, “because the sale of controlled medicines is inhibited, the health of citizens is protected and the type of medicines sold in pharmacies is controlled.
The raids by law enforcement — including federal police, the attorney general’s office and the Mexican navy — netted a cache of money and boxes of pills.showed clusters of gun-toting, camouflage-clad police wearing balaclavas standing in front of blurred-out drugstores. Drugstores in Mexico have long been known for selling a wide range of medications over the counter, including many that would require a prescription in the U.S. Until recently, drug market experts had generally believed that pills sold in stores — unlike those sold on the street — were at least what the store owners said they were.
Health officials also told the news site in February that they found no records of people dying due to adulterated medicine — though there has been a lack of the kind of postmortem toxicology testing in Mexico that would be needed to make that determination.reported that state health officials visited more than 100 pharmacies in Baja California Sur. In Los Cabos alone, the news site said, officials shut down nine pharmacies for distributing controlled substances.
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