{"id":14035,"date":"2019-09-16T08:59:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14035"},"modified":"2019-09-16T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T12:59:07","slug":"purveyors-of-black-market-pharmaceuticals-target-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14035","title":{"rendered":"Purveyors Of Black-Market Pharmaceuticals Target Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By John M. Gionna for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The bootleg medications were smuggled across the border and sold to mostly Latino immigrants in public spaces throughout Los Angeles \u2014 at swap meets, parks, beauty salons and makeshift stands outside mom-and-pop grocery stores.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs were cheap, and the customers \u2014 mostly from Mexico and Central America \u2014 did not need prescriptions to buy them. Some of the products featured brand names and colorful packaging that immigrants knew well from their home countries \u2014 including Ciprofloxacina, a potent antibiotic, and Dolo Nervi Doce \u2014 translated as \u201cPain Nerve 12\u201d \u2014 an injectable B-complex vitamin taken for fatigue.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/purveyors-of-black-market-pharmaceuticals-target-immigrants\/\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By John M. Gionna for Kaiser Health News) The bootleg medications were smuggled across the border and sold to mostly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14036,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions\/14036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}