Counterfeit medications can be deadly. Many fake drugs contain too little, too much, or the wrong medicine, and may contain dangerous ingredients such as rat poison.
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Every year, more than 15,000 people die from overdoses of prescription painkillers.
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Counterfeiters are selling fakes of many kinds of drugs, including pills claiming to treat heart disease, arthritis, asthma, AIDS and cancer.
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Many fake drugs are made to look like the real medication—it can be very difficult to tell them apart.
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Three in five teens say prescription pain relievers are easy to get from parent’s medicine cabinets.
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Internet drug outlets often sell dangerous counterfeit drugs, although they claim the drugs are real, and use high tech Web sites that look legitimate.
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More than 50% of people aged 12 and older who abused prescription drugs in 2010 and 2011 got them from friends or family for free.
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One in four teens knows at least one friend or classmate who abuses prescription drugs, as reported in a 2010 national survey.
