Mexico has closed 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts, six months after a research report warned that drug stores were offering foreigners pills they passed off as Oxycodone, Percocet, and Adderall.
FILE - Tourists hang out on the Gaviota Azul beach in Cancun, Mexico, March 2, 2010. A four-day inspection raid targeting drugstores in Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulu resulted in the shuttering of 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts, six months after a report warned that the drug stores were offering foreigners pills they passed off as Oxycodone, Percocet and Adderall without prescriptions, the Navy Department said Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023.
The Navy said the pharmacies usually offered the pills only to tourists, and the drugstores advertised such pills, and even offered home delivery services for them. UCLA said the study, published in January, found that “brick and mortar pharmacies in Northern Mexican tourist towns are selling counterfeit pills containing fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine. These pills are sold mainly to US tourists, and are often passed off as controlled substances such as Oxycodone, Percocet, and Adderall.”
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