Medication Bottles: [Painting Tic-Tacs half blue to look like pills and medication capsules.]

Caption: Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals!

Should you be worried that your Pharmaceuticals are counterfeit? Are your SSRI’s…”SSR-NOTS”?!  The FDA has seen an increase of medication fakes hitting our shores lately.  While most are not psychotropics or common meds for Bipolar, Depression or Anxiety, it does make one wonder and worry (a cause for real concern.)

A worthy topic for discussion: Do you know, for sure, the pills you swallow are not sugar pills? Or worse…a watered-down, weaker version of much-needed medication?!

Lucy: What do you mean you can’t fill my  prescription any more??? I’ve been writing these for years….

Title: It was the blue crayon the finally put the end to Lucy’s prescription fraud.

BUSTED – Formally from the Charlie Brown peanuts gang, Lucy’s appetite for prescription fraud is OVER!  Lucy was always dealing out advice without any training and writing prescription for anyone for the right amount of nickles. Here is a list of 6 things to look for in a fraudulent prescription.