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In 2018, the family of a man killed by a fentanyl pill from a Mexican pharmacy called on U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and then-Sen. Kamala Harris to act. Little has been done in the intervening years.
Between the time U.S. officials knew about counterfeit meds at Mexican pharmacies and the time they posted a warning about the threat, Americans died.
Keri Blakinger and Brennon Dixson have joined the Los Angeles Times’ California reporting staff. Blakinger covers the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Brennon Dixson covers Black communities in Southern California.
An alert by the U.S. State Department urges American travelers to "exercise caution" when purchasing drugs from pharmacies in Mexico.
Congressional lawmakers have asked the State Department to warn Americans that some Mexican pharmacies are selling counterfeit pills tainted with fentanyl.