An American newspaper found fentanyl tablets sold in pharmacies in Tijuana and Los Cabos.

The crisis facing the United States over fentanyl and methamphetamine use is getting worse every day, and it is now present in drugs across the border as an investigation by the Los Angeles Times found that pharmacies in Tijuana and Los Cabos are selling counterfeit medicines.

Article signed by journalists Keri Blakinger and Connor Sheets, shows that these counterfeit medicines are freely available in two Mexican cities, despite the fact that in the United States they require a doctor’s prescription to dispense them. In addition, they indicate that As tourist destinations, many US citizens buy their medicines from these places..

Oxycodone, Adderall and hydrocodone are some of the drugs that have tested positive for fentanyl and methamphetamine. The journalists took the test strips with them to test the pills themselves and found that, of 17 products tested, 71% tested positive for drugs mentioned earlier.

The study was backed by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), who warn of the practice’s dangers because they don’t know if any of the people have died from an overdose or harm caused to their health by consumption. the indicated preparations of the tablet.

Although they indicate that they do not believe that pharmacists are aware of this practice, since it is done through intermediaries in order to obtain medicine. even, Drug cartels are believed to be behind the sale of counterfeit drugs..

The journalists also said that many of the pharmacies they saw during their visit had signs offering products in English for foreign tourists.

For his part, one of the UCLA researchers said that given the paucity of data on deaths in Mexico, detecting overdose deaths from falsified drugs could be difficult, meaning cartels would have little reason to stop the pill trade. “If it’s profitable and there’s not much use, they’ll keep doing it”he concluded.