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• E-cigarettes Remain a Pervasive Problem for Youth

  

  By David Khalaf

  on June 19, 2018

  Tobacco use among youth in the US is down, but e-cigarettes still pose the greatest challenge to reducing nicotine consumption among middle and high schoolers. These are the findings of the 2017 National Youth Tobacco Survey, released this month by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Food and Drug Administration…

• Do You Know How to Spot SARMs?

  

  By LegitScript Folks

  on June 06, 2018

  In April, the US Senate introduced the SARMs Control Act of 2018, which would empower the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to regulate selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) as an extension of the Designer Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 2014. Few people understand what SARMs are, and even fewer know how to spot them. This becomes…

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  FDA Warning Letters for Kratom Merchants Could Mean Steep Fines for Payment Processors

  

  By David Khalaf

  on May 30, 2018

  The US Food and Drug Administration recently issued warning letters to three businesses marketing and distributing kratom for making unproven claims about their products on their websites and social media, including the claim it can help in the treatment of opioid addiction and withdrawal. These claims make the products unapproved new drugs sold in violation…

• How Does the Partial Rollback of Dodd-Frank Affect Payment Facilitators and UDAAP?

  

  By David Khalaf

  on May 24, 2018

  The US House of Representatives voted this week to repeal parts of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the 2010 legislation that brought significant changes to financial regulation in the United States after the Great Recession. Because Dodd-Frank led to the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), payment facilitators and…

• Apetamin: An Unapproved Drug Masquerading as a Vitamin Syrup for Weight Gain

  

  By LegitScript Folks

  on May 10, 2018

  A search of “Apetamin” online yields pages of results of websites selling brown bottles with bright orange labels. Many search results include social media accounts showing full-body selfies of women who attribute their curves to this “weight gain syrup.” But Apetamin is not a harmless vitamin supplement as payment facilitators might think – it’s a…