While a law designed to thwart counterfeit medicines lurches into full force, fake pills keep circulating

As far as Shane Jerominski was concerned, the many bottles of a widely used HIV medicine that he dispensed at his pharmacy nearly two years ago appeared just fine.

That proved not to be true.

A patient later returned a prescription because it contained the wrong pill. As it turns out, someone had tampered with the foil seals, replacing the legitimate pills with counterfeit drugs before resealing the bottles and shipping them to pharmacies across the country.

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