Medical tourism to Mexico from the US is huge, with an estimated three million inbound medical travellers in 2020 alone. Medication is cheaper in Mexico than the US, and you can buy most drugs without a prescription.

While most people are able to find the care they desperately need, some are also buying cheap unregulated medicine without knowing it’s fake. The ingredients can be completely unknown and in recent years, the DEA have seized counterfeit medication laced with the deadly opioid fentanyl.

Reporter Tania Rashid explores the murky underworld of black market medication in Mexico & LA.

00:00 Intro
04:16 Testing if drugs are counterfeit
09:41 Inside a clandestine warehouse
14:45 The rise of medical tourism in border towns

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