Fake Pills: A Fatal Fraud

101 East investigates the multi-billion-dollar trade in counterfeit medicines, which is creating a global health crisis.



Viagra? Valium? Cancer pills? Name your medication and chances are you will find it on the streets of Bangkok.

No prescription required, no questions asked.

The only problem? The drugs you are about to take are most likely fake - and they could prove deadly.

We go undercover to expose the dangerous counterfeit medicines flooding into Asia and sold on the streets, in stores and online to people around the world.

With higher profits than heroin-trafficking and links to organised crime, this illicit trade is putting patients' lives at risk.