Last year more than 750,000 illegal drugs were seized by the HPRA

A woman performs a subcutaneous self-injection with a semaglutide pen in her abdomen

Last year, the Health Products Regulatory Agency (HPRA) seized more than 750,000 illegal medicines. Figures published by the HPRA confirm that a total of 763,027 food units were seized in 2025. Almost 14,000 individual packages were found to be associated with separate purchases by members of the public of illegal or counterfeit drugs, a threefold … Read more