Pill press machines are being used to produce counterfeit versions of oxycodone, Xanax and Adderall. People who use them may be unwittingly exposing themselves to highly potent substances.

Lamon said the pill press also can make illicit pills, such as ecstasy. “Any kind of pill they want to counterfeit, you can buy the mold,” the narcotics agents said.

Machines used to make counterfeit pills are reaching the US border in record numbers. US Customs and Border Protection is seizing pill presses at a rate 19 times higher than in 2011. That’s the ...

Pill presses and encapsulating machines were sold through eBay. ... Drug traffickers buy the tools to make fake pills, like pill presses, online,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said.

According to the sheriff's office, the pill press compresses chemicals into a pill that is ejected from the machine. Agents estimate one could make 200 pills per hours with the hand-cranked device.

Two bills seeking to establish regulation and criminal penalties related to illicit pill press machines will get their first hearing in front of the state Legislature this week. On Tuesday, the ...

The RCMP believes this pill press, found in the raid of an opioid lab in B.C., was covered with powdered fentanyl. (RCMP) More than 1,400 people died of illicit drug overdoses in B.C. last year.