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Problematic Product Spotlight: Boner Bears
In the most recent example of consumable products tainted with active pharmaceutical ingredients, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) testing found hidden sildenafil and tadalafil in Boner Bears products. Learn what these tainted treats mean for payment processors, why the packaging is problematic, and how to better identify these violative products. Sexual Enhancement in Disguise Decadent chocolate and wildflower honey: These unassuming confections are the new face of sexual enhancement.
HHS’s Peptide Compounding Policy: What Healthcare Businesses Need to Know
The new enforcement discretion policy released by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) marks a shift in the regulatory landscape for peptide compounding.
More Patients Without Extra Spend: Key Marketing Takeaways from Three Behavioral Health and SUD Experts
Behavioral health and substance use disorder (SUD) providers have more ways to reach patients than ever. The providers growing fastest aren’t always the ones spending the most. They’re the ones showing up in more places. That was the idea behind our recent webinar, Alternative Marketing Channels for Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Providers. Three practitioners shared what’s working for them right now across directories, social media, and alumni networks. Here’s what stood out.
Vouched: Protecting Your Business Series, Episode 1
David (LegitScript): Welcome everyone to our Protecting Your Business series, which features experts from LegitScript and our Compliance Collective partners to help health care, telehealth, addiction treatment operators, and more navigate a successful business beyond certification from increasing conversions and onboarding to filling in compliance gaps that aren't always obvious. Each episode tackles a real operational issue and shows what it takes to manage it.
Vouched: Protecting Your Business Series, Episode #2
David (LegitScript): Welcome everyone to our Protecting Your Business series, which features experts from LegitScript and our compliance collective partners to help health care, telehealth, and addiction treatment operators navigate a successful business beyond certification from increasing conversions and onboarding to filling in compliance gaps that aren't always obvious. Each episode tackles a real operational issue and shows what it takes to manage it.
The Peptide Boom: Why So Many Popular Products Are Still Off-Limits
Peptides are having a moment. Scroll through social media or a wellness clinic's website, and you're likely to come across names like retatrutide, BPC-157, TB-500, Injectable GHK-Cu, MOTs-C, CJC-1295, Ipamorelin, Semax, Selank, Tesamorelin and Cagrilintide, with sellers marketing claims ranging from weight loss to faster injury recovery. Demand is surging in the United States, and so is the number of businesses looking to offer these products.
Protecting Your Business series, Episode 3
David (LegitScript): Hello, everyone, and welcome to our protecting your business series, which features experts from LegitScript and our compliance collective partners to help health care, telehealth, and addiction treatment operators navigate what comes after LegitScript Certification — from accessibility and privacy to advertising rules that keep shifting. Each episode tackles a real operational risk and shows what it takes to manage it.
Protecting Your Business series, Episode 2
David (LegitScript): Welcome everyone to our protecting your business series, which features experts from LegitScript and our Compliance Collective partners to help healthcare, telehealth, and addiction treatment providers navigate what comes after certification — from accessibility and privacy to advertising rules that keep shifting. Each episode tackles a real operational risk and shows what it takes to manage it.
Protecting Your Business series, Episode 1
David (LegitScript): Welcome everyone to our Protecting Your Business series, which features experts from LegitScript and our Compliance Collective partners to help healthcare, telehealth, and addiction treatment providers navigate what comes after certification — from accessibility and privacy to advertising rules that keep shifting. Each episode tackles a real operational risk and shows what it takes to manage it.
Behind the Seal: What the LegitScript Certification Seal Means for You — and How to Verify It’s Real
For years, LegitScript Certification has served a specific function: helping payment processors, acquiring banks, and advertising platforms protect their ecosystems from businesses operating outside applicable laws and regulations. If a healthcare company or substance use disorder treatment organization wanted to advertise on major online platforms or maintain reliable payment processing, Certification was often the first step toward meeting the requirements involved.
How LegitScript Protects Payment Processors From Tobacco Risk
LegitScript has launched two new reporting updates to keep client portfolios safe from merchants offering unauthorized tobacco products and illegal sales to minors. Keep reading to learn how we are helping payment processors navigate key aspects of the ENDS landscape, including pre-market authorization, age verification, merchant category codes, and more. Then, request a copy of our new report on navigating the complex tobacco and vaping market.
Card Networks Are on Notice: What Concerns About the ENDS Market Means for Payment Processors
Which E-Cigarettes Are Legal to Sell in the U.S.? Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, any e-cigarette or vaping product introduced after February 15, 2007, needs premarket authorization from the FDA before it can be lawfully marketed. That authorization comes through the Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) pathway, and it’s a high bar.
Understanding the Risk Landscape in Brazil and Latin America: Key Takeaways
Brazil has embraced digital payments faster than almost anywhere else in the world. That growth is a success story, but it has created an entirely new risk landscape that payments companies and online platforms cannot afford to ignore. That was the throughline of LegitScript’s recent webinar on fraud and compliance trends across Brazil and Latin America. Read the key takeaways, and then watch the webinar on demand. The Fraud Problem in Brazil and Latin America The numbers tell a clear story.
Key Takeaways from the 2026 Recovery.com Marketing Summit
Last week’s Recovery.com Marketing Summit brought together behavioral health marketers, agencies, and operators to reflect on the current state of industry growth tactics. A wide variety of topics, including SEO, AI’s impact, attribution, social media, and outcomes reporting were discussed, but one theme ran underneath nearly every session: Trust is still the deciding factor in how patients choose care, even as the tools for earning it keep changing.
What the July 2026 FDA Advisory Committee Meetings on Compounded Peptides Mean for Healthcare Businesses
The regulatory landscape surrounding compounded peptides continues to evolve. Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) met to evaluate several peptide substances and make recommendations to the FDA regarding whether they should be included on the list of bulk drug substances that may be used by certain pharmacies when compounding medications under Section 503A of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
What Is Telehealth Infrastructure-as-a-Service (TIaaS) — and Does Your Platform Qualify for an Enterprise Referral Partnership?
There’s a category of company that sits at the center of the digital health economy that hasn’t always had a name for itself. These companies build the white-label technology that other healthcare brands run on, providing the clinical infrastructure, the prescription fulfillment network, the EHR integrations, and the patient engagement tools.
What We Took Away from NAATP National 2026
Present-forward thinking is where most organizations live: optimizing current workflows, making incremental improvements, managing day-to-day operations. It's necessary but it's not sufficient. Future-back thinking asks a harder question: What do we want to be in five or ten years, and what do we need to build today to get there? Session after session reinforced the same message.
Certified But Still Getting Disapproved? Key Takeaways From Our Telehealth Advertising Webinar
Becoming LegitScript-certified is a significant milestone — but for telehealth providers, compounding pharmacies, and other healthcare businesses, it’s the beginning of the advertising journey, not the end. Our recent webinar, Best Practices for Advertising in Telehealth & Healthcare Verticals, brought together compliance and digital marketing experts from CareValidate and Multiview to dig into the practical realities of advertising in this space after certification.
Veterinary Businesses Are Going Digital. Here’s What Compliance Means for Advertising.
For most veterinarians or the businesses supporting the veterinary community, advertising wasn’t a major factor of the business model. People chose their vet simply based on location. Whether it was the one veterinary clinic serving a large rural area, the local town vet, or the walkable clinic from the urban apartment, your vet of choice was traditionally predicated by convenience. But times change and so do consumer habits.
Not All Women’s Health Providers Are Created Equal. Here’s How to Tell the Difference.
When you book a Botox appointment, start a GLP-1 weight loss program, or interact with a hormone clinic (either in person or virtually), there's a set of questions you probably don't think to ask. Is the person injecting you licensed to do so in this state? Is the medication you're receiving sourced from a credible supplier? Has this clinic ever had a regulatory action taken against it? Is the pharmacy filling your prescription actually verified to do so? Most women don't ask these questions.
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