SEATTLE - Nationwide Americans did their part to drop off a record number of unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications at close to 6,000 sites across the country on April 28th, 2018. Together with a record-setting amount of local, state and federal partners, DEA collected and destroyed close to one...

SAN FRANCISCO - Northern Californians did their part to drop off unused, unwanted, or expired prescription medications during the DEA’s 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, at more than 150 sites in the region. Together with our local, state, and federal partners DEA collected and destroyed 30,172 (15 tons)...

San Diego & Imperial, CA - Americans nationwide did their part to drop off a record number of unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications during the DEA’s 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, at close to 6,000 sites across the country - to include 41 locations in San Diego...

PHOENIX - The DEA announced the conclusion of its case against Juan Mark Sayegh, 44, of Phoenix, who earlier this week was sentenced in federal court to serve 48 months in prison and ordered to forfeit an estimated $1.7 million in cash and assets. Sayegh was the owner and operator...

PHOENIX - The DEA’s Phoenix Field Division has finished calculating the amount of drugs collected from those agencies who participated in the April 28th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Arizonans turned out in massive numbers and disposed of 12,025.43 pounds, over six tons, of prescription drugs. The total for...

PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in (SAC) Jon Wilson of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Field Division announced today that 42,676 pounds of prescription drugs were collected across Pennsylvania and Delaware by the DEA and its partners during the Prescription Drug Take-Back Day event on Saturday, April 28, 2018. A specific...

NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, announced today that a Manhattan Supreme Court jury returned a guilty verdict against Dr. Rogelio Lucas and his wife Lydia Lucas, who managed her...

NEW YORK - Americans nationwide did their part to drop off a record number of unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications during the DEA’s 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, at close to 6,000 sites across the country. Together with a record-setting amount of local, state and federal partners...

Newark, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in (SAC) of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, announced that New Jersey residents turned in 14,819 pounds or 7.4 tons of expired, unused, and unwanted prescriptions during DEA’s 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 28. Nationally, a...

BOSTON - The final tally is in from the 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on April 28th, 2018. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Field (NEFD) and its partners, over the course of four hours, collected 88,182.07 pounds or 44 tons of expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs at...