While much of our attention is centered around the opioid crisis, meth has been making a comeback across Virginia, playing a large role in overdose death rates, and spreading. Methamphetamine is not just a rural area problem anymore – with international cartels taking over its production, it’s been flooding Virginia...

Just this past week, three people in Arlington, Virginia overdosed on fentanyl-laced drugs – resulting in two deaths and one in critical condition. Like the majority of the overdose deaths recorded this past year, these overdoses involved suspected, counterfeit prescription pills laced with the deadly synthetic opioid, fentanyl. Throughout the...

This past year, we as a nation have been unwaveringly focused on the global pandemic, and understandably so. In the background of all of this coverage, however, another epidemic has been building. An epidemic that has been responsible for an unprecedented number of deaths across D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. An...

DEA’s Acting Administrator Timothy Shea visited Tallahassee, Florida Oct 6, to participate in a law enforcement round table with Florida’s Attorney General, Ashley Moody, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, Lawrence Keefe and the Acting Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Miami Field Division, Keith Weis. The...

In 2005, the United States reached what was thought to be the peak of the methamphetamine epidemic. Thousands of domestic labs dotted the country. Users were overdosing at unthinkable rates and law enforcement agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), were doing their best to keep the synthetic substance off...

In anticipation of round-up number two in 2019, in September 24-28, 2018, the Asheville Post of Duty (POD), along with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the Swain County, Jackson County and Buncombe County Sheriff’s Offices, the Cherokee Indian Police Department, the Asheville Police Department and several other state and...

CHICAGO – A partnership was announced this month among the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Chicago Crime Commission, and Clear Channel Outdoor to highlight a public awareness campaign that addresses the prescription opioid, heroin and fentanyl epidemic plaguing the city of Chicago, our state, and our nation. Provocative and...