Thank you for the opportunity to speak here today. I appear on behalf of the men and women of DEA's Los Angeles Division—agents, analysts, and support staff who work every day on the front lines of the synthetic drug crisis in one of the most strategically important regions in the...

In March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government authorized the broader use of telemedicine services to allow patients access to needed health services and medications without requiring an in-person visit. While this ease of access to healthcare services expanded availability and convenience individuals like Ruthia He...

Americans today are experiencing the most devastating drug crisis in our nation’s history. This is because one drug—fentanyl—has transformed the criminal landscape. Fentanyl is exceptionally cheap to make, exceptionally easy to disguise, and exceptionally deadly to those who take it. It is the leading cause of death for Americans between...

Americans today are experiencing the most devastating drug crisis in our nation’s history. This is because one drug—illicit fentanyl—has transformed the criminal landscape. Illicit fentanyl is exceptionally cheap to make, exceptionally easy to disguise, and exceptionally deadly to those who take it. It is the leading cause of death for...

DEA has been hard at work to undertake a transformation of its own to meet this moment. DEA has acted with urgency to set a new vision, target the global criminal networks most responsible for the influx of fentanyl into the United States, raise public awareness about how just one...

This case should send a clear message to any foreign leader who corruptly abuses their power to support drug cartels. If you take drug money for your election, if you accept drug cartel bribes, if you traffic deadly drugs, if you protect criminal drug cartels, if you turn the power...

On behalf of the nearly 10,000 men and women of the Drug Enforcement Administration that are serving today across the United States and in nearly 70 countries around the world, I want to welcome the United States Postal Service, and all of you watching via livestream, to DEA Headquarters and...

In 2019 alone, Mexican cartels shipped hundreds of thousands of pounds of methamphetamine in tractor trailers and personal vehicles across our Southwest border and onto our nation’s highways — then headed straight for our cities and towns across America.

Statement by DEA Acting Administrator Timothy Shea - Operation Crystal Shield Press Conference - Phoenix,Arizona September 10, 2020

The Drug Enforcement Administration is adjusting the 2020 aggregate production quotas for certain controlled substances in schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act and the assessment of annual needs for the list I chemicals ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. This increase is in response to the current nationwide COVID-19 public health emergency...