Robert W. Patterson: Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, for a Hearing Entitled Oversight of DEA’s Confidential Source Program

The 2016 National Drug Threat Assessment is a comprehensive strategic assessment of the threat posed to the United States by the trafficking and abuse of illicit and prescription drugs. This report combines federal, state, and local law enforcement reporting; public health data; news reports; and intelligence from other government agencies...

Louis J. Milione: Before the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, for a Hearing on Treating the Opioid Epidemic: The State of Competition in the Markets for Addiction Medicine

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Philadelphia Field Division (PFD) Intelligence Program conducted a comprehensive analysis of illicit drug and diverted pharmaceutical abuse in Pennsylvania (PA), as measured through drug-related overdose death data. According to the most recent reporting by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Pennsylvania ranked eighth...

Chuck Rosenberg: Before The Committee on The Judiciary United States Senate for a Hearing on Oversight of the Drug Enforcement Administration

Chuck Rosenberg: Before the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate for a Hearing Entitled Deadly Synthetic Drugs: The Need to Stay Ahead of the Poison Peddlers

Colorado’s state laws legalizing marijuana do not limit how much marijuana can be grown within a private residence. Further, there is no mechanism at the state-level to document or regulate home grows, even large ones. This has led to a proliferation of large-scale marijuana grow operations in hundreds of homes...

The threat posed by heroin in the United States is serious and has increased since 2007. Heroin is available in larger quantities, used by a larger number of people, and is causing an increasing number of overdose deaths. In 2014, 10,574 Americans died from heroin-related overdoses, more than triple the...

Louis J. Milione: Before The House Judiciary Subcommittee Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations U.S. House of Representatives for a Hearing on Synthetic Drugs

In April 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Philadelphia Field Division (PFD) Intelligence Program conducted an analysis of drug availability and abuse for the State of Delaware. Delaware is home to 935,000 people in three counties: New Castle (including the city of Wilmington), Kent, and Sussex.1 The primary drug threats...