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DEA Houston Field Division Announces the Seizure of Over 7 million Deadly Doses of Fentanyl in 2022

December 28, 2022
… to real prescription medications—including OxyContin®, Percocet®, and Xanax®—but only contain filler and fentanyl …
December 28, 2022
STORY

Spreading the Word:

June 07, 2022
… fake pills that look like real oxycodone, hydrocodone, Percocet, Adderall, Xanax, and other popular drugs. They …
June 07, 2022
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CVS to pay $535,000 for filling invalid prescriptions

April 16, 2019
… in Rhode Island filled thirty-nine prescriptions for Percocet, a Schedule II narcotic, that CVS pharmacists had …
April 16, 2019
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications

November 01, 2021
… identical to legitimate prescriptions such as Oxycontin®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, Adderall®, Xanax® and other medicines. …
November 01, 2021
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

October 19, 2021
… identical to legitimate prescriptions such as Oxycontin®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, Adderall®, Xanax® and other medicines. …
October 19, 2021
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DEA Seizes Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

September 30, 2021
… identical to legitimate prescriptions such as Oxycontin®, Percocet®, Vicodin®, Adderall®, Xanax® and other medicines. …
September 30, 2021
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Pharmacist And Dentist Charged In Narcotics Conspiracy

March 07, 2003
… with conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone (commonly known as Percocet) Hydromorphone (commonly known as Dilaudid), and …
March 07, 2003
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Ohio Doctor Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Illegally Prescribing Painkillers

February 13, 2015
… doses of prescription medications -- including Oxycontin, Percocet, Roxicet, Opana, and others -- from Adolph Harper's …
February 13, 2015
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Orlando Man Sentenced To Over 15 Years For Drug And Firearm Offenses

March 20, 2017
… counterfeit prescription pills, including Xanax and Percocet. After receiving the fentanyl and other controlled …
March 20, 2017
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15 Individuals Charged With Drug Trafficking In The Municipality Of Bayamon, Puerto Rico

September 29, 2015
… heroin, crack, cocaine, marihuana, (commonly known as Percocet), and (commonly known as Xanax) within 1,000 feet …
September 29, 2015
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Federal Charges Announced Against Former Physician For Attempting To Distribute Controlled Pharmaceutical Prescriptions In Exchange For Sex

October 28, 2011
… trade various prescription drugs, such as Adderall, Norco, Percocet, Xanax, Vicodin, Ativan, Ritalin, Darvocet, …
October 28, 2011
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Stamford Man Sentenced To 42 Months In Prison For Distributing Oxycodone

July 19, 2017
… crack cocaine, marijuana and prescription pills, including Percocet and Xanax.  In May 2015, task force agents …
July 19, 2017
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Stamford Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Oxycodone Distribution Charge

April 12, 2017
… crack cocaine, marijuana and prescription pills, including Percocet and Xanax.  In May 2015, task force agents …
April 12, 2017
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Operator Of San Fernando Valley Medical Clinics Sentenced To 14 Years In Federal Prison For Illegally Distributing Oxycodone

May 02, 2013
… Oxycodone is sold under brand names such as Oxycontin, Percocet and Percodan. Davtyan admitted that she had bribed …
May 02, 2013
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Pharmacist Pleads Guilty To Federal Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering Charges

September 05, 2012
… of brand names, including Roxicodone, Roxicet, Oxycontin, Percocet, and Endocet, and in a variety of ways, including …
September 05, 2012
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DEA San Diego/El Cajon PD Arrest 60 In Nine Month Operation

August 18, 2011
… including Vicodin, Oxycontin, Codeine, Xanex, and Percocet, one pound of cocaine, heroin, crack cocaine, and …
August 18, 2011
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Repeat Pharmacy Robber Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison

January 21, 2011
… convinced Shook to take other drugs: Morphine Sulfate, Percocet, and Tylox. Shook was arrested later on December …
January 21, 2011
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Amherst Doctor Sentenced For Obtaining Controlled Substances By Fraud And Health Care Fraud

February 02, 2017
… prescriptions for controlled substances such as Oxycodone, Percocet, and Hydrocodone. The prescriptions were …
February 02, 2017
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Father, Son, Sentenced for Trafficking Cocaine to St. Louis

May 15, 2024
… Dixson Jr. and/or Dixson III sent couriers to Texas to buy kilograms of cocaine from Miguel Angel Gonzalez, who … bought it from Carlos Gonzalez. Dixson Jr. was at one point buying as much as eight to 16 kilograms per week. During the …
May 15, 2024
STORY

DEA Executes Operation Profit Over Patients to Dismantle Health Care Fraud Networks

July 03, 2025
… threats and from those who look to profit off of others’ pain.    As part of the Department of Justice’s National … and later illegally distributed. These profiteers of pain represent only a fraction of the medical community, but …
July 03, 2025
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DEA says: “Time to clean out your medicine cabinets”

October 24, 2018
… 75% of new heroin users began by abusing prescription pain killers, so Take Back Day is a way to remove that … drug overdoses, and heroin, fentanyl, and/or prescription pain killers were responsible for more than 49,000 of those …
October 24, 2018
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Federal Jury Finds Brevard County Doctor Guilty of Illegal Distribution of Oxycodone

June 22, 2018
… 2009, and continuing through 2011, Gayden ran a cash-only pain management clinic in Indialantic, Florida. He charged … to support their opioid addictions, as opposed to managing pain. Expert testimony indicated that Gayden prescribed …
June 22, 2018
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Pill Mill Owner And Doctor Arrested On Charges Of Pill Trafficking And Manslaughter

May 01, 2015
… MIAMI - The owner of a now defunct South Florida pain clinic and a former physician of the clinic are facing … “These men were connected to one of the last rogue pain clinics shut down in Broward County. Through …
May 01, 2015
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Doctor And Clinic Owner Sentenced For Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering Conspiracies

March 19, 2015
… illegally through “pill mill” clinics operated as Omni Pain Management in Metairie, Louisiana, and Omni Pain Management Plus in Slidell, Louisiana, and related …
March 19, 2015
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Leader Of Sarasota Oxycodone Distribution Ring Pleads Guilty

August 01, 2013
… users to unlawfully obtain oxycodone and other prescription pain medications. Benefield coordinated with doctors in the … and gave them prescriptions for oxycodone and other pain medications. Upon their return to Sarasota, the …
August 01, 2013
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Pill Mill Doctor Found Guilty

April 18, 2014
… of 2011, Heromin was the prescribing physician at several pain management clinics in the Tampa Bay and Miami areas, including Gulfshore Pain Management on Habana Avenue, the Tampa Bay Medical …
April 18, 2014
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Physician Surrenders License And Sentenced To Probation

May 22, 2017
… and Yuma areas Pleads Guilty to Falsifying Information at Pain Management Clinics phx052217_fig1.jpg PHOENIX, Ariz. - … revealed that while practicing as a board certified Pain Management Specialist in Phoenix and Tucson, Ratcliffe …
May 22, 2017
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15 Defendants Indicted for Meth and Fentanyl Trafficking

October 09, 2024
… with sham methamphetamine before conducting a controlled delivery of the vehicle the next morning. On Jan. 18, 2024, … Powell’s residence and found, in addition to the controlled delivery from the Dodge Magnum, an AM-15 pistol, .223 … and drug paraphernalia. Following the controlled delivery of the Dodge Magnum, agents obtained a court order …
October 09, 2024
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Two heroin and cocaine trafficking rings in Western New York dismantled

September 27, 2019
… from New York City into the Western New York area for delivery to Heriberto and others. Batista and Martinez then … this a family affair, one such package was destined for delivery to the Buffalo residence of Reinaldo Martinez, Sr. … of Reinaldo Martinez, Jr. The package intended for delivery to the residence of Reinaldo Martinez, Jr.’s father …
September 27, 2019
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Task Force Investigation Results In Federal Drug Charges Against Gang Members And Associates That Operated In The San Gabriel And Antelope Valleys

December 12, 2013
… through a network of suppliers that facilitated the delivery of pure methamphetamine from Mexico through … RELEASE OF NAME PENDING would also arrange for the delivery of drug proceeds to couriers of defendants Cousin … Garcia and an unidentified defendant and arrange for its delivery to Villa and his couriers in Southern California. …
December 12, 2013