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Operation Engage Anchorage

March 28, 2025
… reported that approximately 35% were associated with opioid pain relievers and nearly 62% were associated with … preliminary data, deaths in Alaska associated to opioid pain relievers declined approximately 12% from 2019 to 2020.   Opioid pain relievers include prescription drugs such as oxycontin …
March 28, 2025
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Five Defendants, Including Two Doctors, Charged in Connection with Actor Matthew Perry's Fatal Overdose Death Last Year

… or consent, and lied to wholesale ketamine distributors to buy additional vials of liquid ketamine that Chavez intended … from Iwamasa to Sangha’s stash house in North Hollywood to buy vials of ketamine. On October 24, 2023, while waiting …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Seizure Of Additional $28 Million Worth Of Bitcoins Belonging To Ross William Ulbricht, Alleged Owner And Operator Of “Silk Road” Website

… Road,” a hidden website designed to enable its users to buy and sell illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and … unlawful goods and services to well over a hundred thousand buyers, and to launder hundreds of millions of dollars … online criminal marketplace designed to enable its users to buy and sell drugs and other illegal goods and services …
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DEA St. Louis Division joins Kiwanis to "Crush Drugs" in St. Charles County

… least once in their lifetime, they had taken prescription pain medicine without a doctor’s prescription or differently …
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Recovery Resources

March 28, 2025
… and dependence on opioids, such as heroin or prescription pain relievers, at  SAMSHA.gov . Opioid Treatment Program … and dependence on opioids, such as heroin or prescription pain relievers at  Opioid Treatment Program Directory . …
March 28, 2025
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Physician Sentenced after Taking Bribes from Drug Manufacturer

… who were currently suffering from breakthrough cancer pain. Halley accepted bribes from Insys in exchange for … and was not being treated for breakthrough cancer-related pain – two conditions that Medicare required for payment …
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Long Island Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Distribute, Distributing Fentanyl Causing Two Overdose Deaths

… conspiracy and sale of fentanyl disguised as prescription pain pills directly led to the poisoning deaths of two Long … and Trimarchi to sell fentanyl disguised as oxycodone pain pills and sold such pills to Victim-1 and Victim-2. The …
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Rockville Centre doctor indicted for allegedly selling opioid and amphetamine prescriptions

… “Defendant Blatti gave no consideration of an individual’s pain management or addiction history and selfishly for … in 1976, had no specialized training or accreditation in pain management. He maintained an office in a Franklin …
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Doctor convicted on nine counts in connection with oxycodone and fentanyl diversion scheme

… Square, where Lopez, who purported to specialize in pain management, wrote thousands of prescriptions for … Subsys, which was intended to treat breakthrough cancer pain, for which those patients – many of whom did not have …
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Owner and Employees of Alleged Pill Mill Facing Federal Indictment

… jury has indicted the owner and operator of a purported pain management clinic, as well as two nurse practitioners … Holistic Health and Wellness Medical Spa LLP, a purported “pain management” clinic located in Largo, Maryland, which …
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Former Dona Ana County doctor sentenced to 108 months for conviction on unlawful distribution of prescription painkillers and health care fraud charges

… for conviction on unlawful distribution of prescription painkillers and health care fraud charges May 09, 2019 El … with the DEA to prescribe controlled substances, including pain medication.  Jain admitted that for several years he operated a high-volume “pain management” practice in Las Cruces, and frequently …
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Doctor Gets 10 Years For Operating “Pill Mill” In Alabama

… of his unlawful drug dealing by purchasing Schedule II pain medications-specifically hydromorphone and … in Charge Bret Hamilton. “The diversion of prescription pain medication contributes to the widespread abuse of …
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Long Island Doctor Indicted For Causing Oxycodone Overdose Deaths Of Two Patients

… patients through the distribution of the highly addictive pain-killer oxycodone. The superseding indictment also … of a doctor’s office in order to illegally prescribe pain medication for the use of abuse and drug distribution.” …
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Surveillance Leads To Seizure Of $8 Million Worth Of Heroin

… is fueled in part by those that become addicted to diverted pain pills, and it’s the heroin and pain pills sold in the illegal drug market causing the most …
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Staten Island Physician’s Assistant And Two Other Individuals Arrested For Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone Pills

… who abuse our health care system and illegally prescribe pain medication which ultimately is sold throughout our … narcotic-strength opioid used to treat severe and chronic pain conditions. Almost seven million Americans abuse … prescription medications, including opioid painkillers, resulting in more deaths from prescription drug …
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Indictment Charges 15 With Conspiring In International Drug Ring That Used U.S. Mail To Ship Cocaine From California To New Jersey Jamaican Recording Artist Charged As Leader Of Drug Trafficking Network In "Operation Next Day Air"

… drug ring that used the U.S. Mail and other parcel delivery servicesto ship multiple kilograms of cocaine from … shipment of large quantities of cocaine through parcel delivery services to New Jersey for bulk distribution to …
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Opioid Trafficking Organization Dismantled In The Bronx, NY

… defendants thought they could hide behind a call-in drug delivery service they underestimated the reach of the Bronx … both of the Bronx, allegedly ran an on-call cocaine delivery service to customers throughout New York City, …
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Guilty Pleas For Two Mexican Nationals In Conspiracy To Acquire “Stinger” Missile And Other Military-Grade Weapons

… the weapons negotiations began, Diaz-Sosa arranged for the delivery of 4.5 pounds methamphetamine to serve as a down … for the weapons. Emilia Palomino-Robles made that initial delivery on behalf of Diaz-Sosa. For approximately the next …
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Mitchellville Man Sentenced To 33 Years In Prison For Drug Distribution And Money Laundering Conspiracies

… drove a vehicle registered to Ford-Bey to make some of the deliveries. As a result of wire taps on conspirators’ cell … to Ford-Bey in Temple Hills, Maryland. A controlled delivery of the boxes was arranged. On August 17, 2012, law …
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Indiana Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Meth Trafficking

… a pound of methamphetamine during a series of controlled buys. In August 2020, investigators arrested Fowler and …
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Fort Wayne man sentenced to 17 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine

… informant and an undercover agent made several controlled buys of heroin and cocaine from Mr. Jefferson.  Jefferson …
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La Crosse Man Sentenced to 48 months in prison

… methamphetamine from Conner.  During one of the controlled buys, Conner admitted to selling a half pound of …
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South Bend, Indiana man sentenced for conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine

… a pound of methamphetamine. Kinds admitted that he had been buying and selling methamphetamine by the pound, and that he …
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Mexican National sentenced to 9 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Tehama County

… of methamphetamine from Cervantes during three controlled buys. In addition, when law enforcement executed a search …
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Convicted Drug Trafficker Found Guilty

… a confidential informant in Bradenton, for the purpose of buying a half-kilogram of cocaine. During the transaction, …
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Philadelphia Pill Mill Doctor Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison

… pleaded guilty, created phony medical records for his drug-buying customers. In addition to the prison term, U.S. …
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Four Indicted In 30 Lb. Methamphetamine Seizure In Anderson, CA

… on July 10, 2013, a confidential informant arranged to buy 15 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine for $195,000 …
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Ventura County Men Charged With Trafficking Meth In Kern County

… other states. On July 19, 2013, agents had the informant buy one pound of methamphetamine for $7,500 from …
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Clovis Woman Sent To Prison For Mortgage Fraud Scheme

… months in prison for a conspiracy to defraud lenders while buying homes to use to grow marijuana, Drug Enforcement …
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DEA Red Ribbon Rally

February 25, 2022
… which is to decrease substance abuse in our country and the pain suffering and death that it causes. This Administration …
February 25, 2022