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DEA Brings In Record Number Of Unused Pills During 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… a record number of unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications during the DEA’s 15th annual National … crisis - simply by disposing of unwanted prescription medications from their medicine cabinets,” said DEA Acting … in their communities by turning in over 43,000 pounds of medications from their homes. DEA thanks the public for …
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Detroit Area Doctors Charged With Illegal Distribution Of Prescription Drugs And Health Care Fraud

… Roxicodone, and Opana ER, outside the course of usual medical practice and for no legitimate purpose. Both … billing Medicare and other health insurance programs for medically unnecessary testing and procedures. …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Owners Of Three Pharmacies, Pharmacists, And Others For Illegal Distribution Of Millions Of Dollars’ Worth Of Oxycodone And Other Painkillers Nine Individuals Allegedly Used New York And New Jersey

… New Jersey to customers in Florida who had no legitimate medical need for the drugs.   All the defendants were … Paul Wiseberg, Lana Wiseberg, and Kalaba, none of whom is a medical professional, purchased and operated pharmacies in … to individuals, mostly in Florida, who had no legitimate medical need for the painkillers. On average, the Pharmacies …
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DEA Announces “360 Strategy” In Manchester To Address Fentanyl, Heroin, Prescription Drugs And Violent Crime

… Brian O’Keefe 508-509-1844 Brian.OKeefe@dea.gov Diversion/Medical Practitioner: 571-362-9171 Division Contacts … and to push for responsible prescribing and use of these medications. Community Outreach by partnering with medical …
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More Than 1,000 Stakeholders From Throughout Minnesota Convene To Define The Problem With Prescription Painkillers And Develop Solutions

… care professionals, attorneys, drug court representatives, medical students, state, tribal and local government staff, … conference brings together experts from the medical, public health and law enforcement fields to look at …
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DEA-Led Operation Pill Nation Targets Rogue Pain Clinics In South Florida

… other controlled substances where there was no legitimate medical purpose and not within the usual course of professional medical practice. The indictment alleges that the defendants … urine tests for a fee to justify the highly addictive pain medications. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of …
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DEA Releases New Rules That Create Convenient But Safe And Secure Prescription Drug Disposal Options

… to safely and responsibly dispose of unused or unwanted medications,” said DEA Administrator Leonhart.  “The new … or kept them in the household medicine cabinet.  Unused medications in homes create a public health and safety …
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New, Dangerous Synthetic Opioid in D.C., Emerging in Tri-State Area

June 01, 2022
… region -- nitazenes.  A drug that was never approved for medical use, nitazines are being sourced from China and … counterfeit pills and falsely marketed as pharmaceutical medication (like Dilaudid "M-8" tablets and oxycodone "M30" … says DEA Intelligence Analyst Maura Gaffney. Only take medications prescribed by your doctor and dispensed by your …
June 01, 2022
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 27

… 5,000 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications during 15 previous events over the past eight … “If we reduce the availability of those unused or expired medications through proper disposal, the fewer drugs there … drug take back program to encourage the safe disposal of medications. National Take Back Day has received robust …
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DEA to hold 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… in a record-high amount of expired, unused prescription medications, with the public turning in close to 500 tons of … D. Christopher Evans. “Bringing unused or expired medications to a local collection site for safe disposal … The public can drop off potentially dangerous prescription medications at collection sites which will adhere to local …
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DEA achieves significant milestone during 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… million pounds of unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications over the course of 16 successful DEA National … disposed of more than 900,000 pounds of prescription medications collected at nearly 6,000 sites across the … and overdose deaths plaguing this country due to opioid medications. Complete results for DEA’s fall Take Back Day …
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DEA Hopes To Remove A Third Of A Million Pounds Of Expired Prescription Drugs From Circulation On Its Sixth Take-Back Day April 27

… more than 1,000 tons of expired, unwanted prescription medications at previous events over the past three years, … addiction, overdose and even death.” Unused medications in homes create a public health and safety … Act to allow an “ultimate user” of controlled substance medications to dispose of them by delivering them to …
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Port Arthur Man Sentenced to Over 10 Years in Federal Prison for Trafficking Methamphetamine

… information that Williams was distributing synthetic marijuana and methamphetamine in the Eastern District of …
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Repeat Offender Sentenced to Over 21 Years in Federal Prison for Meth Trafficking with a Firearm

… of crystal methamphetamine, approximately 23.02 grams of marijuana, a digital scale, and one 9mm handgun loaded with …
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Drug Traffickers Sentenced to Federal Prison for Conspiring to Distribute Meth

… vehicle revealed that there was a package with an odor of marijuana emitting from it. A search warrant was obtained …
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Monterey County Man who Sold Fentanyl-Laced Pills Resulting in Overdose Death of a Minor Sentenced to More Than Eight Years in Prison

… “blues”), cocaine, Ecstasy/MDMA, Hydrocodone/Norco tablets, marijuana, and Alprazolam/Xanax tablets.  On March 3, 2022, …
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Illegal Immigrant Sentenced for Reentering the United States

… well as convictions for Theft of Property and Possession of Marijuana. At sentencing, Chief Judge Beaverstock imposed a …
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Federal Indictment Charges 19 in Alleged Conspiracy to Traffic Methamphetamine

Federal Indictment Charges 19 in Alleged Conspiracy to Traffic Methamphetamine June 10, 2021 Los Angeles Contact Info Contact Us (213) 621-6700 (571) 387-5045 Rosa Valle-Lopez Recruiter Name SA K. Vo 571-387-6615 LOSANGELESSPECIALAGENTRECRUITER@dea.gov …
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Two Sentenced for Distributing Fentanyl Resulting in Death

… which is approximately 10,000 usage units, 13 pounds of marijuana, digital scales, a pill press, a kilogram press …
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Jury Convicts Mexican National of $4.7 Million Meth, Heroin Conspiracy

… methamphetamine, 5.5 kilograms of heroin, 2.6 kilograms of marijuana, and at least eight firearms, two of which were …
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Kansas City Man Sentenced for $1 Million Meth Conspiracy Near Elementary School

… at Eubanks’s residence. Officers seized methamphetamine, marijuana, a Ruger .380-caliber pistol, a box of ammunition, …
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Four Defendants Plead Guilty to Meth Conspiracy Near Elementary School

… at Eubanks’s residence. Officers seized methamphetamine, marijuana, a Ruger .380-caliber pistol, a box of ammunition, …
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Mexican National Sentenced to 12 Years for Conspiracy to Distribute More Than 2,600 Kilos of Cocaine

… found $111,995 that he admitted was illicit drug proceeds, marijuana, a drug ledger, and a loaded XD 9mm semi-automatic …
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Two West Plains Men Sentenced for Meth Conspiracy

… pure methamphetamine. Officers also found several bags of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and surveillance equipment …
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Top Lieutenant and Head of Security for Rafael Caro Quintero Extradited from Mexico to Face Narcotics Trafficking and Firearms Charges

… from February 2015 through June 2018 and an international marijuana distribution conspiracy from January 1980 through …
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Two Bronx Men Charged with 2014 Harlem Murder

… in connection with a conspiracy to distribute heroin and marijuana. Laureano, 33, and Ben-Jochannan, 28, both of the …
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Lockport man convicted by a federal jury of narcotics conspiracy tied to the Sinaloa Cartel going to prison for 25 years

… over 5,000 pounds of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and marijuana in the Western New York area. Approximately …
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Member of Bronx gang pleads guilty to ordering 2009 murder

… up to and including 2011 and whose members sold cocaine and marijuana primarily in and around Creston Avenue in the …
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12 members and associates of the CBL/BFL gang indicted

… including heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, and other controlled substances. The gang used …
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Second-in-Command of Drug Distribution Organization Tied to Aryan Prison Gang Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

… quantities of fentanyl powder, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, $338,000 of suspected drug proceeds, and 48 …