PRESS RELEASE

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Postponed

… pounds of expired, unused, and unwanted prescription medications.  DEA will resume this important public service …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Working To Avoid U.S. Drug Shortages

… have access to necessary hospital-administered pain medications. These include certain injectable products that …
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Every Day is Take Back Day

December 12, 2025
… Prevention. You can drop off your old, unneeded, or unused medications at one of the 16,500 pharmacies, hospitals, and …
December 12, 2025
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Diversion Control Division

October 30, 2025
… an adequate and uninterrupted supply for legitimate medical, commercial, and scientific needs. Program …
October 30, 2025
GENERAL INFORMATION

Protecting the U.S. Homeland: Fighting the Flow from the Southwest Border

January 23, 2025
… into thinking that they are real, diverted prescription medications. In reality, these pills are not made by …
January 23, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Releases 2017 Drugs Of Abuse Resource Guide

… this comprehensive guide is intended as a tool not just for medical practitioners and law enforcement officials, but …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Brings In Record Amount Of Unused Prescription Drugs On National Prescription Take Back Day

… and clinics have begun continuous collection of these medications. To visit a collection site between Take Back …
PRESS RELEASE

China Announces Scheduling Controls Of New Psychoactive Substances/fentanyl-class Substances

… U-47700 a synthetic opioid, also known as “pink,” has no medical use and was emergency (Scheduled I) in the United …
PRESS RELEASE

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Emergency Schedules All Illicit Fentanyls In An Effort To Reduce Overdose Deaths

… I-the category for substances with no currently accepted medical use-for two years, with the possibility of a …
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DEA’S Prescription Drug Take-Back Effort-- A Big Success

… out of five new heroin users starting with prescription medications, I know our take-back program makes a real …
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DEA Collects Record-Setting Amount Of Meds At Latest National Rx Take-Back Day

… Chuck Rosenberg.  “Unwanted, expired or unused prescription medications are often an unintended catalyst for addiction.  …
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Second Spokane Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Running a Commercial Pill Press Operation in the Hillyard Area

… of methamphetamine, along with heroin, cocaine, MDMA, and marijuana. They each also armed with multiple loaded …
PRESS RELEASE

Two Members of Mexico Connected Drug Trafficking Group Sentenced to Prison

… pills, 15 kilograms of cocaine, and three pounds of marijuana. Cortes was sentenced to four years of supervised …
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Seventeen Charged in Alleged Fentanyl, Cocaine Distribution Ring in Athens

… 5.14 ounces of crack cocaine; 2.4 pounds of marijuana; 128 controlled pharmaceuticals; and $63,532 in …
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State and federal authorities dismantle major Philadelphia gun trafficking ring that sold guns and methamphetamine in Camden

… ounces of methamphetamine, 60 wax folds of heroin, over 80 marijuana plants, and a small amount of crack cocaine.  The …
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Former St. Louis Area Pediatrician Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Exchanging Prescriptions for Sex Acts

… individuals who filled prescriptions that he wrote, for a medical condition they didn’t have. Spiegel not only hurt … – a pediatrician – deliberately and callously abused his medical position to abuse and exploit his vulnerable …
GENERAL INFORMATION

Pill Press Resources

August 15, 2025
… producing pills that look like legitimate prescription medication — like oxycodone, Xanax, and Adderall — when …
August 15, 2025
STORY

Carfentanil: A Synthetic Opioid Unlike Any Other

May 14, 2025
… is being pressed into pills that resemble prescription medications, leading to unintentional consumption by …
May 14, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Serves Order to Show Cause on Truepill Pharmacy for its Involvement in the Unlawful Dispensing of Prescription Stimulants

… to prescriptions that were not issued for a legitimate medical purpose in the usual course of professional …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’s 17th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day has highest-ever partner participation

… nearly 12 million pounds of unused or expired prescription medications over the course of 17 successful DEA National …
PRESS RELEASE

DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday

… public can dispose of their unused, unwanted prescription medications at one of 4,700 collection sites nationwide, …
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DEA Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

… About Drugs Just Think Twice Domestic Disposing Unused Medications Prevents Drug Thefts, Abuse, Overdoses …
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs October 28

… drugs. Individuals can take pills and other solid forms of medication to one of almost 5,000 collection sites manned by …
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DEA Makes Three More “Fake Pot” Drugs Temporarily Illegal Today

… not been approved by the FDA for human consumption or for medical use.  The long-term physical and psychological …
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DEA Holds Prescription Drug Take-Back Event October 26

… being treated by veterinarians) of controlled substance medications to dispose of them by delivering them to …
PRESS RELEASE

Three More Synthetic Drugs Become Illegal For At Least Two Years

… N -(2-methoxybenzyl)(25B-NBOMe). There is no approved medical use for these particular synthetic drugs, nor has …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

… to take back unused, unwanted and expired prescription medications.  The DEA invites the public to bring their …
PRESS RELEASE

Placer County Man Sentenced to a Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy

… to at least one overdose of a victim who had to be given medical treatment after using drugs purchased from Hubbert. …
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Department Of Justice Announces Significant Tool In Prosecuting Opioid Traffickers In Emergency Scheduling Of All Fentanyls

… to minimize the potential harm of these substances with no medical or industrial use and will facilitate criminal, …
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Massachusetts Man Pleads Guilty To Drug Offenses

… Brian O’Keefe 508-509-1844 Brian.OKeefe@dea.gov Diversion/Medical Practitioner: 571-362-9171 Division Contacts …