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DEA Hosts 25th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… their homes.  These medications can be a gateway to addiction, and have helped fuel the opioid epidemic.  According to a report published by the …
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DEA, Dutch Law Enforcement Continue Attack On Dark Web Drug Sales

… visits by (so-called “knock and talks”) to suspected opioid buyers throughout the U.S. and the Netherlands. … web.  Too many deaths have come from facilitators of drug addiction and abuse who utilize the dark web to sell these … abuse. These actions support the DEA 360 strategy against opioids by providing leadership in targeting all levels of …
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Norwalk Doctors Charged With Operating “Pill Mill,” Health Care Fraud And Money Laundering

… oxycodone and hydrocodone, to patients that he knew were addicted or had been arrested for distributing or possessing … widespread abuse of opiates, which is a gateway to heroin addiction and is devastating our communities.  In response to the ongoing opioid epidemic DEA is committed to improve public safety …
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Acting U.S. Attorney And DEA Announces Results Of Ongoing Efforts To Reduce Heroin Trafficking And Abuse In Southwestern Ohio

… reaffirmation of our commitment to continuing to fight the opioid problem in southwestern Ohio through enforcement, … the documentary “Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict.” “A critical component to reducing the opiate and …
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DEA launches WithYouSTL.com website

… needs due to challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and opioid crisis ST. LOUIS – Unintended consequences of social … on individuals with substance use disorders reported by the Addiction Policy Forum June 9, 2020. [Source: … dedicated to spreading awareness of the danger of opioids after their son’s accidental heroin overdose death …
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Waterbury Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Trafficking Firearms

… containing methamphetamine and metonitazene, a synthetic opioid with a potency similar to or greater than fentanyl.  …
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Communities Across the Country Remove Nearly 664,000 Pounds of Unneeded Prescription Medications to Prevent Drug Misuse

… or expired.  These medications can be a gateway to addiction and have helped fuel the opioid epidemic.  “Communities across the country again … of unused medications, we prevented medication misuse and opioid addiction from ever starting.” DEA continues to …
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DEA In Kentucky With Law Enforcement And Community Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday

… asked. “Disposing of leftover painkillers or other addictive medicines in the house is one of the best ways to … a member of your family from becoming a victim of the opioid epidemic,” said DEA Acting Administrator Robert W. Patterson. “More people start down the path of addiction through the misuse of opioid prescription drugs …
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Dirty Doctor Pleads Guilty To Writing Illegal Opioid Prescriptions For Patients

… Dirty Doctor Pleads Guilty To Writing Illegal Opioid Prescriptions For Patients November 30, 2016 San …
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Alabama doctor charged with additional counts of prescribing controlled substances

… hyperactivity disorders, Suboxone, a drug used to treat opioid addiction, and oxycodone, an opioid. The indictment … involved delegating responsibility for seeing patients with opioid addictions to staff such as his x-ray technician and …
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Anchorage nurse practitioner and Soldotna doctor arrested on separate federal narcotics charges

… allege that they illegally distributed large amounts of opioids and other powerful narcotics by writing … Nurse Practitioner specializing in pain management and addiction treatment. Spayd was arrested pursuant to a …
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DEA Seattle Field Division Gears Up for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… 374-3444 Yakima - (509) 454-4407 Event aims to prevent addiction and reduce drug poisoning deaths SEATTLE, Wash. – … homes as a first step in preventing medication misuse and opioid addiction from ever starting.” Opioid misuse remains …
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South Texas Woman Sentenced In Opioid Prescription Drug Distribution Conspiracy

… South Texas Woman Sentenced In Opioid Prescription Drug Distribution Conspiracy June 05, …
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DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Awareness Day, April 29

… its fight against the deadly threat of synthetic opioids with the launch of its Fentanyl Free America … of the extreme threat of fentanyl: Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is approximately 50 times more potent than …
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On National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day, DEA Encourages Communities to Continue Education Efforts

… to increase awareness of fentanyl.  Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is approximately 50 times more potent than … than morphine. It is inexpensive, widely available, highly addictive and comes in a variety of colors, shapes and forms … mixing fentanyl with other illicit drugs to drive addiction and create repeat business. Many victims of …
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Two Dallas Women Sentenced In Opioid Prescription Drug Distribution Conspiracy

… Two Dallas Women Sentenced In Opioid Prescription Drug Distribution Conspiracy April 24, …
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Former Bordentown physician charged with narcotics distribution and fraud

… physician of illegally prescribing thousands of highly addictive opioid pills out of his Bordentown Township practice while … family practice for nearly 1,400,000 total doses of opioids, including oxycodone (OxyContin, Percocet, …
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Fourteen members of a Washington Heights drug trafficking organization charged with distributing heroin

… these defendants operated a distribution network of highly addictive and dangerous drugs, which has been plaguing a … Heights of alleged criminals that continue to fuel the opioid epidemic. Opioid addiction touches families and communities across our …
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Fourteen Indicted In Large-Scale Heroin Trafficking Ring

… agencies are successfully working together to combat the opioid crisis,” said Hampden County District Attorney … that we will hold accountable those who seek to profit from addiction by selling and trafficking drugs on our streets … and other New England states.  Heroin is highly addictive, and users can quickly develop a tolerance, …
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DEA hosts industry association conference as part of continued collaboration on prescription drug abuse

… prescription drug misuse and find solutions to our nation’s opioid epidemic,” Assistant Administrator Martin said. “We … with important medication, while lowering drug diversion, addiction, crime, and overdoses which we have become all too … lives to drug overdose last year, and many of them were opioid-related—heroin, fentanyl, fentanyl analogues, and …
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DEA Issues Public Safety Alert on Sharp Increase in Fake Prescription Pills Containing Fentanyl and Meth

… pills that contain these dangerous and extremely addictive drugs are more lethal and more accessible than … drug networks and are made to look like real prescription opioid medications such as oxycodone (Oxycontin®, … JTT etc Synthetic drugs Fentanyl Methamphetamine Oxycodone Opioids Amphetamines Synthetic Opioids On On …
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Leader Of Major Heroin Trafficking Ring Operating Out Of Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights Sentenced To 20 Years In Federal Prison

… face the same fate as Bustamante-Conchas.” “New Mexico’s opioid addiction and overdose death rates have been at or near the …
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Civil Complaint Filed Against Islip Terrace Doctor For Issuing Prescriptions Without Legitimate Medical Need

… for continued prescriptions and/or increased amounts of opioids, including oxycodone. Oxycodone is a scheduled … doctor’s professional practice. It is a powerful and highly addictive drug and is increasingly abused because of its … oxycodone throughout Long Island communities enabling opioid addiction.” “Medical professionals who hand out …
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Riverhead Physician Assistant Arrested For Conspiracy To Illegally Prescribe Oxycodone

… with conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription pain medication. Also this morning, a … Agent in Charge James J. Hunt stated, “People who are addicted to opioid painkillers are forty times more likely to be …
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Creve Coeur Chiropractor Sentenced to 100 Months in Prison

… (HHS OIG). “Even as our nation continues to address the opioid crisis, these fraudsters executed their schemes by pushing opioid medications without a legitimate medical purpose, …
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Leader Of Oxycodone Ring Sentenced To 15 Years’ Imprisonment For His Leadership In Long Island Oxycodone Distribution Ring

… to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription pain killer, on October 9, 2014. The … to investigate and arrest those who illegally distribute opioids in our communities.”  “Cedric Moss masterminded a … and dangerous prescription drug, fueling an increasing addiction crisis on Long Island and elsewhere. Today’s …
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Communities Across the Country Remove Nearly 664,000 Pounds of Unneeded Prescription Medications to Prevent Drug Misuse

… or expired.  These medications can be a gateway to addiction, and have helped fuel the opioid epidemic.  “Communities across the country again …
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Brings in nearly 745,000 Pounds of Unneeded Medications

… DEA’s ongoing commitment to turn the tide against the U.S. opioid epidemic. Following last month’s 21st National … or no longer needed—that too often become a gateway to addiction. These efforts align directly with DEA’s priority …
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Former physician assistant convicted in kickback scheme

… cancer pain. He often started patients on high doses of the addictive fentanyl spray and rebuffed patients and their … as a warning to those individuals who are fueling the opioid crisis in order to profit and destroy people’s … as deaths from fentanyl soar. Clough prescribed a highly addictive form of fentanyl based on kickback payments not on …
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Owasso doctor guilty of pill-sharing conspiracies

… Court to leading multiple conspiracies to write fraudulent opioid prescriptions in an effort to support his drug habit. … and prosecute anyone who illegally diverts or traffics opioids in our communities. The success of this case is the … due to these overdoses. To find help and resources to fight opioid addiction, visit https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/ . …