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Orlando Doctor Arrested For Manslaughter

… and illegal sale and distribution of these powerful and addictive pharmaceuticals continues to have a negative … that we will not tolerate anyone illegally selling highly addictive controlled substances in Florida,” said Attorney …
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Freeport Physician Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud And Unlawful Dispensing Charges

… a reputation as a physician who freely prescribed highly addictive controlled substances.  During that time, he … that caused his patients to abuse, misuse, and become addicted to the drugs.  He continued to prescribe these …
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Freeport Physician Sentenced To 30 Years For Illegal Prescribing

… a reputation as a physician who freely prescribed highly addictive controlled substances.  During that time, Ignasiak … combinations that caused his patients to abuse and become addicted to the drugs.  Ignasiak continued to prescribe …
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Physician And Owner Of Atlanta Pain Clinic Sentenced For Illegally Prescribing Painkillers

… standards of his profession and preyed upon individuals addicted to prescription drugs in return for a steady cash … but also fed the cycle of prescription drug abuse and addiction that is devastating our communities.” According to …
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Burlington Man Sentenced To Home Confinement And Supervised Release For Heroin Dealing

… in the Burlington area who sold heroin to support his own addiction to the substance. During the course of his career … the fact that he sold heroin to support his own severe addiction, and his successful efforts at drug treatment. …
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Two Ashland Residents Sentenced To Federal Prison For Distributing Controlled Substance Analogues And Filing False Tax Returns

… by relentless greed.  They relied on creating horrible addictions to maximize their profits.  This sentence should … Friday’s sentencing hearing, witnesses who used and became addicted to synthetic drugs purchased from Morrison and …
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Prosecution Of Methamphetamine Drug Trafficking Organization Results In Lengthy Federal Prison Sentences And Significant Cash Seizures

… organizations determined to make a living on the backs of addiction,” said Daniel R. Salter, Special Agent in Charge … these significant prison sentences.  The methamphetamine addiction that this criminal operation was promoting has …
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Henderson Doctor Pleads Guilty To Unlawful Distribution Of Controlled Substances

… writing prescriptions for oxycodone and other highly addictive prescription painkillers, announced U.S. Attorney … overdose of prescription painkillers, and many more become addicted. “We will continue to identify and prosecute bad …
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Destin Physician Convicted Of Drug Offenses Resulting In Patients’ Deaths

… that caused his patients to abuse, misuse, and become addicted to the drugs. Through the testimony of more than 76 … substances even after he learned that the patients were addicted to the drugs, had suffered overdoses from them, …
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Las Vegas Physician Charged With Unlawfully Prescribing Large Quantities Of Oxycodone

… prescribed large quantities of Oxycodone and other highly addictive prescription drugs, announced Daniel G. Bogden, … prescribed large quantities of oxycodone and other highly addictive prescription drugs without medical necessity and …
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Santa Barbara Doctor Known As ‘Candy Man’ Pleads Guilty To Illegally Writing Prescriptions For Huge Quantities Of Dangerous Narcotics

… for powerful painkillers for “patients” who were drug addicts. Julio Gabriel Diaz, 65, who operated the Family … hands of drug abusers is a dangerous practice that fuels addiction and causes overdoses. Far too many of the illegal …
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7 Years For Multi-Kilo Meth Trafficker

… brings turmoil into the lives of those who are addicted to or live around it,” stated Matthew Barden, … to anyone thinking of polluting our communities with this addictive substance. DEA, along with our law enforcement …
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Philadelphia Doctor Pleads Guilty To Running Pill Mill

… who use their licenses to distribute dangerous drugs to addicts and those who have no actual medical need for the … included undercover purchases of oxycodone, a highly addictive Schedule II Controlled Substance, and it revealed …
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Pearl River Man Sentenced To Ten Years In Prison For The Illegal Distribution Of Oxymorphone Causing The Overdose Death Of Two Young Men

… Bharara stated: “The illegal distribution of highly-addictive and dangerous prescription pills is the … is a powerful painkiller with a high potential for addiction and abuse, and its improper use may lead to …
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Visalia Doctor Sentenced For Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone

… State of California, prescribed large quantities of highly addictive prescription drugs, including oxycodone and … inject them to get an immediate high. The abuse can lead to addiction, overdose, and sometimes death. This case was the …
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Analysis of Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania, 2016

July 01, 2017
… as a result of drug abuse, with thousands more affected by addiction, either personally, or through family, friends, …
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Community Event
April 27, 2019
April 27, 2019

DEA Take Back Day (April 2019)

2:00 AM - 6:00 AM (EDT)
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Find a collection site near you! The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day addresses a crucial public safety and public health issue. According to the 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 6 million Americans misused controlled prescription drugs. The study shows that a majority of abused prescription drugs...
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Community Event
October 27, 2018
October 27, 2018

DEA Take Back Day

2:00 AM - 6:00 AM (EDT)
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Find a collection site near you! The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day addresses a crucial public safety and public health issue. According to the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 6.2 million Americans abused controlled prescription drugs. The study shows that a majority of abused prescription drugs...
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China Announces Scheduling Controls Of New Psychoactive Substances/fentanyl-class Substances

… compounds are a large and deadly portion of the current opioid crisis. The Chinese scheduling actions will help save … substances for government control. U-47700 a synthetic opioid, also known as “pink,” has no medical use and was …
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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Emergency Schedules All Illicit Fentanyls In An Effort To Reduce Overdose Deaths

… alarming increase in overdose deaths linked to synthetic opioids. “DEA is committed to using all of its tools to aggressively fight and address the opioid crisis and growing fentanyl problem plaguing the …
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DEA releases 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment

… over 13 percent – in overdoses from controlled prescription opioids. Many challenges remain, however, including the … As the National Drug Threat Assessment describes, the opioid threat continues at epidemic levels, affecting large …
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Downey Man Arrested on Federal Charges Alleging He Sold Fake Prescription Pills that Caused Fatal Fentanyl Overdose

… female who suffered a fatal overdose from the synthetic opioid, the Justice Department announced today.            … Overdose Justice Task Force, which was created to address opioid-related deaths in the greater Los Angeles area, most of which are caused by the synthetic opioid fentanyl. Under the Overdose Justice program for …
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Fentanyl, Guns Result in 35 Years in Prison

… for 2022 show that 1,577 Missourians fatally overdosed on opioids. This means that one in every 45 deaths in Missouri … be attributed to an opioid overdose, and potent non-heroin opioids such as fentanyl have increasingly taken over as the …
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Fatal overdose in Manhattan leads to arrest of alleged drug dealer in Miami

… us into the underbelly of emo rap and its glorification of opioid use.  Today, a team of DEA agents and NYPD Detectives … becomes a catalyst for raising awareness of the dangers of opioid misuse.  The DEA extends condolences to the victim’s … target and charge drug dealers that profit from the lethal opioid epidemic that is killing so many people.” According …
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DEA Launches First Year of Operation Engage in Richmond, VA

… apply additional resources on our top local drug threats -- opioids and methamphetamine -- in and among Richmond, … GSAD, JTT etc Outreach/Drug Prevention Drug Trafficking Opioids Synthetic Opioids Fentanyl Methamphetamine On On …
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

… across the United States. Illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid found in most of the fake pills that were seized, is … driver of the recent increase in U.S. overdose deaths. “Opioids were responsible for nearly three quarters of the …
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

… across the United States. Illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid found in most of the fake pills that were seized, is … driver of the recent increase in U.S. overdose deaths. “Opioids were responsible for nearly three quarters of the …
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

… across the United States. Illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid found in most of the fake pills that were seized, is … driver of the recent increase in U.S. overdose deaths. “Opioids were responsible for nearly three quarters of the …
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

… across the United States. Illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid found in most of the fake pills that were seized, is … driver of the recent increase in U.S. overdose deaths. “Opioids were responsible for nearly three quarters of the …
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Department of Justice and DEA Announce Seizures of Historic Amounts of Deadly Fentanyl-Laced Fake Pills in Public Safety Surge to Protect U.S. Communities

… across the United States. Illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid found in most of the fake pills that were seized, is … driver of the recent increase in U.S. overdose deaths. “Opioids were responsible for nearly three quarters of the …