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One Pill Can Kill

July 01, 2026
… Naloxone Naloxone is a medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose. It is an antagonist. This means that it attaches to opioid receptors and reverses and blocks the effects of other opioids. Naloxone can quickly restore normal breathing to a …
July 01, 2026
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Leader of conspiracy that manufactured illegal drugs on an industrial scale sentenced to 20 years in federal prison

… of dangerous illegal drugs, including deadly synthetic opioids, on the streets of Georgia and beyond through the … drugs. “ “The illegal manufacture and distribution of opioids can result in overdoses and deaths, fueling the …
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DEA Proposes Reduction To Amount Of Controlled Substances To Be Manufactured In 2018

… has proposed to reduce more commonly prescribed schedule II opioid painkillers, including oxycodone, hydrocodone, … codeine, meperidine and fentanyl.  Demand for these opioid medicines has dropped, according to sales data … which is good, and that has prompted a decrease in opioid prescriptions.” The Proposed Aggregate Production …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… huge amounts of fentanyl and methamphetamine, which drives addiction and violence and kills Americans.  It also shows … communities with fentanyl and methamphetamine, drive addiction, fuel violence, and kill Americans,” said …
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DEA issues warning over counterfeit prescription pills from Mexico

… pills containing fentanyl, a dangerous synthetic opioid that is lethal in minute doses, for distribution … potentially lethal doses of fentanyl. “Capitalizing on the opioid epidemic and prescription drug abuse in the United … each year.” Fentanyl and other highly potent synthetic opioids remain the primary driver behind the ongoing opioid …
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Columbia Man Admits To Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone

… clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers.  Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent … commented, “Pain clinics prey on so-called patients who are addicted to opiates. Some of the doctors who dispense these … worked to procure and distribute Oxycodone pills to addicts and distributors and directed the clinic’s doctor to …
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Two ‘Pill Mill’ Owners Sentenced

… clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers.  Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent … commented, “Pain clinics prey on so-called patients who are addicted to opiates. Some of the doctors who dispense these … worked to procure and distribute Oxycodone pills to addicts and distributors and directed the clinic’s doctor to …
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Justice Department files lawsuit against Creve Coeur pharmacist for Controlled Substances Act violations

… to heightened FDA restrictions and indicated only for opioid-tolerant patients experiencing breakthrough pain due … who pleaded guilty to illegally distributing prescription opioids in 2018, including to women with whom he had lived …
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Physician Assistant sentenced to 10 years in prison

… asked Lague to double his prescriptions for powerful opioids so that the patient could sell the drugs.  Lague not … at trial showed that, among physicians who prescribed opioids to 50 or more MediCare patients, Lague was the …
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Gulf Coast health care fraud strike force expanded to include Eastern District of Texas

… strike force will focus on health care fraud and illegal opioid prescriptions and distribution BEAUMONT, Texas - Drug … and cases involving illegal prescribing and distribution of opioids and other dangerous narcotics. In September, Acting …
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Richmond Felon Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Latest Firearms Conviction

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Darknet Drug Vendor Pleads Guilty to Distributing Illicit Prescription Drugs

… Georgia, used the moniker “Pillpusher” to sell prescription opioids and other scheduled narcotics on a Darknet market. …
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New Orleans-area Woman Pleads Guilty To Scheme To Possess Oxycodone By Fraud And To Possess With Intent To Distribute Oxycodone On The Black Market

… template to create fraudulent prescriptions for opioids and then used those prescriptions to distribute … ongoing, multifaceted approach to combating the opioid epidemic.” “Danielle Lesslie and her co-conspirators …
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DEA Delivers Major Blows to Drug Cartels, Advancing a Fentanyl Free America in 2026

… and communities are protected from the scourge of synthetic opioids. Visit  DEA.gov/fentanylfree and get involved. Drug …
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Medical Director of Baltimore County Pain Management Clinic Sentenced for Conspiracy to Distribute and Dispense Oxycodone

… were often prescribed high doses of oxycodone, and other opioid medications.  Some patients were issued prescriptions for opioids after routinely providing aberrant urine toxicology …
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DEA Releases 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment

… Control and Prevention (CDC). Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are responsible for approximately 70% of lives lost, … The advent of fentanyl mixtures to include other synthetic opioids, such as nitazenes, or the veterinary sedative …
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DEA Releases 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment Report

… - (412) 777-6940 Scranton - (570) 496-1020 Prescription opioid abuse poses deadly threat PHILADELPHIA - Special … report underscores the scope and magnitude of the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States,” said Acting … prescription (CPDs), fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, and heroin - reaching epidemic levels and impacting …
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DEA Announces 5,456 drug-related overdose deaths in Pennsylvania in 2017

… Field Division will be releasing a report entitled The Opioid Threat in Pennsylvania next month. This report was … Pharmacy’s Program Evaluation Research Unit, Pennsylvania Opioid Overdose Reduction Technical Assistance Center and …
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Fentanyl

April 21, 2026
Fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use as an analgesic (pain relief) and anesthetic. It is approximately 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin as an analgesic.
April 21, 2026
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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 … The opioid threat (controlled prescription drugs, synthetic opioids, and heroin) continues at ever-increasing epidemic …
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2017 National Drug Threat Assessment

October 01, 2017
… drug landscape in the United States has shifted, with the opioid threat (controlled prescription drugs, synthetic opioids, and heroin) reaching epidemic levels, impacting …
October 01, 2017
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Munster doctor sentenced

… - (608) 210-4300 Milwaukee - (414) 336-7300 For dispensing opioids outside the scope of professional practice and not … schedule II, III, IV and V controlled substances, including opioids. Between September 2017 and December 2017, the Drug …
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Staten Island Woman Sentenced To 12 Years’ Imprisonment For Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone

… - (914) 682-6256 Carolyn Richardson Obtained Thousands of Opioid Pills Using Fraudulent Prescriptions and False … of Schedule II controlled substances, particularly opioids such as oxycodone, without a medical license. …
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Kanawha County Man Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl Crime

… oxycodone pills that actually contained fentanyl or other opioids. According to court documents and statements made in … the pills contained protonitazene, an emergent synthetic opioid that is equally if not more potent than fentanyl. On …
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Major fentanyl and heroin mill dismantled in Harrison, N.J.

… in an ongoing investigation by the New Jersey State Police Opioid Enforcement Task Force and the Division of Criminal …   The New Jersey State Police recently established the Opioid Enforcement Task Force, designed to strategically … sources as choke points in the supply line of these deadly opioids. This case is an early and tremendous victory for …
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District Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison For Distributing Fentanyl That Killed Two People

… acknowledged to the Court that he caused at least 13 opioid overdoses, two of which resulted in deaths, in … MPD officers responded to at least 13 fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses located near the area of First and O … Task Forces/Task Force Officers Cocaine Fentanyl Synthetic Opioids On On Press Release Image Layout Landscape …
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DEA Launches Project Wave Breaker to Stop Flood of Deadly Fentanyl

… that DEA is committed to combatting the flood of deadly opioids, including fentanyl, into our communities,” said DEA … Wave Breaker are credited with 85 percent of all synthetic opioids seized by the DEA in 2020.  They include: Phoenix, …
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DEA Washington Launches New Conference Series to Work with Healthcare Professionals & Help End the Overdose Crisis

… targeted solutions to the problem of diverted and misused opioids and other prescription drugs has arrived, and we …
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DEA Announces 5,456 Drug-Related Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania in 2017

… will be releasing a report entitled The Opioid Threat in Pennsylvania next month. This report was … Pharmacy’s Program Evaluation Research Unit, Pennsylvania Opioid Overdose Reduction Technical Assistance Center (TAC) …
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New Jersey Doctor Indicted On Charges He Sold Oxycodone Prescriptions To Patients With No Legitimate Need For The Drug

… of Oxycodone to patients, including those he knew to be addicts and drug dealers. Dr. Byung Kang, 77, of Little … allegedly revealed that he knew many of those patients were addicted to oxycodone or were reselling the pills.  Kang is … painkiller - which has been the gateway to so much opiate addiction, misery and death - Dr. Kang allegedly caused the …