PRESS RELEASE

Final Defendant in Nationwide Meth Trafficking Ring Pleads Guilty

June 26, 2024
… organization that brought over 160 pounds of highly addictive meth to New England,” said Jodi Cohen, Special … on the rise, DEA stands committed to keeping this highly addictive drug out of Massachusetts,” said Stephen Belleau, …
June 26, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

May 08, 2023
… 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 …
May 08, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

May 05, 2023
… 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 …
May 05, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Two Former Western Colorado Doctors Indicted For Illegally Prescribing Controlled Substances

August 09, 2011
… that would cause patients to abuse, misuse, and become addicted to the controlled substances. They also allegedly … substances to patients knowing that their patients were addicted to the controlled substances, misusing the …
August 09, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Twenty-Four Indicted In Oxycodone Trafficking And Health Care Fraud Scheme

October 12, 2011
… injected to get an immediate high. This abuse can lead to addiction, overdose, and sometimes death. The nine-count … Miami. “Schemes to steal from taxpayers to pay for highly addictive, highly profitable street drugs , as the …
October 12, 2011
PRESS RELEASE

Federal Investigation Takes Down New Breed Of Pill Mills In Florida

June 27, 2012
… narcotics to doctor shoppers. Many of their “patients” were addicts and abused the prescriptions while others sold the … Management, being “high on drugs” and being “a prescription addict like our patients.” The calls revealed they had no …
June 27, 2012
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Launches Fentanyl Free America Initiative to Combat the Synthetic Drug Crisis

December 03, 2025
… its fight against the deadly threat of synthetic opioids with the launch of Fentanyl Free America,  a … the nation’s deadliest drug crisis. Since 2021, synthetic opioids have claimed nearly 325,000 American lives. The …
December 03, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Launches Fentanyl Free America Initiative to Combat the Synthetic Drug Crisis

December 03, 2025
… its fight against the deadly threat of synthetic opioids with the launch of Fentanyl Free America,  a … the nation’s deadliest drug crisis. Since 2021, synthetic opioids have claimed nearly 325,000 American lives. The …
December 03, 2025
GENERAL INFORMATION

Operation Engage Kansas City

March 28, 2025
… 2021. Around 70% of these deaths were caused by synthetic opioids (non-heroin opioids according to the graph) like illicit fentanyl. … overdose deaths that occurred were related to synthetic opioids like illicit fentanyl (blue). Furthermore, the rate …
March 28, 2025
DOCUMENT

The Illegal Drug Threat in Wisconsin

March 25, 2025
Publication
… Mexican DTOs dominate the wholesale supply of illicit opioids (both fentanyl and heroin), cocaine, …
March 25, 2025
EVENT

New Jersey Field Division to Host Family Summit

June 20, 2024 09:00 am - June 20, 2024 03:00 pm
Family Summit
The DEA New Jersey Field Division will host its Family Summit on Thursday, June 20th, 2024, at Rutgers University - Center for Prevention Science, Cook Student Center, from 9am - 3pm. This free event is open to families who have been impacted by the opioid crisis and those who may...
June 20, 2024 09:00 am - June 20, 2024 03:00 pm
DRUG FACT SHEET

GHB - Gamma-Hydroxybutyric Acid

August 21, 2025
Depressants
Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) is another name for the generic drug sodium oxybate. Xyrem® (which is sodium oxybate) is the trade name of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved prescription medication. Xyrem® is approved as a treatment to improve daytime sleepiness and muscle weakness with narcolepsy (a disorder marked by sudden...
August 21, 2025
DOCUMENT

Drugs of Abuse 2024

December 12, 2024
Publication
… for higher education www.OperationPrevention.com, for opioid curricula Drugs of Abuse 2024 Drugs of Concern Off …
December 12, 2024
DOCUMENT

Drug Slang Code Words

May 01, 2017
Publication
… Designer Drugs Drugs of Concern Hallucinogen Narcotics (Opioids) Steroids On …
May 01, 2017
PRESS RELEASE

Jury Convicts Cocoa Man of Conspiracy to Possess with the Intent to Distribute Fentanyl

December 11, 2020
… agreed to sell heroin that turned out to be the more potent opioid, fentanyl. A confidential informant working for the …
December 11, 2020
LANDING PAGE

International Overdose Awareness Day

August 29, 2025
… Unresponsiveness, Unconsciousness. Death. Depressants and Opioids A depressant is a drug that slows the vital … Barbiturates Drug Factsheet Benzodiazepines Drug Factsheet Opioids, slow the central nervous system to produce a …
August 29, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Revokes Registration for Seattle Nurse Who Wrote Prescriptions for Controlled Substances After His State License Was Suspended

June 24, 2025
… prescriptions for oxycodone/acetaminophen (Schedule II opioid) and buprenorphine (Schedule III opioid). Hansen worked alone at Emerald City Practice, which …
June 24, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

DEA Recognizes 2025 National Fentanyl Awareness Day with Debut of Faces of Fentanyl Online Exhibit

April 25, 2025
… nearly 70% of those deaths were attributed to synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl. Recent provisional data  from … of fentanyl in our communities: Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is approximately 50 times more potent than …
April 25, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

New Orleans-area defendants plead guilty to fraudulent possession and black market distribution of oxycodone

October 22, 2018
… involved in this scheme heartlessly contributed to the opioid epidemic plaguing our society today,” said DEA … pursue those who seek to perpetuate and profit from the opioid crisis in this country and bring them to justice.”  …
October 22, 2018
PRESS RELEASE

High Desert Doctor Arrested on Federal Narcotics Charges

August 16, 2021
… for often-abused controlled substances – including opioid-based medications – during telemedicine sessions with … Seven of the counts allege the illegal distribution of opioids, such as oxycodone, and those charges carry a …
August 16, 2021
PRESS RELEASE

Leader of Lawrence Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to Over 15 Years in Prison

January 27, 2023
… and Massachusetts in particular have been plagued by an opioid epidemic that has taken an alarming number of lives … families and communities. In 2021, 80,816 people died from opioid-related overdoses in the United States — the …
January 27, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Boston Man Pleads Guilt to Drug Trafficking Following Two-Kilogram Cocaine Deal

September 08, 2022
… with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. “Opioids continue to take far too many lives and cause … in our Commonwealth. You will be found and prosecuted.” “Opioid abuse is at epidemic levels in New England,” said …
September 08, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Manchester Man Sentenced To More Than Seven Years In Prison For Drug Trafficking

July 11, 2022
… selling deadly narcotics to a region hit hard by the opioid epidemic. Today’s sentence holds him accountable for … people’s lives.  DEA’s top priority is combatting the opioid epidemic by working with our local, county, state and …
July 11, 2022
PRESS RELEASE

Dark web fentanyl trafficker sentenced to 13 years in federal prison

February 11, 2020
… Melissa Scanlan who recklessly flood our communities with opioids may think they can evade detection in the shadowy … prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.” “Illicit opioid distribution, whether online or through conventional …
February 11, 2020
PRESS RELEASE

Nurse Practitioner Sentenced to 70 Months for Unlawful Drug Distribution

March 01, 2024
… hundreds of unlawful prescriptions, including for the opioids hydrocodone and oxycodone, benzodiazepines … in the civil matter. Diversion Division Drug Trafficking Opioids Off On Press Release Image Layout Landscape …
March 01, 2024
PRESS RELEASE

Fort Salonga Urologist and Wife Charged with Criminal Sale of a Prescription for a Controlled Substance and Falsifying Business Records

December 14, 2023
… of Bravo Reality Series “Below Deck” Cast Members to Obtain Opioids SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. – Suffolk County District … for allegedly prescribing and filling prescriptions for opioids throughout Suffolk County using the names of cast …
December 14, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Former Auburn Physician Pays $135,000 and Forfeits DEA Registration, for Overprescribing Controlled Substances

August 30, 2023
… States $135,000 in civil penalties for overprescribing opioids and other controlled substances in dangerous … instead of his own medical judgment; he prescribed opioids, benzodiazepines, and carisoprodol in a dangerous …
August 30, 2023
PRESS RELEASE

Supervising pharmacist sentenced to prison for diverting millions of dollars in oxycodone pills from a Queens pharmacy

August 30, 2019
… the filling forged prescriptions and the outright sale of opioid pills. In so doing, he knowingly fueled the deadly opioid epidemic.”   An indictment charged Laperla and …
August 30, 2019
PRESS RELEASE

Kalamazoo Career Offender Sentenced To 324 Months For Distribution Of Fentanyl Causing Death

March 05, 2025
… by the victim’s family. She went on to characterize opioids generally as the number one cause of overdose … is “a business that must be snuffed out.” “Every opioid overdose, especially overdose deaths, are tragic, and …
March 05, 2025
PRESS RELEASE

Two Stockton Men Plead Guilty in a Fentanyl and Meth Pill Trafficking Criminal Enterprise

July 31, 2024
… fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin, and U-47700 (a synthetic opioid), and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug … fentanyl, furanyl fentanyl, heroin, and other synthetic opioids that Barnes mixed into them. Barnes also made pills …
July 31, 2024