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DEA’s 13th Drug Take Back Event Yields Huge Results In South Carolina

… events provide an opportunity for Americans to prevent drug addiction and overdose deaths. DEA’s next National …
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DEA’s 13th Drug Take Back Event Yields Huge Results In Tennessee

… events provide an opportunity for Americans to prevent drug addiction and overdose deaths. DEA’s next National …
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DEA Kicks-Off 2017 Red Ribbon Campaign

… fight against the violence of drug crime and the misery of addiction. By gathering together in special events and …
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Civil Penalty Settlement Reached With Baldpate Hospital For Operating An Unregistered Methadone Clinic

… Controlled Substances Act by operating a clinic for heroin addicts who were given methadone, a Schedule II painkiller …
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New Bedford Woman Sentenced To Prison For Operating Drug Stash House

… conduct “contributed” to the “pain and suffering” of drug addicts and their families.  In January 2017, Lopez was …
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Five North Shore Individuals Charged With Oxycodone Distribution

… to distribute and distribution of oxycodone, a highly-addictive controlled substance used to treat severe pain.  …
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Two Brooklyn New York Narcotics Dealers Sentenced For Distributing Heroin And Crack Cocaine In Rutland

… young women” for “body packing” and having young women addicts “take most of the risk” as “human mules.” Judge …
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DEA To Hold 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

… environmental hazards. “Our goal is to reduce the risk of addiction and the 46,000 overdose deaths a year that come …
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Keene Man Sentenced To 30 Months In Prison For Manufacturing Methamphetamine

… will do everything in our power to keep this highly addictive drug off the streets of New Hampshire.  This …
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Members Of Upstate Oxycontin Ring Plead Guilty

… and the remainder would be sold by the conspiracy to addicts.  Clark’s primary job in the conspiracy was to drive …
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Nephews Of Venezuela First Lady Each Sentenced To 18 Years In Prison For Conspiring To Import Cocaine Into The United States

… of people in the United States, contributing to their addictions and overdoses on illegal substances.” According …
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Leader Of Inland Empire-Based Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced To 168 Months

… government lawyers argued that the extreme dangers and addictiveness of heroin were best illustrated by an …
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Muhammad Jaffer Ali Sentenced To 16 Years In Federal Prison For Heading Up Synthetic Marijuana Distribution Ring

… Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.  “These drugs are highly addictive and can cause death, seizures, organ failure, …
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$5 Million Reward Offered For Information Leading To Arrest And/or Conviction Of Rafael Caro-Quintero

… fight against the violence of drug crime and the misery of addiction. By gathering together in special events and …
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Drug Trafficker Sentenced To More Than 8 Years For Selling Heroin That Resulted In Death Of Cape Cod Woman

… including Johnson and Geoffrion. Johnson was an addict who actively distributed heroin on Cape Cod during …
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Fourteen Charged In Bangor Area Bath Salt Distribution Conspiracy

… also charged with possessing firearms while using or being addicted to a controlled substance and carrying firearms …
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Nutritional Supplement Chain Reaches Settlement In Connection With Drug Diversion

… of any chemicals used to manufacture meth, a highly addictive and dangerous illegal drug, is a serious offense …
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Brooklyn, New York Man, Residing In Fair Haven, Sentenced To 29 Months Prison For Heroin And Crack Cocaine Distribution

… that heroin is “ravaging the community” and “enslaving” addicts. Judge Reiss further stated that there needs to be …
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Connecticut Doctor Charged With Illegally Prescribing Oxycodone, Other Controlled Substances

… oxycodone despite awareness that his patients were addicted, had been arrested for possessing and distributing …
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Rutland Man Sentenced To Over Seven Years Imprisonment For Federal Conviction For Heroin And Crack Cocaine Distribution

… criminal record and also found that he “preyed” on drug addicts to do his work for him and that he had missed many …
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New York Man Imprisoned 69 Months For Heroin Trafficking

… sold the heroin in Rutland primarily through several heroin-addicted local residents, including Alan H. Willis, II, 42, …
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Former Marlborough Resident Sentenced To 5 Years In Federal Prison For Robbing 5 Connecticut Pharmacies

… has admitted that he used most of the pills to fuel his own addiction to pain medication and sold the rest.  He has been …
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Former Health Care Center Nursing Supervisor Pleads Guilty To Selling Fentanyl And Other Pain Killers

… position as the head of a nursing program to obtain highly addictive drugs, and then distribute them illegally. Let all …
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Bronx Man Sentenced To Thirty Years In Federal Prison

… said United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.  “Use of addictive drugs like crack cocaine is devastating.  My …
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Anesthesiologist Sentenced To Five Years In Prison For Unlawfully Distributing Oxycodone

… sold the pills were reselling them to others, feeding drug addiction in the community.  Le’s Everett clinic was the …
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Wasilla Man Sentenced To 85 Months In Prison For Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy

… Gwaltney’s offense and the dangers of both drugs and drug addiction. Gwaltney’s co-defendant, Baretta Faatafuga, was …
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Former Mexican Mayor Gets 21 Years In Prison For Drug Trafficking

… the investigation.  “Arturo Reyes Trujillo preyed upon the addiction of American citizens to enrich himself and his …
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Anchorage Woman Sentenced To Eight Years In Prison For Participation In Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy

… contributed to the current nationwide crisis of heroin addiction. The investigation was conducted by the Drug …
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Meth And Cocaine Dealer From East St. Louis Sentenced To 189 Months In Federal Prison

… from the ravages of methamphetamine trafficking and addiction,” Special Agent in Charge James Shroba said. “With …
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Omaha DEA Taskforce Honored By Midwest HIDTA For Investigative Effort

… additional prescriptions for huge amounts of powerful, addictive prescription narcotic painkillers. While the case …