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New Orleans Field Division Collects Over 35,000 Pounds On Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

… these Take-Back events have increased awareness of the opioid epidemic and offered the public a safe and anonymous … and the misuse and abuse of these medicines, including the opioid painkillers that accounted for 20,808 drug …
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DEA’s 11th Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In Georgia & Nationwide

… a crucial public safety and public health issue. Surveys of opioid drug users show that the majority of them get their … awareness about the dangers of controlled prescription opioids and allowed these potentially dangerous substances …
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DEA’s 11th Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In North Carolina & Nationwide

… a crucial public safety and public health issue. Surveys of opioid drug users show that the majority of them get their … awareness about the dangers of controlled prescription opioids and allowed these potentially dangerous substances …
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DEA’s 11th Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In South Carolina & Nationwide

… a crucial public safety and public health issue. Surveys of opioid drug users show that the majority of them get their … awareness about the dangers of controlled prescription opioids and allowed these potentially dangerous substances …
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DEA’s 11th Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In Tennessee & Nationwide

… a crucial public safety and public health issue. Surveys of opioid drug users show that the majority of them get their … awareness about the dangers of controlled prescription opioids and allowed these potentially dangerous substances …
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Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes' Pharmacy settles claims

… “This settlement is an important step toward ensuring that opioids are properly controlled in the CSKT Pharmacy,” said … regulations to prevent diversion of the prescription opioids that are harming our communities.” In addition to …
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DEA New England Field Division collects 40 tons of prescription drugs during the 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… is estimated that 10 percent of the drugs collected are opioid pain killers, which would represent approximately 8,818 pounds of opioids that are out of medicine cabinets and potentially …
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Federal Investigation Takes Down New Breed Of Pill Mills In Florida

… 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 …
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DEA Atlanta Divisional Office & Partners to Hold 16th Prescription Drug Take-Back Day This Saturday

… community partners to stem the tide against prescription opioid abuse.” The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day … Atlanta via Twitter at @DEAATLANTADiv   ###### Synthetic Opioids On …
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DEA Columbia, South Carolina district office & partners to hold 16th prescription Drug Take-Back Day this Saturday

… community partners to stem the tide against prescription opioid abuse.”  The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day … Atlanta via Twitter at @DEAATLANTADiv   ###### Synthetic Opioids On …
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New Orleans-area defendants plead guilty to fraudulent possession and black market distribution of oxycodone

… 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.”  …
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Three Charged with Trafficking Narcotics in the Naugatuck Valley

… Smith were distributing fentanyl, cocaine, and prescription opioids in Connecticut’s Lower Naugatuck Valley.  Zimmerman …
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DEA’s 2019 National Red Ribbon Rally

October 09, 2019
… also featured youth-developed PSAs that focus on preventing opioid misuse and other drug use, submitted under the …
October 09, 2019
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Southampton Town Councilman Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Illegally Distribute Oxycodone

… for street sales, he was adding fuel to the fire for the opioid problem that is running rampant throughout American … has called an epidemic increase in the abuse of so-called opioid analgesics. To date, the Initiative has brought over …
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Southbridge Man Convicted Of Fentanyl And Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy

… all drug traffickers who prey on the vulnerable and addicted in our communities. We will continue to root out, …
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Twenty-Four Indicted In Oxycodone Trafficking And Health Care Fraud Scheme

… 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 …
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First Lady Melania Trump kicks off National Red Ribbon Week with DEA

… fight against the violence of drug crime and the misery of addiction. “Today’s Red Ribbon rally actively engaged our …
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Two suburban Chicago residents charged with illegally selling narcotics over the internet; law enforcement seizes websites

… drugs for sale on its website (1717chem.com), including the opioids ocfentanil, oxycodone and hydrocodone, the complaint … of Mass Destruction Special Response Team North. “Synthetic opioids killed 20,000 Americans in 2016--more than any other …
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DEA New England Field Division Collects 44 Tons Of Prescription Drugs During The 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

… drugs. It is estimated that 10% of the drugs collected are opioid pain killers which would represent approximately 8,818 pounds of opioids that are out of medicine cabinets and potentially …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 27

… to be misused, and fewer people will be at risk for abuse, addiction, overdose, and even death.” The National …
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Prior Felon Sentenced to Federal Prison for Drug Possession and Possession of Firearms and Ammunition

… our citizens’ health and safety by distributing such addictive, controlled substances. This sentence acknowledges …
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DEA Meets With Pharmaceutical Industry Leaders Today To Discuss Collaboratively Preventing Prescription Drug Misuse And Abuse

… with important prescription medications and reducing the addictions, overdoses, and crimes that too often result from …
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Dept. Of Justice Statement On The Arrest Of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera

… of millions of lives across the globe through drug addiction, violence, and corruption. We salute the …
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Dept. Of Justice Statement On The Arrest Of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera

… of millions of lives across the globe through drug addiction, violence, and corruption. We salute the …
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Spice In The City: New York DEA Leads Huge Attack Against Synthetic Drug Traffickers

… food. These dangerous drugs have caused significant abuse, addiction, overdoses, and emergency room visits. Those who … burdening our hospitals and emergency rooms; fueling addiction; exacerbating mental health problems; and …
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Second Of Cape Cod Brothers Sentenced To 25 Years For Oxycodone Trafficking Scheme

… distribution conspiracy that flooded Cape Cod with highly addictive opiates.  Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in … with federal, state, and local officials to combat opiate addiction in Massachusetts.  Chief Judge Saris found the …
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Two Massachusetts residents sentenced for participating in fentanyl trafficking conspiracy

… as a warning to those traffickers who are fueling the opioid epidemic with deadly drugs in order to profit and … people’s lives.  DEA’s top priority is combatting the opioid epidemic by working with our local, state and federal …
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs October 28

… leading drug epidemic, with more Americans dying from opioid overdose than from all other illicit drugs combined. … Americans to drug overdose - more than 33,000 of those from opioids - the numbers for 2016 are expected to be even …
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Baltimore man found with enough fentanyl to kill 37,500 people in illegal taxi pleads guilty

… Maryland. Under this new initiative, titled the “Synthetic Opioid Surge,” or “SOS,” every arrest involving distribution … can to reduce overdose deaths from this drug and from all opioids.” According to his guilty plea, on Feb. 22, 2019, …