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DEA Agents Seize 30,000 Fentanyl Pills

… Oxy Pills March 2017 )   Fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid drug approximately 100 times more potent than …
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DEA’s New York Drug Enforcement Task Force And NJSP Search Of Quiet Neighborhood Home Uncovers Heroin Mill And $6 Million Of Heroin

… up to 600,000 decks, or individual doses of the highly addictive drug to be sold on the streets of New Jersey and …
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Federal Jury Convicts Minnesota Man for Distributing Fentanyl that Caused 11 Overdose Deaths

… remove the threat of drug traffickers pushing this highly addictive substance.” According to the evidence presented at …
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AlphaBay, The Largest Online ‘dark Market,’ Shut Down

… 16, in Portland, Oregon, involving U-47700, a synthetic opioid, revealed that the drugs were purchased on AlphaBay …
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Woman Who Dealt Drugs From Her Lake Stevens Restaurant Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison

… did not suffer from clouded judgement due to drug addiction. Her motivation was money. “Moreover, …
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13.5 Million Lethal Doses Of Fentanyl: California Man Indicted In DEA-Kansas Highway Patrol Investigation

… to protecting our communities from the dangers of potent opioids, like fentanyl. This seizure alone prevented over …
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DEA Pennsylvania And Delaware Holding Fifth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day In September

… Day events as long as they are needed to prevent diversion, addiction, and overdose deaths.”   Americans participating …
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DEA and partners hold National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, 2019

… Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where …
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North Carolina Pharmacy Agrees to Pay $100,000 Fine

… her limited license.” “An essential part of combatting the opioid epidemic is ensuring that pharmacies are held to the …
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Detroit Area Doctor Charged With Illegal Distribution Of Rx Drugs And Health Care Fraud

… lives of many individuals by illegally distributing highly addictive opiate painkillers. Today's arrest of Dr. Soliman …
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DEA Serves A Suspension Order On Walgreens Distribution Center In Jupiter, Florida

… is a Schedule II controlled substance which is highly addictive and known to be highly abused and diverted in the …
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Indictment Charges Eight Members of Alleged D.C. Drug Gang With Conspiracy

… HIDTA OCDETF/Task Force Cocaine Heroin Fentanyl Synthetic Opioids On On Press Release Image Layout Landscape …
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DEA Announces 4,642 Drug Related Deaths In Pennsylvania In 2016

… report indicate the presence of a prescription or illicit opioid was identified in 85 percent of the overdose deaths.  …
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Dark Web Fentanyl Distributor Receives 20-Year Sentence

… in counterfeit pills and its contribution to the on-going opioid epidemic.  After extensive interactions with the …
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Mexican National Found Guilty Of Drug Trafficking And Illegal Reentry

… break its laws by illegally distributing this highly addictive and extremely dangerous drug,” said United States …
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High Level Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Leadership Role in Drug Distribution Conspiracy

… trafficking widened the circles of those touched by the opioid epidemic, spreading meth, heroin and fentanyl in …
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Record collection in the Pacific Northwest of unwanted medications during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… to remove prescription pills from their homes to prevent addiction before it starts. DEA, along with its law …
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DEA Suspends The Registration Of Morris And Dickson Company From Distributing Controlled Substances

… Register. Today, more than four million Americans are addicted to prescription painkillers, including a quarter …
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Chatham County added to Atlanta/Carolinas regional High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area

… boost to law enforcement in combatting deadly drugs such as opioids and methamphetamine,” said U.S. Attorney Bobby …
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Melvin Hill Convicted by Jury on Federal Drug and Firearms Charges

… people’s lives. DEA’s top priority is combatting the opioid epidemic by working with our local, county, state and …
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Manager Of Mystic Enchantments Arrested, Charged In Ongoing Investigation Of Spice, K2 Distribution In Central Illinois

… traffickers who prey on those who suffer the scourge of addiction.  Synthetic cannabinoids are creating a public …
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Maryland Nurse Practitioner Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute and Dispense Oxycodone

… Drugs Seizures (Drugs/Property) Drug Trafficking Oxycodone Opioids On On …
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Bronx Man Indicted as a Major Trafficker Following Seizure of 110 Pounds of Cocaine from Tractor-Trailer in Virginia

… traffickers, who demonstrate blatant disregard for the addiction and damage to lives they cause.”   Defendant      …
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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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Philadelphia Doctor Charged With Running Pill Mill

… case. Gosnell is charged with illegally prescribing highly-addictive painkillers and sedatives outside the usual course …
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Arizona Residents Dispose Of Over Three Tons Of Prescription Drugs In Third Statewide Take-Back Event

… operation to reduce the availability of potentially addictive and dangerous prescription medications and …
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eBay to Pay $59 Million to Settle Controlled Substances Act Allegations Related to Pill Presses Sold Through Its Website

… General Vanita Gupta, Chair of the Department of Justice’s Opioid Epidemic Civil Litigation Task Force. “The Department …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Doctor And Associates As Members Of A Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone And Cocaine

… remedy in pain management. Improperly used, it is a highly addictive and possibly lethal drug. That some of the …
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Local pharmacist pleads guilty to unlawful distribution of oxycodone

… District Office and the United States Attorney’s Office’s Opioid Fraud Abuse and Detection Unit.  It is being …
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Gang Member And Meth Trafficking Organization Leader Sentenced To 22 Years

… methamphetamine merchant who profited handsomely from the addiction of many methamphetamine abusers.” Ramirez …