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DEA Columbia District Office Holds 12th Prescription Drug Take-Back Saturday, October 22

October 18, 2016
… due to abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers.  6.4 million Americans age 12 and over-2.4 …
October 18, 2016
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DEA Nashville District Office Holds 12th Prescription Drug Take-Back Saturday, October 22

October 18, 2016
… due to abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers. There are 6.4 million Americans age 12 and …
October 18, 2016
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Is This Saturday

October 18, 2016
… due to abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers.  6.4 million Americans abuse prescription …
October 18, 2016
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DEA And Local Law Enforcement Partners Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs October 28

October 24, 2017
… and anonymous, no questions asked. “Disposing of leftover painkillers or other addictive medicines in the house is one …
October 24, 2017
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DEA Holds Its Eighth Prescription Drug Take Back Day On April 26 Take-Back Day To Help Residents Clean Out Their Medicine Cabinets Of Old, Unwanted, Potentially Harmful Drugs

April 22, 2014
… of prescription (22,134, including 16,651 from narcotic painkillers) than from motor vehicle accidents, says the …
April 22, 2014
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Doctor Sentenced To 57 Months In Prison For Selling Oxycodone Prescriptions To Addicts And Dealers For Cash And Gifts

December 09, 2014
… thousands of Oxycodone pills and other highly addictive painkillers without any legitimate medical purpose. U.S. …
December 09, 2014
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Palmer Man Indicted For Role In Heroin Related Death

February 19, 2016
… in 2014, 61 percent of (28,647) were caused by prescription painkillers and heroin. Ducasse will be arraigned in federal …
February 19, 2016
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DEA’S National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

April 27, 2016
… due to abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers.  6.5 million Americans abuse prescription …
April 27, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’S National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

April 27, 2016
… due to abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers.  6.5 million Americans abuse prescription …
April 27, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’S National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

April 27, 2016
… due to abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers.  6.5 million Americans abuse prescription …
April 27, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

DEA’S National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

April 27, 2016
… due to abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers.  6.5 million Americans abuse prescription …
April 27, 2016
PRESS RELEASE

DEA And Partners Hold Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday

October 18, 2016
… due to abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers.  6.4 million Americans age 12 and over-2.4 …
October 18, 2016
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DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday

October 17, 2016
… due to abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioid painkillers.  6.4 million Americans age 12 and over-2.4 …
October 17, 2016
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Head Of Newman Drug Ring Pleads Guilty In Huntington

May 27, 2014
… open air drug markets, and curtailing the spread of opiate painkillers and heroin in communities across the Southern …
May 27, 2014
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Northern California And Central Valley Resident Dispose Of More Than 7.5 Tons Of Medicine During DEA’s Third National Prescription Drug Take-Back Event

November 04, 2011
… for Disease Control and Prevention, enough prescription painkillers were prescribed in 2010 to medicate every …
November 04, 2011
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DEA St. Louis Division joins Kiwanis to "Crush Drugs" in St. Charles County

July 30, 2020
… least once in their lifetime, they had taken prescription pain medicine without a doctor’s prescription or differently …
July 30, 2020
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Seizure Of Additional $28 Million Worth Of Bitcoins Belonging To Ross William Ulbricht, Alleged Owner And Operator Of “Silk Road” Website

October 25, 2013
… Road,” a hidden website designed to enable its users to buy and sell illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and … unlawful goods and services to well over a hundred thousand buyers, and to launder hundreds of millions of dollars … online criminal marketplace designed to enable its users to buy and sell drugs and other illegal goods and services …
October 25, 2013
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Recovery Resources

March 28, 2025
… and dependence on opioids, such as heroin or prescription pain relievers, at  SAMSHA.gov . Opioid Treatment Program … and dependence on opioids, such as heroin or prescription pain relievers at  Opioid Treatment Program Directory . …
March 28, 2025
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Long Island Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Distribute, Distributing Fentanyl Causing Two Overdose Deaths

March 21, 2024
… conspiracy and sale of fentanyl disguised as prescription pain pills directly led to the poisoning deaths of two Long … and Trimarchi to sell fentanyl disguised as oxycodone pain pills and sold such pills to Victim-1 and Victim-2. The …
March 21, 2024
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Rockville Centre doctor indicted for allegedly selling opioid and amphetamine prescriptions

October 30, 2019
… “Defendant Blatti gave no consideration of an individual’s pain management or addiction history and selfishly for … in 1976, had no specialized training or accreditation in pain management. He maintained an office in a Franklin …
October 30, 2019
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Doctor convicted on nine counts in connection with oxycodone and fentanyl diversion scheme

February 22, 2019
… Square, where Lopez, who purported to specialize in pain management, wrote thousands of prescriptions for … Subsys, which was intended to treat breakthrough cancer pain, for which those patients – many of whom did not have …
February 22, 2019
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Owner and Employees of Alleged Pill Mill Facing Federal Indictment

March 05, 2021
… jury has indicted the owner and operator of a purported pain management clinic, as well as two nurse practitioners … Holistic Health and Wellness Medical Spa LLP, a purported “pain management” clinic located in Largo, Maryland, which …
March 05, 2021
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Doctor Gets 10 Years For Operating “Pill Mill” In Alabama

May 10, 2017
… of his unlawful drug dealing by purchasing Schedule II pain medications-specifically hydromorphone and … in Charge Bret Hamilton. “The diversion of prescription pain medication contributes to the widespread abuse of …
May 10, 2017
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Surveillance Leads To Seizure Of $8 Million Worth Of Heroin

June 13, 2013
… is fueled in part by those that become addicted to diverted pain pills, and it’s the heroin and pain pills sold in the illegal drug market causing the most …
June 13, 2013
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Indiana Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Meth Trafficking

January 19, 2022
… a pound of methamphetamine during a series of controlled buys. In August 2020, investigators arrested Fowler and …
January 19, 2022
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Fort Wayne man sentenced to 17 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine

August 21, 2019
… informant and an undercover agent made several controlled buys of heroin and cocaine from Mr. Jefferson.  Jefferson …
August 21, 2019
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La Crosse Man Sentenced to 48 months in prison

December 18, 2019
… methamphetamine from Conner.  During one of the controlled buys, Conner admitted to selling a half pound of …
December 18, 2019
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South Bend, Indiana man sentenced for conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine

June 11, 2020
… a pound of methamphetamine. Kinds admitted that he had been buying and selling methamphetamine by the pound, and that he …
June 11, 2020
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Mexican National sentenced to 9 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Tehama County

February 13, 2020
… of methamphetamine from Cervantes during three controlled buys. In addition, when law enforcement executed a search …
February 13, 2020
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Convicted Drug Trafficker Found Guilty

September 25, 2012
… a confidential informant in Bradenton, for the purpose of buying a half-kilogram of cocaine. During the transaction, …
September 25, 2012