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Statement from DEA Administrator Anne Milgram on the Increase in DEA Fentanyl Seizures Containing Xylazine

April 26, 2024
… xylazine, up from 25% in 2022.  The percentage of fentanyl pills testing positive for xylazine decreased slightly from … 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder and 79.5 million fentanyl pills in 2023. In April 2023, the White House Office of …
April 26, 2024
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Dominican National Indicted for Fentanyl Distribution While On Supervised Release For Drug Trafficking Conviction

… jury in Boston for allegedly distributing 1,000 fentanyl pills while on federal supervised release for a prior drug … identified as a drug supplier who provided fentanyl pills to a distributor and was also observed engaging in …
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San Antonio Man Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Federal Prison for Smuggling Meth and Fentanyl from Mexico

… that contained a white substance and other white and blue pills.   Approximately 39 packages were removed from the … be 34.9 kgs of methamphetamine and that there were 95,417 pills containing fentanyl. Martinez stated that he had …
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Four Defendants Charged in Federal Court for Trafficking Fentanyl and Methamphetamine

… a package delivered via U.S. Mail containing fentanyl pills.  On July 17, 2024, Fletcher received 10,000 pills from an individual and on August 28, 2024, he received over 29,000 fentanyl pills from Garcia-Ruiz. The indictment also alleges that …
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Four Defendants Arrested on Charges They Conspired to Illegally Obtain and Distribute Oxycodone Out of a Pharmacy in Warren County

… that more than 30,000 high-dose 30 milligram oxycodone pills – known as “blues” – were illegally diverted from the … professionals and other criminals who divert these opioid pills into our communities and cause so much addiction, …
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DEA Heroin Enforcement Team, Long Island Heroin Task Force, ATF, Nassau County Police Department and Suffolk County DA team up to arrest 19 members of drug ring

… York City and sold heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, opioid pills and other controlled substances. “They also … distribution, including cooking crack cocaine and pressing pills, which are counterfeit opioids made of dangerous and … crafted to look like pharmaceutically manufactured pills,” District Attorney Sini said. Several of the …
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Rocky Mountain Field Division Removes Almost 900,000 Potentially Deadly Doses of Fentanyl from its Communities During Operation Last Mile

… in 3,337 arrests, the seizure of nearly 44 million fentanyl pills, more than 6,500 pounds of fentanyl powder, more than … Mountain Field Division removed more than 375,000 fentanyl pills and 25 pounds of fentanyl powder from its communities. …
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DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating within the United States

… in 3,337 arrests; the seizure of nearly 44 million fentanyl pills; more than 6,500 pounds of fentanyl powder; more than …
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Indictment Charges Alleged Darknet Marketplace Fentanyl Dealer

… fentanyl and methamphetamine. The counterfeit oxycodone pills Blair sold contained fentanyl and metonitazene; the counterfeit Adderall pills contained methamphetamine. Blair only accepted …
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Sixteen indicted in multi-state drug distribution ring

… Takedowns and seizures yield tens of thousands of fentanyl pills, firearms, and more than 150 pounds of methamphetamine … 2021, and 83 pounds of methamphetamine and 20,000 fentanyl pills were seized in a traffic stop on September 28, 2021.  …
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Long Island Doctor Indicted For Causing Oxycodone Overdose Deaths Of Two Patients

… Conway issued 5,554 oxycodone prescriptions - 782,032 pills - to numerous individuals between January 2009 and … Conway provided him with two prescriptions totaling 450 pills of the drug; (2) On October 27, 2011, Christopher … days after Conway provided him with a prescription for 180 pills of oxycodone. Patient records seized in this case …
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Nationwide Oxycodone Trafficking Ring Dismantled

… Oregon, arranged for tens of thousands of oxycodone pills, acquired in Miami and Las Vegas, to be distributed to … carrier or through the mail. Over 10,000 oxycodone pills and 1,900 counterfeit oxycodone pills were seized by …
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Sands Point Cardiologist Sentenced For Vicious Assault-for-Hire Plot Against Rival Doctor

… injured or killed an innocent man, we shut down an illegal pill distribution scheme and halted the trafficking of … police investigation involving the purchase of Oxycodone pills led to the additional undercover purchases of two …
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Eleven Charged in Bristol Area Drug Trafficking Ring; Several Overdose Deaths Connected

… distributed fentanyl, cocaine, crack-cocaine, counterfeit pills pressed with fentanyl, and pharmaceuticals including … of fentanyl, 200 grams of methamphetamine, 2,500 oxycodone pills, 500 Xanax and Adderall pills, tabs of LSD, one ounce …
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First Defendant Sentenced in Family-Based Drug Trafficking Ring Connected to Lummi Nation Overdose Deaths

… of a group that distributed more than 800,000 fentanyl pills throughout the United States, including in Arizona, …
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Federal health care fraud takedown in Northeastern U.S. results in 54 defendants charged and convicted

… million in losses and the distribution of over 3.25 million pills of opioids in “pill mill” clinics and doctors’ … the criminal prescription of highly-addictive opioid pills to patients with no medical need, the paying of …
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Dark Web Drug Vendor and Clandestine Lab Manufacturer Sentenced to Prison for Trafficking in Meth and Fentanyl

… in the first six months of 2023 alone. Just one fentanyl pill can kill. Two milligrams of fentanyl is considered a … fatal dose and laboratory testing indicates seven out of 10 pills seized by the DEA contain a lethal dose of fentanyl. …
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DEA Washington Division Holds Second Annual Family Summit on Fentanyl

… tricking our youth into consuming fentanyl and fake pills, harnessing the accessibility and anonymity of social …
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Drug Fact Sheets

November 30, 2021
Drug Fact Sheets Filter Drug Fact Sheet Advanced Search Enter Keywords Below Filter Results Select To Narrow Search Results Drug Category Drugs of Concern (1) Narcotics (Opioids) (1) Stimulants (1) Synthetic Opioids (1) Clear All …
November 30, 2021
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Campaigns

December 22, 2025
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December 22, 2025
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Drugs of Concern

Kratom

January 22, 2025
Kratom is a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia. Consumption of its leaves produces both stimulant effects (in low doses) and sedative effects (in high doses), and can lead to psychotic symptoms, and psychological and physiological dependence. Kratom leaves contain two major psychoactive ingredients (mitragynine and 7-hydroxymytragynine). These leaves are...
January 22, 2025
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Jury Convicts Vallejo Man of Drug and Gun Offenses

… Mitchell negotiated a transaction for 1,000 methamphetamine pills with a buyer who testified at trial. Federal law … residence, agents recovered methamphetamine-laced pills and an industrial pill pressing machine. Hidden inside …
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Trafficker smuggling large quantities of deadly fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine sentenced to 168 months

… prison for conspiring to smuggle more than 450,000 fentanyl pills from Mexico into the United States during a nine-month … in her plea agreement, Kelly smuggled the fentanyl pills through ports of entry in San Diego and Nogales, … into the U.S. could have produced millions of fentanyl pills and significantly impacted the increasing …
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Report fraudulent and suspicious pharmaceutical activities anonymously through the DEA San Diego RxAbuse Tip Line

… well as information about people who are doctor shopping or pill seeking for illegal purposes. The vast majority of … lead to further identification of doctors, pharmacists, and pill seekers who are fueling the opioid crisis that we are … know of someone who is illegally obtaining or dispensing pills, please call and report them to help make this …
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East Windsor Man Sentenced to Prison for Oxycodone Prescription Fraud Scheme

… using their Medicaid or Medicare benefits, and provided the pills to Kemp and his co-conspirators in exchange for … prescription. Kemp and his co-coconspirators then sold the pills to individuals suffering from opioid addictions. Kemp … oxycodone, almost all of which were for 150 30-mg oxycodone pills. Judge Bolden ordered Kemp to pay $48,836.14 in …
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Dominican National Sentenced to 38 Months in Prison for Selling Oxycodone from New Britain Grocery Store

… began investigating individuals who were selling oxycodone pills from Elzier Grocery, located at 1485 Corbin Avenue in … made multiple controlled purchases of oxycodone pills from Lugo, Eliezer Perez and Elzier Grocery’s owner, … and a nearby residence revealed more than 1000 oxycodone pills, drug packaging materials, drug ledgers, and …
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East Windsor Man Admits Role In Oxycodone Prescription Fraud Scheme

… using their Medicaid or Medicare benefits, and provided the pills to Kemp, Welborn and their co-conspirator in exchange … Kemp, Welborn and their co-conspirator then sold the pills to individuals suffering from opioid addictions. Kemp, … oxycodone, almost all of which were for 150 30-mg oxycodone pills. Kemp was arrested on August 2, 2019.  He is released …
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Man Sentenced to 25 Years for Causing Fentanyl Death

… today to 25 years in prison for giving a man a fentanyl pill which caused his death. According to court documents, … death. On July 31, 2019, Ralls gave Michael Marsalla, 35, a pill that Ralls knew was laced with fentanyl. Ralls admitted … Kansas, Police Department investigated the case. Fake Pills Overdose Fentanyl On On Press Release Image Layout …
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Fentanyl Drug Dealing Results in 10 Years in Prison

… guilty plea hearing last year, Pulido admitted that he sold pills containing fentanyl to an individual in Cape Girardeau … to Pulido at the time, the individual purchasing the pills was working as an informant for the federal Drug …
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Miami Woman Going to Prison on Fentanyl Charge

… and found a plastic bag containing a large quantity of blue pills. The defendant was detained, and the car was towed for … plastic bag containing approximately 9 lbs. 13 oz. of blue pills bearing the markings “m” and “30.” The pills contained 4,389 grams of fentanyl. The sentencing is …