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DEA And Partners Across Kentucky Work To Prevent Drug Abuse Prescription Drug Take Back Day Is This Saturday

… taken in over 7.1 million pounds-more than 3,500 tons-of pills.  The public can find a nearby collection site at … nearby collections sites by calling 800-882-9529.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …
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DEA Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

… taken in over 7.1 million pounds-more than 3,500 tons-of pills.  The public can find a nearby collection site here or by calling 800-882-9529. Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …
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Public Response To DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Days Keeps Growing

… Take-Back Day this past Saturday collected 50 percent more pills than the previous one, demonstrating the American … and increased enforcement to address doctor shopping and pill mills. Shortly after DEA’s first Take-Back Day event …
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Fort Smith Man Sentenced To Five Years For Drug Store Burglary

… on July 3, 2012, Teas stole a large amount of oxycontin pills from the pharmacy and then traveled to Moundsville, … Teas was traveling in and discovered bottles of oxycontin pills that were then traced back to the Fort Smith drug …
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DEA Sponsoring 11th National Prescription Take Back Day

… 800-882-9539.  “Most prescription drug abusers get their pills from friends and family, including from the household … firearms.  The removal from homes of unwanted prescription pills that can be abused, stolen or resold is an easy way to …
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Monmouth County Designated As A HIDTA County

… in marijuana cases, second in the state in prescription pill cases, third in cocaine cases, and fourth in heroin … our federal partners in our fight against the prescription pill and heroin epidemic,” said Monmouth County Prosecutor …
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Physician And Owner Of Atlanta Pain Clinic Sentenced For Illegally Prescribing Painkillers

… commitment DEA has made to aggressively go after ‘illegal pill mills’ and bring to justice criminals who take … to the forfeiture of over $425,000 in proceeds from his pill mill operation.  Piracha was convicted on this charge …
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DEA Task Force Investigation Into Prescription Narcotics Trafficking Results In 13 Arrests

… wiretaps, controlled purchases of OxyCodone pills and physical surveillance. In association with today’s arrests, law enforcement seized more than 2000 pills and approximately $11,000 in cash. “Prescription drug …
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New Haven Man Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison For Role In Fraudulent Oxycodone Prescription Scheme

… and fraudulently obtained more than 80,000 oxycodone pills.  Investigators identified more than 800 fraudulent … then sold the oxycodone for $20 to $30 per 30 milligram pill.  Eleven individuals were charged as a result of the …
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NYPD Officer Andre Clarke Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone In Vermont

… of Valley Stream, New York. Foreste, in turn, supplied the pills to Dannis Hackney, of Burlington, Vermont, who sold … Burlington area addicts. Foreste personally brought Hackney pills, and sometimes sent them via U.S. Mail. Clarke, …
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DEA New England Field Division Collects A Record 43.4 Tons Of Prescription Drugs During The 11th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

… overdose.  These efforts help remove unwanted prescription pills that can be abused, stolen, or resold which helps our continued dedication to combat the prescription  pill, heroin, and fentanyl epidemic of substance abuse and …
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New Haven Man Pleads Guilty To Role In Scheme To Obtain Oxycodone Through Fraudulent Prescriptions

… and fraudulently obtained more than 80,000 oxycodone pills.  Nearly all of the runners employed by the conspiracy … then sold the oxycodone for $20 to $30 per 30 milligram pill.  Morales recruited runners to fill fraudulent …
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Haverhill Resident Guilty Of Drug Conspiracy

… participated in the distribution of cocaine and oxycodone pills in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. More than $18,000 … arrested on October 1, 2015, and a quantity of oxycodone pills and over $2,000 in cash were recovered from his …
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New Haven Man Sentenced To 11 Years In Federal Prison For Role In Fraudulent Oxycodone Prescription Scheme

… and fraudulently obtained more than 80,000 oxycodone pills.  Investigators identified more than 800 fraudulent … then sold the oxycodone for $20 to $30 per 30 milligram pill.  DeJesus, Julian Cintron and David Thompson, all of …
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Dallas DEA Gears Up For 5th Local Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

… drug “Take-Back” initiative that seeks to prevent increased pill abuse and theft. The DEA, along with its law … partners. DEA’s last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% …
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Ring Leader Of Fraudulent Oxycodone Prescription Scheme Sentenced To 14 Years In Federal Prison

… and fraudulently obtained more than 80,000 oxycodone pills.  Investigators identified more than 800 fraudulent … then sold the oxycodone for $20 to $30 per 30 milligram pill. Eleven individuals were charged as a result of the …
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DEA New England Field Division Collects A Record 48 Tons Of Prescription Drugs During The 14th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

… help remove unwanted, expired and unused prescription pills that can be abused, stolen, or resold which helps our continued dedication to combat the prescription pill, heroin, and fentanyl epidemic of substance abuse and …
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DEA North Carolina Fifth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29, 2012

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state, free of charge, no … partners. DEA’s last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% …
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DEA Tennessee Holds Fifth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29, 2012

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state, free of charge, no … partners. DEA’s last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% …
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DEA South Carolina Holds Fifth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29, 2012

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state, free of charge, no … partners. DEA’s last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% …
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DEA Atlanta Holds Fifth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29, 2012

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state, free of charge, no … partners. DEA’s last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% …
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Major Drug Trafficker Receives 14 Year Sentence

… to 14 years in prison for trafficking over 700,000 pills of BZP, a drug similar to ecstasy. “Based on the … drug in U.S. history.  In particular, officers found the pills hidden in the walls of the house, behind insulation, …
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DEA Atlanta Division Office Heads Up Eighth Prescription Drug Take-Back Event April 26, 2014

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state free of charge, no questions … their zip code.  Or they can call 1-800-882-9539. Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …
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DEA Charlotte District Office Heads Up Eighth Prescription Drug Take-Back Event April 26, 2014

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state free of charge, no questions … their zip code.  Or they can call 1-800-882-9539. Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …
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DEA South Carolina District Office Heads Up Eighth Prescription Drug Take-Back Event April 26, 2014

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state free of charge, no questions … their zip code.  Or they can call 1-800-882-9539. Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …
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DEA Nashville District Office Heads Up Eighth Prescription Drug Take-Back Event April 26, 2014

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state free of charge, no questions … their zip code.  Or they can call 1-800-882-9539. Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …
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DEA Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

… taken in over 7.1 million pounds-more than 3,500 tons-of pills.  The public can find a nearby collection site here or by calling 800-882-9529.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …
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Mallinckrodt Agrees To Pay $35 Million Settlement

… the chain of supply that resulted in millions of oxycodone pills being sold on the street.  Thanks to the hard work of … clinics, an increasingly excessive quantity of oxycodone pills without notifying DEA of these suspicious orders. …
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DEA To Hold Drug Take-Back Event At Locations Throughout Los Angeles Saturday, October 29th

… providing the public with another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites throughout Los Angeles, Riverside, San …
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Operator Of San Fernando Valley Medical Clinics Sentenced To 14 Years In Federal Prison For Illegally Distributing Oxycodone

… warrants on September 1, 2011, federal agents found 1,116 pills in Davtyan’s Encino home and another 7,589 pills in her Mercedes parked in her garage.  Davtyan’s …