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SoCal Doctor Charged With Illegally Writing Prescriptions For Addictive Narcotics And Laundering Proceeds Of His Drug Dealing

… the “maximum” allowable number of extra-strength Vicodin pills. Based on review of the undercover recordings and …
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31 Dealers Arrested In Drug Sweep In Yonkers, NY

… of heroin, cocaine, crack-cocaine, and prescription pills were purchased from these street level drug dealers …
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Civil Complaint Filed Against Islip Terrace Doctor For Issuing Prescriptions Without Legitimate Medical Need

… oath to do no harm when he continued to prescribe oxycodone pills to patients after being alerted of their failed drug …
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Amherst Doctor Arrested For Distributing Controlled Substances And Obtaining Prescriptions By Fraud

… for pain medication, he was abusing the prescription pills himself. As a health care professional, Dr. Cowie …
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Three California Men Sentenced For Leading A Large Scale Juneau Oxycodone Distribution And Money Laundering Conspiracy

… transport, and sale of tens of thousands of oxycodone pills in the Juneau area. Thomas laundered over 1.5 million …
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DEA Hosts Its Sixth Statewide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day April 27 As Public Participation Continues To Rise

… opportunity these Take-Back Day events provide to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially …
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DEA’s Seventh Statewide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Results In Another Big Haul

… and increased enforcement to address doctor shopping and pill mills. Shortly after DEA’s first Take-Back Day event …
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DEA Sponsors 7th National Prescription Take Back Day

… will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially …
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“2fly” Gang Member Pleads Guilty To Bronx Murder In Connection With Racketeering Conspiracy

… cocaine, but also sold powder cocaine and prescription pills, such as oxycodone.  2Fly members and associates …
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DEA Announces 14th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

… over 8.1 million pounds -- more than 4,050 tons -- of pills. The Take-Back initiative addresses a vital public …
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Arizona To Host Second Statewide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day In April

… will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially …
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Doctor Who Supplied Oxycodone Ring Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 36 Months In Prison

… established that approximately 11,000 oxycodone pills were obtained through health care fraud and …
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Justice Department Announces Settlement Agreement With Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Over Pharmacy Control Failures

… Cancer Care (SCCA) relating to losses of more than 96,000 pills of oxycodone between 2011 and 2013.  SCCA …
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DEA Holding Second Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day In April

… will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially …
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Maryland Woman Found Guilty Of Leading Oxycodone Operation

… has fraudulently obtained approximately 130,000 oxycodone pills.  Thirteen other members of this conspiracy have also …
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DEA Pennsylvania And Delaware Holding Fifth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day In September

… 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’s Third National Prescription Drug Take Back Day A Huge Success

… and increased enforcement to address “doctor shopping” and pill mills. On …
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Pharmacist Charged With Illegal Distribution Of Painkillers

… illegally dispensed over 11,000 oxycodone and oxymorphone pills. Today’s arrests are the culmination of a ten month …
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Rochester Doctor Sentenced For Illegal Drug Trafficking

… has seen.  Coming at a time when the abuse of opiate-based pills has become a national epidemic, the efforts of the DEA …
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McKesson Agrees To Pay Record $150 Million Settlement For Failure To Report Suspicious Orders Of Pharmaceutical Drugs

… an increasing amount of oxycodone and hydrocodone pills, frequently misused products that are part of the …
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Queens Doctor Sentenced To 54 Months’ Imprisonment For Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone

… for oxycodone in an attempt to illegally provide pills,” stated Acting United States Attorney Currie. “Health …
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Leader Of Oxycodone Ring Sentenced To 15 Years’ Imprisonment For His Leadership In Long Island Oxycodone Distribution Ring

… illegally obtained and distributed over 95,000 oxycodone pills BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal …
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Leader Of “Trinitarios” Gang Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 10 Years In Prison

… void, and continued to  sell drugs - cocaine, marijuana, pills and what amounted to kilogram quantities of heroin …
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Niagara Falls Police Officer, Two Others Charged With Selling Cocaine

… 61 grams of cocaine, a clear bag containing hydrocodone pills, and two clear glass jars containing 10 grams of …
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Mexican Nationals Sentenced for Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses

… equipped with a machine gun conversion device, and fentanyl pills. Ramirez admitted participating in Lopez's drug … case. ### Arrests/Convictions - Major Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Guns/Weapons Seizures (Drugs/Property) Synthetic drugs …
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Operation Engage Richmond

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… Stimulant that speeds up body’s system that comes as pill or powder. Find Treatment Find substance misuse …
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National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in Charges against 601 Individuals Responsible for over $2 Billion in Fraud Losses

… prescriptions to fill bulk orders for over one million pills of hydrocodone and oxycodone, which the pharmacy, in … $8 million for medically unnecessary compounded creams and pills. In the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of …
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Terrance C. Cole Sworn in as Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

… methamphetamine, and heroin, and press fentanyl into pills made to look like prescription medications. This is …
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Fentanyl Dealers Sentenced to Federal Prison

… P. Hakala-Finch prosecuted the case. Drug Trafficking Fake Pills Fentanyl Awareness On On Press Release Image Layout …
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Mexican National Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Drug Conspiracy and Illegal Reentry

… a total of 10 kilograms of heroin and 100,000 fentanyl pills before Bojorquez-Moreno stopped communicating with the …