A painstaking, two-year investigation into the biggest opioid distribution case in U.S. history yielded what investigators said was solid evidence that the company had failed to report suspicious orders of highly addictive painkillers.
The DEA is opening if first new field office in nearly 20 years in an effort to combat prescription-opioid abuse.
Growing impatient with the DEA dragging its feet on the opioid epidemic, members of the Energy and Commerce Committee are threatening to subpoena the agency for information on “pill dumping” in West Virginia.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Joe Rannazzisi isn’t a household name, but he’s certainly getting well known, particularly after his appearance on Sunday on CBS’ s “60 Minutes,” where he was referred to as a whistleblower who tried cracking down on drug companies. Scott Highham and Lenny Bernstein of the Washington Post write: Joe Rannazzisi is…
The ever-growing opioid crisis that claims thousands of lives a year also is becoming increasingly dangerous for law enforcement agencies, including the DEA.
The DEA said more than 30 people died in Maricopa County in Arizona from counterfeit oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl.
Many of these deaths result not from painkillers, but from the DEA’s war on painkillers.
The DEA is waging a war against a deadly cousin of the synthetic opioid fentanyl to curb abuse and overdoses.
