Focuses on preventing death and illness. President Biden’s administration sent its first drug control strategy to Congress for review last week. Though there have been many federal drug…
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House Writes DOJ, Treasury About Opioid Settlement
Express concerns that companies will saddle taxpayers with $26 billion cost. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform addressed a letter to the departments of Justice and the…
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Supreme Court Hears “Pill Mill” Arguments
Justices seek to determine best practices regarding controlled substances. The Supreme Court is deliberating the case that sentenced two doctors to prison for violation of the Controlled Substances…
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Bipartisan Report Shows Cost of Overdose Epidemic
$1 trillion lost annually to opioid abuse nationwide. Representative David Trone of Maryland and Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, the chairs of the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid…
Read MoreFederal Jury Finds Pharmacies Fueled Opioid Crisis
CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart chain pharmacies are found to have oversupplied pain pills. A federal jury in Ohio found that the companies that own CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart…
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Coast Guard Offloads $94 Million in Cocaine
Drugs were seized from boat near Columbia. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa offloaded over 5,500 pounds of cocaine in Miami this past week. The drugs were seized…
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CDC Releases Pandemic Drug Overdose Data
Nearly 30% higher than the previous year. The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has reported preliminary numbers on deaths as a result of drug overdoses from October…
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Border Patrol Dog Sniffs Out Fentanyl in Burritos
Food proves not to be a deterrent for canines. A canine with the Yuma Sector Border Patrol sniffed out packages of fentanyl hidden within breakfast burritos recently at…
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DEA Seizes Massive Drug Shipments in Florida
Federal agents arrest six suspected cartel traffickers. Last month, the Drug Enforcement Administration seized over 1,100 pounds of methamphetamine in Miami, Florida. The illicit substance was hidden in…
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White House Reports Drug Overdose Spike
Opioid use up by 27% in 2020. Regina LaBelle, the acting director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, gave a briefing this past week…
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