Drug Enforcement Administration

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration today issued a letter to e-commerce companies regarding the sale of pill presses.  As regulated entities under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), e-commerce platforms are generally required to comply with CSA recordkeeping, identification, and reporting requirements on the distribution, importation, and exportation of pill press machines. The [...]

The company admits to wrongdoing and agrees to pay first-ever administrative forfeiture for failure to report thousands of suspicious orders of opioids The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced today a settlement with pharmaceutical distributor Morris & Dickson Co., LLC for failing to maintain effective controls against diversion of controlled [...]

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has launched a new campaign encouraging the public to make Every Day Take Back Day by utilizing year-round collection sites to dispose of unneeded and unwanted medications. For more than a decade, DEA has worked with state and local law enforcement partners to host National Prescription [...]

This fall, DEA and law enforcement partners collected 599,897 pounds (300 tons) of unneeded medications across 4,955 collection sites. Since 2010, DEA, along with its partners, has collected 17,300,454 pounds (8,650 tons) of unneeded prescription drugs. Total Law Enforcement Participation: 4383 Total Collection Sites: 4675 Total Weight Collected:  599,897 lbs. (300 tons) Total Weight All Time: 17,900,351 lbs. (8,950 [...]