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National Pain Report
December 20, 2017
Dear Senate Staffer: It is likely that the December 17th article in the Washington Posts will dominate much of the Monday (12/18/2017) news with respect to the DEA's Division of Diversion Investigation, whose staff your Senator called to testify last week. The following points may be worth considering andÃâà...
WBKO
November 30, 2017
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions says that he plans to implement a new drug enforcement administration division to oversee states hard-hit by the opioid epidemic like Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The division will help law enforcement fight illicit drug trafficking in Appalachia. In addition, 12Ãâà...
Quartz
November 29, 2017
In addition to creating the new DEA division, Sessions said his office is setting aside $7 million to fund an anti-heroin task force, and that every US attorney would have a designated person to coordinate opioid cases. Meanwhile, Trump appointed adviser Kellyanne Conway to oversee the White House'sÃâà...
KRIS Corpus Christi News
November 10, 2017
Special Agent Will Glaspy has seen it all in a long career with the Drug Enforcement Administration. Glaspy spent a decade running DEA operations from the Rio Grande Valley to the Coastal Bend. After three years in charge of the El Paso division, Glaspy is back in South Texas as the Special Agent inÃâà...
KVIA El Paso
November 8, 2017
EL PASO, Texas - The El Paso DEA Division collected 10,975 pounds of drugs on National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 28. The El Paso DEA Division includes all of New Mexico and goes as far East in Texas as Midland. In the Texas portion of the division 3,043 pounds were collected, andÃâà...
The Cannabist
October 19, 2017
Joe Rannazzisi is a man of strong passions who admits that he has a temper. For more than a decade, he was the frontman in the government's war against opioid abuse. As head of the Office of Diversion Control for the Drug Enforcement Administration, he was responsible for cracking down on doctors,Ãâà...
Chicago Tribune
October 15, 2017
"The drug industry, the manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and chain drugstores, have an influence over Congress that has never been seen before," said Joseph T. Rannazzisi, who ran the DEA's division responsible for regulating the drug industry and led a decade-long campaign of aggressiveÃâà...
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