Drug Enforcement Administration
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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty to criminal charges
- Health & Pharma
- November 25, 2020, 09:40
Purdue Pharma has pleaded guilty to criminal charges over the handling of its addictive prescription painkiller OxyContin, capping a deal with federal(...)

Irish-led agency seized cocaine worth a record €2bn last year
- Crime & Law
- January 17, 2020, 00:40
The Irish-led agency responsible for tackling the importation of drugs into Europe seized more than €2 billion worth of cocaine last year, its largest(...)

Drug companies head off opioid trial with $260m settlement
- Health & Pharma
- October 21, 2019, 09:27
Drugmaker Teva Pharmaceuticals and three distributors of opioid painkillers reached a settlement with two US counties over their alleged role in the o(...)

Netherlands unveils new ‘narco brigade’ to tackle gangland crime
- Europe
- September 29, 2019, 20:04
Given that the Netherlands has a well-rooted illegal drugs industry, with Rotterdam as its trans-shipment hub, there was some surprise last week when (...)

The Irish Times view on the US opioid crisis: where the blame lies
- Editorial
- August 27, 2019, 18:30
The ruling by an Oklahoma judge that Johnson & Johnson intentionally played down the dangers and oversold the benefits of opioids is an important (...)

El Chapo sentenced to life in prison over murderous drug empire
- US
- July 17, 2019, 16:14
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the Mexican drug lord who twice escaped maximum-security prisons in that country, will spend the rest of his life in a US p(...)

After ‘El Chapo’, Mexico faces a new phase in its neverending war on drugs
- World
- February 21, 2019, 01:00
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador received a blunt warning earlier this month: a crude hand-painted sign strung up on a bridge in the border city (...)

El Chapo trial: The 11 biggest revelations from the case
- US
- February 5, 2019, 09:59
After a lengthy 11-week trial in Brooklyn, New York, a jury on Monday began deliberating the case of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug kingpin k(...)

The massacre that shocked rural America, and the huge cost of putting suspects on trial
- US
- December 30, 2018, 18:27
After 550 interviews and visits to 10 states, including a 10,000km round-trip to Alaska, criminal investigators in Ohio are closing in on solving one (...)

Prince kept opioids in aspirin bottles to hide addiction
- Music
- April 18, 2017, 06:56
At the time of Prince’s death, his Paisley Park home and recording compound in Minnesota were strewn with “a sizeable amount” of narcotic painkillers (...)