May 15 | News
Cardinal Health today said it had agreed to a settlement with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) that allows the company to bring resolution to ongoing litigation.
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Apr 27 | News
With the Drug Enforcement Agency's National Prescription Drug Take Back Day taking place on April 28, Teva Pharmaceuticals announced interesting survey results they hope will inspire prescription medication users to act more responsibly when using and disposing of drugs.
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Mar 19 | News
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has allowed the Drug Enforcement Administration to suspend a pharmaceutical distributor for the time being over its allegedly ineffective control of a powerful painkiller.
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Mar 1 | News
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Drug Enforcement Administration can move forward with its suspension of a Florida pharmaceutical distributor for alleged ineffective control of a powerful painkiller.
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Feb 15 | News
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Chicago doctor who prosecutors say dispensed more of the powerful painkiller oxycodone from 2003 to 2005 than any other physician in the country was sentenced Tuesday to four life terms in the overdose deaths of four patients.
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Feb 14 | News
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered the Drug Enforcement Administration to explain its rationale for trying to shut down a Florida pharmaceutical distribution center.
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Aug 22 2011 | News
NEW YORK (AP) — It is the nation's second-most abused medicine, linked to murders, celebrity overdoses and a rising tide of violent pharmacy robberies. But since 1999 federal regulators have put off deciding whether to tighten controls over hydrocodone, the addictive narcotic that is the key ingredient in Vicodin and other medicines.
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Mar 16 2011 | News
All Georgia executions are off after federal
drug agents seized the state's supply of a sedative used in lethal injections
that has been challenged by capital punishment critics and death-row inmates,
including a man recently executed who called the British exporter of the drug a
"fly-by-night supplier."
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Mar 2 2011 | Video
A synthetic marijuana substance known as "spice" is placed under an emergency ban by the DEA due to health concerns.
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