Drug Enforcement Administration News

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today provided the following statement after the conclusion of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee meeting of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about suvorexant , Merck's investigational medicine to treat insomnia.

A Norwalk man who served time in prison for his involvement in the 1993 slaying of a 7-year-old girl was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years for his role in a ring that distributed cocaine in the southwestern part of the state.

U.S. officials on Wednesday said their intelligence indicates that the Sinaloa and JuA rez drug-trafficking organizations are active in the JuA rez region, and that a recent spike in drug violence in JuA rez can be attributed to cartel disputes.

In December, retired Coast Guard commander Dennis Zecca was arrested by federal agents in Marathon.

The second annual Cumberland County Drug Take Back program collected a total of 438 pounds of unwanted drugs from area residents for disposal by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Federal agents seized more than three dozen boxes from a doctor's home and office.

The normally-tranquil grounds of the Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa were interrupted this weekend when an undercover officer from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency fired multiple shots at four suspects in a narcotics case.

Lower Pottsgrove's police department , which took the lead among local law enforcement agencies several years ago in joining the federal Drug Enforcement Agency's semi-annual pharmaceutical "take back" days - during which area residents can rid themselves of unwanted prescription medicines - is now making take-backs a daily routine, Chief Michael ... (more)

Somewhere in the remote wilderness of southern Utah on land controlled by the federal government, members of a Mexican cartel are putting marijuana plants in the earth in hopes of reaping a multimillion dollar harvest this fall.

Federal agents arrested a high-ranking DPNR official at the Red Hook ferry dock on Friday after they said they saw him using a DPNR boat for drug trafficking and found him in possession of 7 kilograms of cocaine.

The Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office says two city residents have been arrested for possessing nearly $2 million worth of steroids and other controlled pharmaceuticals.

The third former wife of Charlie Sheen is embroiled in an on-going investigation to decide whether she can retain custody of the pair's twin sons, and her 'medical records' could be made available.

Two weeks ago, President Obama traveled to Costa Rica to observe a summit of Central American leaders, focused in part on regional security.

Jesus A. Carrera: 24, of 615 N. DuPage Ave. in Addison, was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration Thursday on charges of delivery of drugs and participating in a calculated criminal drug conspiracy.

Veronica Cabada hugs Alondra Lucio, who is 33 weeks pregnant with the child of Cabada's late son, Johann Sebastian Cabada.

This week the United States Drug Enforcement Administration made the synthetic cannabinoids UR-144, XLR11, and AKB48 Schedule I, illegal drugs under the Controlled Substances Act for the next two years.

When Hadiya Pendleton was shot in a Chicago park, she quickly became a symbol of the deadly street violence in the city.

A seaside view from St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the head of the three-island U.S. Caribbean territory's environment agency was arrested on drug trafficking charges.

A man undergoing treatment for drug addiction and substance abuse reads a Koran at a rehabilitation centre of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Amman April 2, 2013.

During a four-hour period one Saturday morning in April, Mahwah police officers say dozens of area residents went to the police station to turn in old prescriptions and unused medications.