Report: DEA responded slowly to increase in opioid use and abuse over past 2 decades
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice investigated how the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency responded to the significant increase in opioid use and abuse over the past 2 decades, and the DEA came up lacking. “We found that DEA was slow to respond to this growing public health crisis and that it’s regulatory and enforcement efforts could have been more effective,” said Michael Horowitz, Inspector General, US Department of Justice. A report released…
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