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Revolving Door: DEA’s No.2 quits amid reports of previous consulting work for Big Pharma

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s second-in-command has quietly stepped down amid reporting by The Associated Press that he once consulted for a pharmaceutical distributor sanctioned for a deluge of suspicious painkiller shipments and did similar work for the drugmaker that became the face of the opioid epidemic: Purdue Pharma.

https://apnews.com/article/opioids-oxycontin-fentanyl-purdue-pharma-dea-72726613cd30be246905fe1f171c2ed8?

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DEA Seeks to Place Two Psychedelics on List of Schedule I Drugs

“The Drug Enforcement Administration proposes placing two phenethylamine hallucinogens, as identified in this proposed rule, in schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act”, states a notice published on the Federal Register. A public posting on the Register is a legal requirement for the DEA to place a substance on the list of Schedule I drugs.

https://themarijuanaherald.com/2023/12/dea-seeks-to-place-two-psychedelics-on-list-of-schedule-i-drugs/

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Inside the Risky U.S. Probe of Allegations That Drug Mafias Financed a Campaign of Mexico’s President López Obrador

In the summer of 2010, as U.S. agents dug into allegations that a powerful drug mafia had poured money into Mexican politics, the investigators took direct aim at the man who is now the country’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

https://www.propublica.org/article/mexico-amlo-dea-probe-cartel-campaign-donations?

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Secret DEA files show agents joked about rape in WhatsApp chat. Then one of them was accused of it. Thousands of secret law enforcement documents obtained by The Associated Press offer a never-before-seen window into a culture of corruption among U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents who parlayed the agency’s shadowy money laundering operations into a worldwide pursuit of binge drinking and illicit sex. Read more.

Why this matters: In a WhatsApp chat that quickly devolved into depravity, a group of DEA agents boasted about their “world debauchery tour” of “boozing and whoring” on the government’s dime. They swapped lurid images of their latest sexual conquests. And at one point they even joked about “forcible anal rape.” Within months of that jaw-dropping exchange, an agent in the group chat was accused of that very crime.   The yearlong group chat, recovered by federal authorities, included five DEA agents identified by AP. Among them was José Irizarry, considered the ringleader of the debauchery and perhaps the most corrupt agent in the DEA’s 50-year history. Irizarry has maintained to AP in recent interviews that he was not a rogue agent and accountability is long overdue for the many others who joined him in a wild ride that mocked the DEA’s mission.

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DEA allows ramped up production of ADHD meds

The Biden administration is raising production caps on the sought after ADHD drug Vyvanase and its generic equivalents, in response to a Food and Drug Administration request to address shortages of the prescription stimulant.

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/05/dea-ramps-up-production-adhd-meds?

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DEA shutting down two offices in China even as agency struggles to stem flow of fentanyl chemicals

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is shutting down two of its hard-won offices in China, The Associated Press has learned, a move that comes even as the agency struggles to disrupt the flow of precursor chemicals from the country that have fueled a fentanyl epidemic blamed for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

https://apnews.com/article/dea-drugs-china-fentanyl-diplomacy-4405d6169a47c723c6932a3294c4ac35?

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DEA Insiders Warned About Legality of Phone Tracking Program. Their Concerns Were Kept Secret.

The DEA ignored the internal alarm about its mass phone data collection program, according to newly revealed details in a government report.

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/18/dea-hemisphere-phone-data-collection-surveillance/?

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DEA names Colombian president ‘priority target’ as US prosecutors probe ties to drug traffickers

NEW YORK (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been designated a “priority target” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as federal prosecutors in New York probe his alleged ties to drug traffickers, according to people familiar with the matter and records seen by The Associated Press.

https://apnews.com/article/us-investigation-petro-colombian-president-95886306b7c3107df584e154726a8737?

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Weapons-grade chemical carfentanil surges as dangerous substitute for fentanyl

Carfentanil, a weapons-grade chemical that authorities say is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times stronger than fentanyl, has seen a drastic resurgence across the U.S., killing hundreds of unsuspecting drug users. The rise coincides with a recent crackdown by the Chinese government on the sale of precursors used to make fentanyl. Those regulations are likely prompting traffickers in Mexico to use carfentanil to boost the potency of a weakened version of fentanyl, according to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration intelligence bulletins reviewed by The Associated Press. Read more.

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Mexico's Sheinbaum demands explanations after US Embassy officials die in Chihuahua What to know about psychedelic retreats, a booming business with few safety guardrails

[Hanseng]

On 9/17/2024 at 8:30 AM, phkrause said:

the country that have fueled a fentanyl epidemic blamed for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Why should China care about fentany entering the USA. England and America forced  opium on China in the 1840s. How many people died or had their lives destroyed by opium?

[Hanseng]

On 4/22/2026 at 11:17 PM, Hanseng said:

fentany

fentanyl

[phkrause]

13 minutes ago, Hanseng said:

fentanyl

I figured that! 👍