Over the last century, the Federal effort to fight illicit drug trafficking has been carried out by several agencies: FBN (Federal Bureau of Narcotics), BDAC (Bureau of Drug Abuse Control), BNDD (Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs) and the current flagship, DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration). Conventional wisdom argued that the agency best suited to solve …
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Drug Factoids – Heroin
For most of my career with the Feds, heroin was considered (to borrow an ancient FBI label) Public Enemy #1. In this century, it has lost the title to fentanyl, but for most of my time with DEA, its major focus was on heroin. The drug’s effect on humans is actually quite similar to fentanyl. …
Fentanyl – A Primer
Fentanyl is an extremely potent drug, whose legitimate uses include pain relief for cancer patients. It is one of the most potent drugs in the pharmacopeia. A usual dose of 100 micrograms or less does the trick; it would take about 10 milligrams of morphine to achieve the same result. For those who are metric …
Caveat Emptor (what you see is (often not) what you get…….)
We seem to be hearing a lot of Latin these days (quid pro quo and all that). In a past career with DEA, I was editor, for a time, of a newsletter and journal we called Microgram. We received a never ceasing flow of mail concerning bait-and-switch in the drug trade (caveat emptor, buyer beware). …
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