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These lollipops, above, were found to contain heroin when inspected by the DEA.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a United States Department of Justice law enforcement agency tasked with suppressing the sale of recreational drugs by enforcing the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. It shares concurrent jurisdiction with the FBI in narcotics enforcement matters.
The DEA was formed from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs of the US Department of the Treasury and the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1973.
The DEA is headed by an Administrator appointed by the President of the United States and is approved by the US Senate. The Adminstrator is assisted by a Deputy Administrator, the Chief of Operations, the Chief Inspector, Assistant Administrators for the Operations Support Division, Intelligence Division, and Human Resources Division. Other senior staff include the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Counsel. Its headquarters is in Quantico, Virginia near the FBI Academy. It maintains its own DEA Academy also located in Quantico. It maintains 21 domestic Field Divisions with 237 Field Offices and 80 Foreign Offices in 58 countries. With a budget over two billion dollars it employs over 11,000 people to include over 5,000 Special AgentsSpecial Agent is the United States government's title for a detective or investigator of the Series 0081 in the Office of Personnel Management or OPM handbook. These personnel may be criminal or non-criminal investigators. Such persons are usually armed a.
The DEA jointly runs the El Paso Intelligence CenterThis article is about the El Paso Intelligence center . For other meanings of EPIC, see EPIC. The El Paso Intelligence Center was established in 1974 for the purpose of preventing and gathering information on drug trafficking and illegal immigration, and, which plays a major role in SIGINTSIGINT stands for SIG nals INT elligence, which is intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether by radio interception or other means. It became far more central to military (and to some extent diplomatic) intelligence generally with the mech and command and control for drug and immigration enforcement along the Mexican border.
The DEA has a registration system in place which authorizes medical professionals, researchers and manufacturers access to even " Schedule I" drugs. Authorized registrants receive a so called "DEA Number" which is to be solely used for tracking controlled substances. The DEA number, however, is often used by the industry as a general "prescriber" number as a unique identifier for anyone who can prescribe medication.
A valid DEA number consists of[1]:
The DEA has been criticized for placing drugs which some researchers regard as having potential medical uses, such as MDMA, and ibogaineIbogaine is a psychoactive indole alkaloid derived from the rootbark of an African plant, Tabernanthe iboga''. Used as a part of the bwiti ceremony in Central Africa, specifically Gabon and Cameroon. In recent years it has been noted for its ability to tr on highly restrictive schedules, even over the objections of some experts in the field of pharmacologyPharmacology (Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos''is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. If these substances have medicinal properties, they are referred to as pharmaceuticals . The field encompasses drug compo and medicineSee drugs, medication, and pharmacology for substances that treat patients. This article is about medical practice. Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with restoring and maintaining health and wellness. Broadly, it is the practical science o. Critics claim that such decisions are motivated primarily by political factors stemming from the US government's War on Drugs, and that many potential benefits of such substances remain unknown due to the difficulty of conducting scientific research. There are also some scheduled substances that are extremely rare and no reasoning as to why they are scheduled could be found. This includes the drug U4EA and bufotenine. The DEA is also criticized for not scheduling dangerous drugs seldom used , such as datura, and for being extremely slow in the scheduling popular analogues of existing scheduled substances, such as DPT, 2C-T-7, and GHB analogues.
The DEA is also criticized for allegedly focusing only on the operations that it can seize the most money from, namely the organized crime cross border trafficking of heroin and cocaine. Some critics say that, based on order of popularity, the DEA should be most focused on marijuana or based on order of danger, the DEA should be most focused on locally freebased "crack" cocaine. Based on order of opiate popularity, the DEA should focus much more on prescription opiates used recreationally, which critics contend is far more widespread then heroin use.
Others, such as the ACLU criticize the very existence of the DEA and the War on Drugs as inimical to the concept of civil liberties; by arguing that adults should have the right to put whatever substances they choose into their own bodies.
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