Quotes About DEA

In a dream world if I wasn't a scaredy cat, I'd work for the FBI or something like that. That's always been a dream of mine since I was a child, to work for the FBI or DEA or something cool like that.

The most ubiquitous form on the mainland is crystal, which is often manufactured with such ingredients as decongestants and brake cleaner in what the DEA has called "Beavis and Butt-head" labs in homes and garages. Mobile, or "box," labs in campers and vans, and labs in motels, have been discovered in every state. In 2006, Bill Maher quipped, "If Americans get any dumber about science, they won't even be able to make their own crystal meth.

I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.

For the antiquarian Cornelius Labeo, Bona Dea was identified with the Earth, Maia, Fauna, Fatua or Ops (Macr., S, 1, 12, 21). The celebration was performed pro populo - for the safety and well-being of the Roman people.

brothers and the Saints and the shooting. "Mitts Vasquez had been a member of the Saints before it collapsed." She explained why that was important, and that the Saints had worked for Nicole Rollins when she was still DEA. That it

In 1993, three years before OxyContin came out, the DEA allowed pharmaceutical companies to manufacture 3,520 kilograms of oxycodone. In 2007, the DEA signed off on the production of seventy thousand kilograms of oxycodone. Almost twenty times the amount manufactured just fourteen years earlier. Twenty times.

And it wasn't just oxycodone. Between 1996 and 2007, the DEA had nearly quadrupled the production of hydrocodone, allowed manufacturers to produce almost ten times the amount of fentanyl, and hiked the quota of hydromorphone by four and a half times. Despite its impact on public health, the quota-setting process was conducted in secret.

In 2010, ninety of the top one hundred oxycodone-purchasing doctors in the country lived in Florida. By 2014, the DEA said, the state contained only one. The number of oxycodone pills shipped to Florida dropped from 650 million in 2010 to 313 million in 2013.

the manufacturing companies keep asking the DEA for permission to make more pills, and the DEA keeps granting it.

At $75 per appointment, South Florida Pain was seeing enough patients to pay doctors between $2,000 to $4,000 a day. Plus $1,000 cash a week for the use of their DEA registration number to order drugs.

Four of the doctors at American Pain were among the top nine physician purchasers of oxycodone in the United States, according to the DEA, which meant that together, they were a juggernaut. A

By the height of the state's pill mill rush, Florida doctors were purchasing nine times more oxycodone than doctors in other states. That's nine times more than the other forty-nine states combined. In one six-month period, according to DEA records, Florida doctors bought 41.2 million doses while every other physician in the country collectively purchased 4.8 million doses.

Front-line officials, including DEA agents, border patrol and other homeland-security professionals, should remind Mr. Trump how important Mexico's assistance is in achieving his national-security goals.

The CIA in its pursuit of intelligence and influence, often courts the same powerful figures [DEA] pursued as criminals . . . and intelligence wins precedence over law enforcement. The highly connected tuxedo-clad criminal is left in place to provide intelligence to the United States—and drugs to its citizens. —James Mills, The Underground Empire

New Rule: If we want to find a place to cut government waste, we must start with the DEA rubber duck. Yes, on the DEA's website you can buy a rubber ducky with a DEA badge and a cop's hat. Which I recommend doing, because they're a great place to hide your weed.

The knife in his boot and the Smith & Wesson strapped to his ribs had been enough to get him through the past ten years flying intercept missions with the DEA into South America, breaking up the drug trade. Surely they would be enough to see him through this little exercise in neighborhood push and shove. But just as surely, he didn't want to talk about them.

Listen, when the president of the United States says your name in anger, you go through the deepest background check imaginable. The "Alphabet Boys" all develop files on you: FBI, DEA, ATF, IRS. I mean, the feds want to know every goddamn thing about you.

Between 1994 and 2015, the quota of oxycodone that the DEA permitted to be legally manufactured was raised thirty-six times. A subsequent report by the inspector general of the Justice Department criticized the DEA for being "slow to respond to the dramatic increase in opioid abuse.