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Driving under the influence of drugs (DUID) is having a serious impact on roadway safety as never before. In the United States, the involvement of drug-impaired drivers in automobile crashes is at an ...
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The current opioid epidemic did not start overnight, and the situation has continued to progress significantly over the past two decades. Since the late 1990s, chiefs of police have battled this epide...
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Since its creation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has had a longstanding commitment to safeguard public safety and protect people from t...
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In 1972, a U.S. federal initiative resulting from efforts led by the White House’s Special Action Office for Drug Prevention, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (predecessor to the Bureau...
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According to a recent forecast, as many as 650,000 people in the United States will die from opioid overdoses over the next 10 years. Some 50,000 people died from opioid overdoses in 2016. When that f...
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The only viable response to drug abuse problems is now, and always will be, international in scope....
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Drug trafficking and drug abuse have always posed a challenge for law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve. We have all repeatedly borne witness to the human toll that drug abuse has ta...
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In August and September 2017, the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD) requested information from crime laboratories across the United States regarding opioids in controlled substanc...
