Compliance and Enforcement Programs of the Drug Enforcement Administration (From Problems of Drug Dependence, 1980 - NIDA Research Monograph 34, 1981, P 27-35, Louis S Harris, ed.)

• NCJ Number: 100760
• Author(s): R W Buzzeo
• Date Published: 1981
• Length: 9 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Presentation
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This paper highlights the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)'s compliance and enforcement activities, particularly in the areas of cooperative efforts with States and professional licensing boards.

Abstract

DEA's mission is to enforce the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, designed to improve the administration and regulation of manufacturing, distributing, and dispensing of controlled substances by providing a closed system for legitimate handlers of these drugs. This is done through registration requirements, import and export monitoring, voluntary compliance guidelines, scheduling, quotas, regulatory investigations, State assistance programs, pharmacy theft-prevention measures, and the use of computerized information systems to aid in detecting potential abuses and problems. Such activities are doing much to curb retail drug diversion. Additional areas in which DEA is focusing its efforts include the control of dextropropoxyphene used in drug detoxification and maintenance programs, seizures of clandestine laboratories, prevention of the international diversion of legitimate pharmaceuticals, and control of the influx of Southwest Asian heroin.