The 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment (NDTA) is a comprehensive strategic assessment of the threat posed to the United States by domestic and international drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit drugs. The report combines federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement reporting; public health data; open source reporting; and...

Statement before the Caucus on International Narcotics Control United States Senate for a hearing entitled “Stopping the Poison Pills: Combatting the Trafficking of Illegal Fentanyl from China”

Statement of Paul E. Knierim Deputy Chief of Operations, Office of Global Enforcement Before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Committee on Foreign Affairs U.S. House of Representatives for a hearing entitled "Tackling Fentanyl: The China Connection"

This document is an internal Drug Enforcement Administration quality system document for latent print examination. The effective period of the document is July 16, 2018 to May 3, 2020 and it is provided for informational purposes only. Any sensitive, privileged or otherwise protected information has been redacted, to include the...

This Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Intelligence Report contains new and updated information on slang terms and code words from a variety of law enforcement and open sources, and serves as an updated version to the product entitled “Drug Slang Code Words” published by the DEA in May 2017. It is...

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) New Jersey Division’s Intelligence Program conducted a bi-annual assessment of the drug threats occurring within the State of New Jersey between January and June 2017. This report highlights the strategic and significant findings regarding the illicit drug trends in the New Jersey Division’s (NJD) area...

Robert W. Patterson: Before the House Judiciary Committee U.S. House of Representatives for a Hearing Entitled “Challenges and Solutions in the Opioid Abuse Crisis”

Fentanyl is the most prevalent and the most significant synthetic opioida threat to the United States and will very likely remain the most prevalent synthetic opioid threat in the near term. The fentanyl threat remains most severe in the white powder heroin user market in the Midwest and Northeast United...

In June and July 2017, law enforcement authorities made multiple undercover purchases of crack cocaine from one dealer in Baltimore, MD. In September 2017, official laboratory results indicated that two of these purchases tested as N-ethylpentylone Hydrochloride, a synthetic cathinone (“bath salts”) derivative classified as a Schedule I Controlled Substance...

As of October 2017, a review of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS) data show that cocaine submissions indicate it is the number one seized substance by incident by law enforcement officials in South Carolina. The number of submissions has fluctuated with a high of 4,764...