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Founder of Seisint Inc Implicated As Ex-Smuggler and Quits Job (August 29, 2003)
...Online Inc., bought him out for $147 million in 1999 after the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration suspended its contracts over Asher's past. Seisint has a $1.6 millio... -
Big Brother Wants to Monitor Your Internet Activity (March 14, 2004)
...t communications technologies, lawyers for the Justice Department, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration said their proposals "require immediate attention and resolution" by th... -
DOJ's Dot-Narc Rave Strategy (March 13, 2002)
...ew Orleans, Louisiana, rave promoters who were brought up on charges after Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided a party looking for evidence of drug use — evidence... -
Federal Information Collecting May Be Surpassed by States (August 6, 2003)
...,000 systems," he said. "It would just take you forever." In 1999, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI suspended information service contracts with an earlier Ash... -
US Wants to Tap Internet Voice Conversations (January 8, 2004)
...avoid lawfully authorized surveillance." The letter also was signed by the Drug Enforcement Administration. This is not the first time the Bush administration has expressed co... -
Lagging Efforts to Fight Terrorist Financing (December 12, 2003)
...oney to Afghanistan, the report said. And in Lebanon, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration ran into a dead end in investigating possible ties between drug smuggle... -
Turkey, Drugs, Faustian Alliances & Sibel Edmonds (June 28, 2004)
...e United Arab Emirates, and Oman. Asa Hutchinson, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, testified in October 2001 that DEA intelligence confirmed the presence... -
The Recipe For Ricin: Examining the Legend (February 20, 2004)
...ployees of government agencies like the Department of the Treasury and the Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as others. The Feds, as the small group was sometimes called,... -
Ashcroft's America (July 5, 2002)
...c is completely unrelated to the war on terrorism. He?s spearheaded the Drug Enforcement Administration in actions against people in states that have passed liberal laws on me... - 2 letters and 7 digits
- the first letter is either an "A" or a "B"
- the second letter is the initial of the registrant's last name
- the seventh digit is a "" that is calculated as:
- add together the first, third and fifth digits
- add together the second, fourth and sixth digits and multiply the sum by 2
- add the above 2 numbers
- the last digit (the one's value) of this last sum is used as the seventh digit in the DEA number
- DEA official web site
- The History of the DEA from 1973 to 1998:
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Drug Enforcement Administration
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a agency tasked with suppressing the sale of of abuse and enforcing the of . In the act, Congress divided proscribed substances into five schedules (enforced by the DEA) based on a number of factors, including DEA's perceived potential for abuse and whether the Department of Health and Human Services recognizes any legitimate medical uses for the drug. Penalties for possession of illegal drugs vary according to the schedule of a substance.
The DEA has been criticized for placing drugs which many researchers regard as having potential medical uses, such as , on highly restrictive schedules, even over the objections of many experts in the field of and . Critics claim that such decisions are motivated primarily by political factors stemming from the US government's , and that many potential benefits of such substances remain unknown due to the difficulty of conducting scientific research.
Others criticize the very existence of the DEA and the War on Drugs as inimical to the concept of ; arguing that adults should have the right to put whatever substances they choose into their own bodies.
The DEA has a registration system in place to authorize medical professionals, researchers and manufacturers access to even "" 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:
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