Drug Enforcement Administration

Organized crime today is not your father’s godfather

The Godfather of literary and movie fame wanted to avoid trafficking in illegal drugs. The reality of organized crime in modern times is much different….

People

Cloud Exchange 2022: DEA’s Nick Ward on driving mission technology modernization

Cloud Computing

Veterans Affairs is looking at treating some mental health problems with psychedelics

Veterans Affairs

Female DEA agents will receive a settlement, three decades after filing a sex discrimination case

Workforce Rights/Governance

FILE - A young man stands in front of a shelve with hard liquor at a beverage market in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany, June 15, 2007. The German government's drugs czar has proposed raising the age when people can buy beer and win from 16 to 18, and cracking down on alcohol and tobacco advertising. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Vets suing Army for not recognizing substance abuse disorders in discharges

Federal Newscast

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon announced the launch of Operation Crystal Shield at a news conference in Atlanta on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. Federal authorities say they are targeting methamphetamine

The DEA reopens its museum after a two year renovation

Innovation in Government

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

A cautionary tale from DEA’s plan to return to the office

Federal Report

FILE - This Aug. 29, 2018, file photo shows an arrangement of prescription oxycodone pills in New York. U.S. health officials Tuesday, April 9. 2019, warned doctors not to abruptly stop prescribing opioid painkillers to patients who are taking them for chronic pain ailments, such as backaches. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

The DEA keeps an eye on a problem that predated the pandemic, and will be here long after

Workforce

Does federal customer experience extend to prisoners?

Federal Report

DEA Education Foundation Youth Dance Program

DEA has a foundation, and it’s been up to some star-studded work

Workforce

White House announces nominations for leadership roles at DEA, Army, and others

Federal Newscast

‘Smart IT investments’ carried pandemic relief, but $9B TMF plan falls apart in Congress

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) says agencies relied on “smart IT investments” to disburse COVID-19 pandemic stimulus, but the Senate is passing on plans to…

IT Modernization

The American flag flies outside of the Justice Department building, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

DOJ investigators have mixed reviews of agency’s COVID-19 response, IG says

Employees within the Justice Department’s investigative subcomponents offered mixed reviews of their organizations’ responses to the COVID-19, according…

Workforce

Sammies finalist helped multi-agency investigation to tackle opioids in Appalachia

Workforce

Last year a team of federal investigators, as part of the national effort to mitigate the opioid crisis, indicted 73 licensed medical practitioners for enabling the addiction crisis in Appalachia.