The Inspector General found that the DEA failed to develop a comprehensive strategy to address the crisis.
The Inspector General found that the rate of opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. grew, on average, by8% per year from 1999 to 2013 and then dramatically increased to, on average, 71% per year from 2013 to 2017. : The Drug Enforcement Agency was slow to respond to the opioid epidemic and never developed a nationwide comprehensive strategy to address the crisis, the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General found.
It wasn’t until 2017 that the DEA reduced production quotas by 25%, and in 2018 the quota was further reduced by 6%. Though the DEA has “recently taken steps to address the opioid epidemic,” more work remains, the report said. The DEA said it will begin to develop a national prescription opioid enforcement strategy in response to the report.
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