A new report from the Justice Department’s inspector general found that despite growing evidence that opioids were being overprescribed and abused, the Drug Enforcement Administration increased oxycodone production quotas by 400% between 2002 and 2013.
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The report on the DEA’s response to the increase in opioid abuse in the United States said that, from 1999 to 2013, opioid-related deaths grew by about 8%. From 2013 to 2017, those deaths escalated by about 70%, according to the report. The report also found that the DEA failed to capture sufficient data to detect emerging drug trends or suspicious orders in a timely manner, which may have contributed to its “overall” insufficient response to the crisis.The report makes nine recommendations to improve the DEA’s prosecution and regulatory efforts “to prevent a similar healthcare crisis from occurring in the future,” Horowitz said.
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