DEA Issues Letter to E-Commerce Companies on the Sale of Pill Presses Used to Make Fentanyl Pills

Shared from the DEA WASHINGTON – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration today issued a letter to e-commerce companies regarding the sale of pill presses.  As regulated entities under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), e-commerce platforms are generally required to comply with CSA recordkeeping, identification, and reporting requirements on the distribution, importation, and exportation of pill press machines. The United States is in the midst …

Kratom

In January of this year the FDA announced that it was supporting the development, implementation, and evaluation of a human abuse potential study on the use of kratom. The FDA stated that “addressing the use of botanical Kratom is a priority as it works to characterize its abuse potential and subjective effects, given the absence of published literature and clinical …