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These lollipops, above, were found to contain heroin when inspected by the DEA.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a United States Department of Justice law enforcement agency tasked with suppressing the sale of recreational drugs by enforcing the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. It shares concurrent jurisdiction with the FBI in narcotics enforcement matters.

1 History

The DEA was formed from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs of the US Department of the Treasury and the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1973.

2 Organization

The DEA is headed by an Administrator appointed by the President of the United States and is approved by the US Senate. The Adminstrator is assisted by a Deputy Administrator, the Chief of Operations, the Chief Inspector, Assistant Administrators for the Operations Support Division, Intelligence Division, and Human Resources Division. Other senior staff include the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Counsel. Its headquarters is in Quantico, Virginia near the FBI Academy. It maintains its own DEA Academy also located in Quantico. It maintains 21 domestic Field Divisions with 237 Field Offices and 80 Foreign Offices in 58 countries. With a budget over two billion dollars it employs over 11,000 people to include over 5,000 Special AgentsSpecial Agent is the United States government's title for a detective or investigator of the Series 0081 in the Office of Personnel Management or OPM handbook. These personnel may be criminal or non-criminal investigators. Such persons are usually armed a.

3 Facilities

The DEA jointly runs the El Paso Intelligence CenterThis article is about the El Paso Intelligence center . For other meanings of EPIC, see EPIC. The El Paso Intelligence Center was established in 1974 for the purpose of preventing and gathering information on drug trafficking and illegal immigration, and, which plays a major role in SIGINTSIGINT stands for SIG nals INT elligence, which is intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether by radio interception or other means. It became far more central to military (and to some extent diplomatic) intelligence generally with the mech and command and control for drug and immigration enforcement along the Mexican border.

4 Narcotics Registration

The DEA has a registration system in place which authorizes medical professionals, researchers and manufacturers access to even " Schedule I" 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[1]:

• 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 " checksumThis article is about checksums calculated using addition. The term "checksum" is sometimes used in a more general sense to refer to any kind of redundancy check. In computer technology and telecommunication, a checksum is a form of redundancy check, a ve" 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