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Federal opioid program
Federal law enforcement officials have announced Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (S.O.S.), a new program that seeks to reduce the supply of deadly synthetic opioids in high impact areas and to identify wholesale distribution networks and international and domestic suppliers. As part of Operation S.O.S., the Department will launch an enforcement surge in ten districts in the country with some of the highest drug overdose death rates, including the Eastern District of Tennessee. Each participating U.S. Attorney’s Office will choose a specific county and prosecute every readily provable case involving the distribution of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, regardless of drug quantity. The surge will involve a coordinated DEA Special Operations Division operation to insure that leads from street-level cases are used to identify larger scale distributors. According to U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey, statistics from the Knox County Drug Related Task Force, show in 2018 there have been 164 overdose deaths in Knox County alone. This is from only one of the 41 counties that make up the Eastern District of Tennessee. Sadly, statistics show that Tennessee, and in particular east Tennessee, has one of the highest overdose death rates in the country. The U.S. Attorney’s Office will work with our federal, state and local law enforcement partners to prosecute every readily provable case involving the distribution of synthetic opioids in Knox County, regardless of drug quantity”.
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