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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s website for professionals working to prevent drug abuse among college students has received a Blue Pencil Award of Excellence by the National Association of Government Communicators. In July 2017, DEA launched www.campusdrugprevention.gov to support drug abuse

The Arkansas Municipal League at its 84th Convention, held June 13-15 in Little Rock, honored Arkansas Drug Director Kirk Lane with the John Woodruff “City Above Self” Award. The award is presented to a person who has provided lasting benefits

More than 100 lives have been saved this year by the Arkansas Naloxone Project, which provides first responders naloxone toolkits to reverse an opioid overdose. Arkansas Drug Director Kirk Lane said that many of the 102 lives saved this year

U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned nine (9) online networks – operating 53 websites – to stop illegally marketing “unapproved and misbranded” opioid medications, including tramadol and oxycodone, which are shipped through mailing services. The FDA outlined in warning letters

(photo is courtesy of the Association of Arkansas Counties) Arkansas Drug Director Kirk Lane encouraged state coroners to adopt a new death investigation reporting system called MDI (Medicolegal Death Investigation) Log program at the Arkansas Coroners’ Association 2018 Symposium. The