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. 2018 Jun;46(2):292-313.
doi: 10.1177/1073110518782936.

The Opioid Crisis and Federal Criminal Prosecution

Rachel L Rothberg  1 , Kate Stith  1
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The Opioid Crisis and Federal Criminal Prosecution

Rachel L Rothberg et al. J Law Med Ethics. 2018 Jun.

Abstract

This article examines how federal law enforcement has responded to the opioid epidemic nationally and in a variety of locales. We focus in depth on two initiatives, including prosecution in opioid-death cases, undertaken by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Connecticut.

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