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Attorney General Highlights Progress, Makes New Recommendations for Combating Delaware’s Heroin and Opioid Addiction Crisis

New recommendations include a focus on private insurance and Medicaid payment for substance abuse treatment and expanded use of prescription drug monitoring database Attorney General Matt Denn on Wednesday reviewed the state’s progress toward fulfilling goals that he outlined a year ago to address Delaware’s drug abuse epidemic, and outlined the additional steps that the […]



Joint Investigation – DSP and DOJ Charge 13 in Operation “Duck Hunt”

Kent and Sussex County- On May 11th 2016, members of the Delaware State Police Sussex Drug Unit (SDU), Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE), and the Sussex County Attorney General’s Office concluded a two year long investigation of a criminal organization which engaged in large scale heroin distribution and money laundering. A total of thirteen agencies […]



AG Denn Offers Comments on Federal Opioid Prescribing Guidelines

Attorney General Matt Denn today offered support to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and its proposed guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. In August of last year, Denn released his own plan to address substance use disorders in Delaware, which included a proposal to more tightly regulate the steps that health […]



46 Criminal Cases Against Members of Heroin Enterprise Successfully Prosecuted

“Operation Son Sun” investigation concludes with convictions of leaders of one of Delaware’s largest heroin trafficking organizations. Joined by the local and federal law enforcement agencies who successfully worked together to bring down one of the largest heroin trafficking organizations in Delaware history, Attorney General Matt Denn announced Thursday that the prosecutions of “Operation Son […]



White House Officials in Delaware to Announce Funding to Fight Addiction Epidemic

Building on ongoing efforts in the state to address the addiction epidemic, Governor Markell was joined by White House officials to announce federal funding to support a new initiative that will partner law enforcement officers and public health officials to address heroin and prescription drug abuse.






 Pages Tagged With: "Heroin"

Attorney General Highlights Progress, Makes New Recommendations for Combating Delaware’s Heroin and Opioid Addiction Crisis

New recommendations include a focus on private insurance and Medicaid payment for substance abuse treatment and expanded use of prescription drug monitoring database Attorney General Matt Denn on Wednesday reviewed the state’s progress toward fulfilling goals that he outlined a year ago to address Delaware’s drug abuse epidemic, and outlined the additional steps that the […]



Joint Investigation – DSP and DOJ Charge 13 in Operation “Duck Hunt”

Kent and Sussex County- On May 11th 2016, members of the Delaware State Police Sussex Drug Unit (SDU), Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE), and the Sussex County Attorney General’s Office concluded a two year long investigation of a criminal organization which engaged in large scale heroin distribution and money laundering. A total of thirteen agencies […]



AG Denn Offers Comments on Federal Opioid Prescribing Guidelines

Attorney General Matt Denn today offered support to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and its proposed guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. In August of last year, Denn released his own plan to address substance use disorders in Delaware, which included a proposal to more tightly regulate the steps that health […]



46 Criminal Cases Against Members of Heroin Enterprise Successfully Prosecuted

“Operation Son Sun” investigation concludes with convictions of leaders of one of Delaware’s largest heroin trafficking organizations. Joined by the local and federal law enforcement agencies who successfully worked together to bring down one of the largest heroin trafficking organizations in Delaware history, Attorney General Matt Denn announced Thursday that the prosecutions of “Operation Son […]



White House Officials in Delaware to Announce Funding to Fight Addiction Epidemic

Building on ongoing efforts in the state to address the addiction epidemic, Governor Markell was joined by White House officials to announce federal funding to support a new initiative that will partner law enforcement officers and public health officials to address heroin and prescription drug abuse.