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The Opioid Crisis and Federal Criminal Prosecution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Rachel L. Rothberg  and
Kate Stith
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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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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 46 , Issue 2: Law and the Opioid Crisis: An Inter-Disciplinary Examination , Summer 2018 , pp. 292 - 313
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2018

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