Please join the DEA Museum in the first of a series of presentations in the DEA Headquarters Auditorium highlighting the opening of the Museum’s new lobby exhibit: Cannabis, Coca, and Poppy: Nature’s Addictive Plants. The exhibit showcases the history, effects, science, production, and distribution of the products of these plants: Marijuana, cocaine and opium and its derivatives.
DEA Museum Fall 2009 Lecture Series:
“Heroin Trends Today”
Please join the DEA Museum in the first of a series of presentations in the DEA Headquarters Auditorium highlighting the opening of the Museum’s new lobby exhibit: Cannabis, Coca, and Poppy: Nature’s Addictive Plants. The exhibit showcases the history, effects, science, production, and distribution of the products of these plants: Marijuana, cocaine and opium and its derivatives.
Bill Mockler, retired DEA Special Agent, and Ed Beach, retired Task Force Officer, New York DEA Task Force, will present surprising facts about the provenance of U.S. heroin, heroin addicts today, and how prescription opiates play a part in their journey to addiction. Sign language interpretation will be provided.
WHERE: DEA Headquarters Auditorium, 700 Army Navy Drive, Arlington (Pentagon City), VA 22202
WHEN: Thursday, October 15, 10 a.m.
For security purposes, media reps should RSVP to 202-307-7977 or to Barbara.l.wetherell@usdoj.gov today.
The mission of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is to enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States and bring to the criminal and civil justice system of the United States, or any other competent jurisdiction, those organizations and principal members of organizations, involved in the growing, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances appearing in or destined for illicit traffic in the United States; and to recommend and support non-enforcement programs aimed at reducing the availability of illicit controlled substances on the domestic and international markets.
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