The Opioid Crisis and Federal Criminal Prosecution.

J Law Med Ethics

Rachel L. Rothberg received her B.A. from Yale College and will receive her J.D. from Yale Law School in May 2019. Kate Stith, J.D., M.P.P., is the Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She received her B.A. from Dartmouth College, and her M.P.P. and J.D. from Harvard University.

Published: June 2018

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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http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073110518782936DOI Listing

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