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Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

A division of the U.S. Department of Justice. The DEA's role is to enforce all laws relating to controlled substances. President Richard Nixon created the agency in 1973 to establish a centralized force to fight “a war on drugs.”

10.4135/9781412972024.n805
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