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72 Dep't of Just. J. Fed. L. & Prac. 19 (2024)
The Changing Face of Drug Trafficking: The Dynamic World of Transnational Organized Crime and the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section's Special Operations Response

handle is hein.journals/usab72 and id is 23 raw text is: The Changing Face of Drug Trafficking: The Dynamic World of Transnational Organized Crime and the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section's Special Operations Response Leonard H. LeVine, Jr. Deputy Chief for Special Operations Criminal Division Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section I. Introduction For over 30 years, the men and women comprising the Department of Justice's (Department's) Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section (NDDS) have adapted to the dynamic changes of international narcotics traffick- ing. NDDS keenly focuses on the investigation and prosecution of the most significant national and transnational drug trafficking threats im- pacting the United States. NDDS plays a critical role in the support, co- ordination, and deconfliction of international narcotics investigations and prosecutions being conducted by the Department and the United States Attorneys' Offices. Unprecedented challenges face the United States, central being a drug overdose epidemic estimated to kill an average of 300 Americans daily.' NDDS employs attorneys who are uniquely embedded with inter-agency 1 A July 2023 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report showed 109,940 predicted overdose deaths in a 12-month period ending in February 2023. The majority of deaths, the Report noted, stemmed from victims' use of illicit synthetic drugs, such as clan- destinely manufactured fentanyl and methamphetamine, often combining such with other drugs, like cocaine and heroin. See Press Release, The White House, Dr. Rahul Gupta Releases Statement on CDC's New Overdose Death Data Showing a Full Year of Flattening Overdose Deaths (Jul. 12, 2023). DOJ Journal of Federal Law and Practice March 2024 19

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