U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday it seized a case of Tramadol pain pills with an estimated street value at $150,000.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Cincinnati CBP officers seized a shipment that contained some 30,000 Tramadol tablets. Photo courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/p>\n
Dec. 8 (UPI) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday it seized a case of Tramadol pain pills with an estimated street value at $150,000.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Cincinnati CBP officers seized a shipment that contained some 30,000 Tramadol tablets, officials said.\n<\/p>\n
The Tramadol pain killer a schedule IV substance under the Controlled Substance Act due to its potential for abuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Most people hear about CBP seizing narcotics shipments,” said Director of Field Operations LaFonda D. Sutton-Burke, Chicago Field Office.<\/p>\n “However, shipments of illegal prescription pills are very dangerous too,” Sutton-Burked said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n CBP agents routinely screen international passengers and cargo at ports of entry nationwide for narcotics, weapons and other U.S.-prohibited items.<\/p>\n A shipment from Barbados bound for St. Kitts-Nevis was intercepted and inspected for clearance in the United States.<\/p>\n Officers discovered small boxes inside containing 30 push pill tabs each totaling 30,000 tablets of 50mg Tramadol.<\/p>\n CBP’s Chicago field director confirmed the pills were “not regulated by the FDA.”<\/p>\n Tramadol is a prescribed medication to relieve moderate to nearly severe pain and, similar to opioid analgesics, it works by altering the brain’s perception of pain.\n<\/p>\n It’s frequently abused in narcotic addiction<\/a>, chronic pain patients<\/a> and healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n Federal officials urged international buyers to verify purchases and ensure imports comply with all state and U.S. regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday it seized a case of Tramadol pain pills with an estimated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,61,60,371,38,425],"class_list":{"0":"post-182272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-u-s"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}