{
  "id": 3789445,
  "title": "DEA Schedules Widely Available Opioid Compounds as Controlled Substances",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/dea-schedules-widely-available-opioid-compounds-as-controlled",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-27T17:58:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MedPage Today",
    "slug": "medpage-today",
    "url": "https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/opioids/122788"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "(MedPage Today) -- The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced that it issued a temporary order to schedule three opioid compounds as controlled substances. \"The DEA bases this action on a finding that placing mitragynine pseudoindoxyl...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}