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Drug Enforcement Administration

United States federal law enforcement agency
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Summary

Drug Enforcement Administration is a federal law enforcement agency of the United States[1]. It draws 16,934 Wikipedia views per month (federal law enforcement agency of the united states category, ranking #5 of 37).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: drug law enforcement[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: intelligence agency[5]
  • Founder: Richard Nixon[6]
  • Headquarters location: Arlington[7]
  • Commons category: Drug Enforcement Administration[8]
  • Inception: July 1, 1973[9]
  • Parent organization or unit: United States Department of Justice[10]
  • Official website: https://www.dea.gov/[11], https://www.dea.gov/es[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Drug Enforcement Administration[13]
  • Described at URL: https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/drug-enforcement-administration[14]
  • Employees: 10,784[15]
  • Replaces: Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement[16], Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs[17], Federal Bureau of Narcotics[18]
  • Official name: Drug Enforcement Administration[19]
  • Native label: Drug Enforcement Administration[20]
  • Position held by head of the organization: Administrator of Drug Enforcement[21]
  • Budget: 2,415,000,000 US dollars[22]
  • Social media followers: 96,766[23], 88,486[24], 107,920[25], 120,008[26]

Why It Matters

Drug Enforcement Administration has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . grid.ac. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . bizjournals.com. bizjournals.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Q104816538. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Follows → —
    Harper's tag → dea, drug-enforcement-agency
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: drug-enforcement-agency, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289932480|drug enforcement agency (#289932480)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/cata"
  2. 23d ago · 臺灣象象 · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Replaces → Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, Federal Bureau of Narcotics
    Headquarters location → Arlington
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Replaces: Federal Bureau of Narcotics"
  3. 8w ago · ThebananaMonkeys · 2026-08-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Image: DEA badge.PNG"
  4. 21w ago · Trivialist · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Founded by → —
    Official website → https://www.dea.gov/, https://www.dea.gov/es
    Harper's tag → dea, drug-enforcement-agency
    Website → —
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: dea, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289918984|dea (#289918984)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
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