By Grace Inc. Counseling Services: DEA registration order
Oct 11, 2026 edition · GC-2026-0184 · Published 2026-10-11 · Version 4 · Final
DEA revoked By Grace Inc. Counseling Services’ registration after sustained recordkeeping failures and materially false registration applications. The agency did not sustain a separate state-authority allegation. The final order, involving a Baltimore narcotic treatment program, is effective November 2.
What happened
DEA’s final decision revokes registration RB0369733 issued to By Grace Inc. Counseling Services, a Baltimore narcotic treatment program, and denies pending renewal, modification and additional Maryland registration applications. The order was signed September 25, published October 2 and is effective November 2, 2026. The agency describes recurring inventory errors over several years, controlled-substance overages and shortages, improperly combined records, and errors in DEA 222 forms and powers of attorney. Its findings go beyond an isolated clerical mistake.
DEA also found materially false registration applications involving an undisclosed controlled-substance conviction of the owner. That was an additional ground for the decision, alongside recordkeeping deficiencies. By contrast, the agency did not sustain the government’s allegation that the program ordered controlled substances without state authority, citing inadequate notice and insufficient evidence. That distinction matters when identifying the actual failures established by the order. Programs reviewing their own controls should connect dispensing and inventory records, authorized ordering and accurate officer-history disclosures, and retain evidence that corrective measures address the specific deficiencies.
Scope and timing
- Authority status
- Final
- Applicability
- Operationally relevant
- Audience
- Health systems, Provider networks
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Recorded date
- 2026-11-02
- Date type
- effective
Why it matters
The action identifies a control failure relevant to provider, payer or vendor oversight. Its procedural status must be kept separate from any allegation.
Recommended action
Reconcile dispensing and inventory records, DEA 222 forms and powers of attorney. Verify registration disclosures independently and retain evidence of corrective controls; distinguish sustained findings from the rejected state-authority allegation.
Case details
- agencies
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- entities
- By Grace Inc. Counseling Services
- action Type
- Administrative order
- event Date
- 2026-09-25
- alleged Conduct
- DEA administrative registration eligibility and public-interest findings stated in the final order.
- resolution
- Final administrative order. Effective November 2, 2026.
Operational lessons
- Check controlled-substance authority independently of professional licensure, and review counterparties implicated by the specific order.
Sources
- By Grace Inc. Counseling Services; Decision and OrderOfficial · Justice Department, Drug Enforcement Administration · 2026-10-02 · Source review 2026-10-11
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