---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 855"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "855"
heading: "Alternative fine"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/855"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Control and Enforcement"
  - "Part D — Offenses and Penalties"
---

# §855. Alternative fine


In lieu of a fine otherwise authorized by this part, a defendant who derives profits or other proceeds from an offense may be fined not more than twice the gross profits or other proceeds.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 415, as added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 2302, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2193.)