Amphetamine Epidemics
Amphetamine, METHAMPHETAMINE, and related compounds have relatively brief abuse histories, dating from the 1930s and 1940s. Similar to the other major PSYCHOMOTOR STIMULANT of ab...
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International Drug Supply Systems
The majority of illicit drugs consumed in the United States are of foreign origin—including all the COCAINE and HEROIN and significant amounts of MARIJUANA. In...
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Mexico as Drug Source
Drug control in Mexico is unique—the reason both for Mexico's paradoxical success as well as for its ongoing difficulty in managing the issue. Believing that destru...
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Drug Producers
At least 80 percent of all illegal drugs used in the United States, measured by U.S. dollar value, start out in other countries. This includes all of the cocaine and heroin, and much of...
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Drug Traffickers
Drug trafficking is the movement of illegal drugs from one location to a final destination where they will be sold to users. A drug-transit country is one through which drug shipments...
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Law and Policy: Controls on Drug Trafficking
The United States is one of the largest and most profitable drug markets in the world. According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Americans s...
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Drug Trade
Asia has a long history of dealing with psychoactive substances. Many of them have existed from time immemorial all over the continent. Various places established traditional uses for some ...
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Amphetamines
OFFICIAL NAMES: Amphetamine (Adderall), laevoamphetamine (Benzedrine), dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine), methamphetamine (Methedrine)
STREET NAMES: Black dex, bens, bennies, benz, black and ...
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Drug trafficking has become an increasingly growing problem in the world today; more people are buying, selling and using drugs. People think it is a fast and easy way to get money, not knowing all th...
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Bogota (dpa) - In the worst carnage in Colombia in months, leftist
rebels set roadside bombs that killed 19 police officers and soldiers
over 24 hours in opposite corners of...
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Manila (dpa) - Five foreigners and two Filipinos were arrested
Tuesday in separate raids on suspected illegal drug factories in the
Philippines, officials said.
...
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Montebello, Canada (dpa) - North American leaders Tuesday
described a world of ever-increasing global economic competition, and
said they were determined to make sure the co...
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Sydney (dpa) - Australia is close to a prisoner-exchange deal with
Indonesia but officials stressed Tuesday it would not result in the
instant repatriation of jailed drug sm...
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Mexico City (dpa) - Five members of a Gulf Cartel cell which
illegally sent drugs to the United States were arrested in
northeastern Mexico, Mexican authorities said Tuesday...
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(Corrects date bodies were found to Friday from Thursday in
paragraph 2) By Allan Dowd SURREY, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canadian
investigators said Saturday they do not know the motive for
the...
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SURREY, British Columbia (Reuters) - Two of six
victims of what Canadian police called a "cowardly" killing
died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time,
police and relatives of the...
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Amphetamine Epidemics
Drug Producers
Drug Trade
Amphetamines
Drug Trafficking
Rebels kill 19 police, soldiers, with roadside bombs
