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 the early 1990s, the U.S. National Narcotics Intelligence Consumer Committee (NNICC)...

Amphetamine, METHAMPHETAMINE, and related compounds have relatively brief abuse histories, dating from the 1930s and 1940s. Similar to the other major PSYCHOMOTOR STIMULANT of abuse, CO-CAINE, the amphetamines are addictive, and a number of cycles of...

OFFICIAL NAMES: Amphetamine (Adderall), laevoamphetamine (Benzedrine), dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine), methamphetamine (Methedrine) STREET NAMES: Black dex, bens, bennies, benz, black and white, blackbirds, black bombers, black Cadillacs, black mollies,...

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 travel to reach local dealers and users. Most of the illegal drugs...

The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market consisting of the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of illegal drugs. While some drugs are legal to possess and sell, in most jurisdictions laws prohibit the trade of...

Illegal prescription drug trade growing Counterfeiters, profiteers endanger American lives By GILBERT M. GAUL AND MARY PAT FLAHERTY Washington Post Sunday, October 19, 2003 Washington -- For half a century Americans could boast of the world's safest, most tightly regulated...

Panama's drug-traffickng business has not diminished in spite of General Manuel Noriega's extradition to the US in 1990. Money-laundering, crime, and the arrest of an alleged Colombian drug lord are some of the problems that plague President Ernesto Perez Balladares. PANAMA CITY ...

In the 2000 film Traffic, Robert Wakefield is a superior court judge newly appointed to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). In one scene, Wakefield compliments the outgoing drug czar on his successes, only to receive a quizzical...

America’s “war on drugs” has cost billions of dollars annually since the early 1980s. For example, the federal government was projected to spend $16 billion to control illegal drugs in 1998, a nearly sixfold increase from the amount...

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 the risks.