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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Amphetamines
OFFICIAL NAMES: Amphetamine (Adderall), laevoamphetamine (Benzedrine), dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine), methamphetamine (Methedrine)
STREET NAMES: Black dex, bens, bennies, benz, black and ...
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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 c...
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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 ...
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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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Amphetamine Epidemics
Drug Producers
Amphetamines
Drug Trafficking
