Drugs News
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Vienna -
Global cocaine production reached an all-time high in 2017, breaking the previous year's record by 25 percent, the UN drugs and crime agency said Wednesday in its annual report, as production soars in post-conflict Colombia.
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New York -
US authorities said Tuesday they had seized around 16 tonnes of cocaine with an estimated street value of over $1 billion in a historic drug bust aboard a ship at the port of Philadelphia.
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Mexico -
A judge in Mexico sentenced drug kingpin Servando Gomez to 55 years in prison on Monday following his conviction for kidnapping, authorities said.
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As dusk falls along the Mekong River, a nightly dance begins between Thai border security and Laos drug gangs now using drones, scouts and a pool of poor fishermen to shift record amounts of meth into Thailand.
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Manila -
The Philippines on Saturday rejected a call for an independent United Nations probe into Manila's alleged human rights violations, describing it as interference in the affairs of the Asian nation.
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Sydney -
Australian police have seized a record US$840 million worth of the drug "ice" hidden in stereo speakers shipped from Thailand, officials said Friday.Australian Border Force agents found 1.6 tonnes of methylamphetamine and 37 kilograms (81.
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Apo -
European authorities are seizing record quantities of increasingly pure cocaine, the EU drugs agency said in a report published Thursday, also warning of a growing use of synthetic drugs and dealing via smartphones.
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El Dorado -
Three synthetic drug labs producing an estimated $160 million worth of methamphetamine were dismantled in Mexico on Tuesday, in what officials called one of the country's biggest blows to drug trafficking this year.
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Arauca -
Every day, hundreds of Venezuelans cross the Arauca river into Colombia in search of a better life -- but first, they must run a gauntlet of rebels, drug runners and land mines.
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Yangon -
A Myanmar policeman has been arrested after switching 64 kilograms (140 pounds) of seized crystal meth with salts loosely resembling the party drug known as "ice", officials said Tuesday.
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Mexico -
Despite calling himself a champion of migrants' rights, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has actually stepped up detentions of Central Americans crossing Mexico -- just not enough to please Donald Trump.
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Mexico -
President Donald Trump says China's new ban on all fentanyl-related substances will be a "game-changer" in the deadly US opioid crisis, but experts warn it may just shift production elsewhere -- particularly Mexico.
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Madrid -
A policeman was killed on Thursday as he chased a car with a French number plate carrying hashish in a drug trafficking hotspot in southern Spain, police said.
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A passenger on-board a flight from Mexico City has died after inadvertently ingesting 246 packets of cocaine. The high level of drug consumption triggered a cerebral edema.
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Apo -
Colombia's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the "immediate release" of a former rebel leader accused of drug trafficking and shot down revisions to the country's peace accord in a double blow for President Ivan Duque.
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Apo -
Colombia's Supreme Court ordered Wednesday the "immediate release" of former FARC guerrilla leader Jesus Santrich, who is wanted by the United States for drug trafficking.
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Chicago -
The first civil trial that could hold a drug company responsible for the US opioid epidemic began Tuesday in Oklahoma -- a landmark case that could impact thousands of others like it.
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Chicago -
The first civil trial that could end up holding a drug company responsible for the US opioid epidemic began Tuesday in Oklahoma, in a landmark case that might impact thousands of others like it.
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Dhaka -
Growing numbers of outcast Rohingya refugees are risking their lives by crossing the closed Myanmar-Bangladesh border with narcotics pills packed into their stomachs, police said Tuesday.
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The Government of British Columbia has announced a program in which patients taking originator biologic drugs will be "switched" or transitioned by their clinicians to a biosimilar biologic drug within a six-month period.
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Beirut -
Lebanon has arrested a Saudi man at Beirut airport carrying about 10 kilograms of the amphetamine-like drug captagon, said authorities cited in local media.
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Madrid -
Over 300 police officers swooped Wednesday against hashish smuggling in southern Spain, the main gateway into Europe for the drug, the latest in a string of police stings in the region.
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Mataram -
Indonesia on Monday sentenced a French drug smuggler to death by firing squad, in a shock verdict after prosecutors had asked for a long prison term.
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Mataram -
An Indonesian court sentenced Frenchman Felix Dorfin to death for drug smuggling on Monday, in a shock verdict after prosecutors asked for a 20-year jail term.
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Apo -
A former left-wing guerrilla leader wanted by the United States for drug trafficking was hospitalized in police custody Saturday with what authorities said were self-inflicted arm wounds.
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Washington -
The United States on Friday sanctioned a Mexican judge and a former state governor for corruption and maintaining links with drug cartels.
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Hanoi -
Vietnamese police have seized half a tonne of ketamine worth $21 million in Ho Chi Minh City, a key transit hub that has seen record busts of synthetic drugs in recent weeks as narcotics gangs use its ports and air links to shuttle drugs across the reg...
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New York -
Lawyers for convicted Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman have denounced his prison conditions and made several requests, including more water and fresh air and earplugs to allow him to sleep.
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Bejing -
A Chinese court sentenced a second Canadian man to death for drug trafficking on Tuesday, eliciting a rebuke from Canada's foreign minister, amid diplomatic tensions between Ottawa and Beijing.
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Iran -
A vast field of towering white poppies sways gently in the breeze, silky petals sometimes tumbling to the ground, a visible marker of the resilience of Afghanistan's lucrative opium trade.
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File photo: Cannabis setup inside a residential premises that was discovered by UK police officers. West Midlands Police
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$2.5 million of cocaine was fished out of Florida waters in June 2013. Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office
File photo: The shocking death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from a suspected drugs overdose has spotlighted a growing epidemic of heroin use across the United States, officials warn. Fadel Senna, AFP/File
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Supporters of Drug Kingpin Christopher Dudus Coke have set fire to police stations, exchanged fire, throw Molotov cocktails and taken over the streets in one section of Kingston Jamaica in support of Dudus. Jamaica News Media
File photo: 158 arrested in Utah's largest ever ICE-led gang enforcement action - 8/19/2010 ICE
Merck & Co. posted a revenue decline as generic competition and currency fluctuations hurt its results.
Scientists at Imperial College London have gained a unique insight into how LSD affects the human brain. Imperial/Beckley Foundation
A line of crystal meth Via Flickr user INeedCoffee.com
Spanish police seized 550 kilos of cocaine from a sailboat and arrested two French nationals and one Spanish man. National Police
Liquid methamphetamines are transported in anything the cartels can get away with using. This is a file photo courtesy of the U.S. Border Patrol. U.S. Border Patrol
Hydromorphone has a variety of medical uses but can cause death when combined with other drugs. Vaprotan
Spacefill model of the Cholesterol molecule RedAndr
Homeopathy watching horrors of Allopathy Alexander Beydeman (1826—1869)
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