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Cops Seize More Than $2M In Heroin And Crystal Meth

| Posted 05.20.2013 | New York
Read More: New York City Drug Bust, Miguel Mercado-Guelen, Henry Nunez, Diego Estevez, Queens Drug Ring Bust, Queens Drug Bust, Bridget Brennan, Special-Narcotics-Prosecutors-Office-New-York, Narcotics, New York News

By Bryan Graham NEW YORK CITY -- Three men were indicted on drug trafficking charges after police seized nearly 20 pounds of heroin and crystal met...

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"Crucifying" the "Other"

Eric E. Sterling | Posted 06.01.2013 | Politics
Read More: Hilary Rosen, Congress, H & M, Food Stamps, Marijuana, Economy, Foot Locker, Jobs, Ben & Jerry's, S&P 500, Wal-Mart, Ford Motor Co, Amazon, HIV/AIDS, General Motors, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Orrin Hatch, Narcotics, Maryland, Politics News
Eric E. Sterling

Imagine how many more customers companies like Wal-Mart, McDonalds, General Motors, Amazon.com, Ford, Foot Locker, H & M, or Ben & Jerry's might have if the tens of millions of people with convictions could get jobs and not have to live on food stamps!

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Raid Of The Day: Sylvia and Elsa Romero

Radley Balko | Posted 03.26.2013 | Politics
Read More: Police, Crime, Drug War, Drug Raid, Drugs, Police Militarization, Heroin, Raid of the Day, Narcotics, The Agitator, Cops, Politics News

November 2, 1992: Fordham University student Sylvia Romero and her sister Elsa were relaxing in their apartment when they heard a loud knock at the...

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Use Vice to Find Your Literary Voice

Jeff Klima | Posted 03.09.2013 | Comedy
Read More: Funny, Chris Christie, Destruction, Ken Kesey, Stephen King, Humor, Lewis Carroll, Hunter S. Thompson, Books, Hemingway, Drugs, Charles Baudelaire, Fitzgerald, Vice, James Joyce, Nightstalker, Voice, William S. Burroughs, Narcotics, Karen Carpenter, Sarcasm, Satire, Comedy News
Jeff Klima

So many writing tutorial books and articles focus on your actual writing, that most of the time, the other, dare I say, more important, aspects of your would-be author career get overlooked.

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21 Arrested In NYC Craigslist Prescription Drug Bust

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 12.11.2012 | New York
Read More: Illegal Craigslist, Craigslist Prescription, Video, Craigslist Prescription Medicine, Selling Prescription Drugs Online, Ny News, Nyu Grad Student Selling Drugs on Craigslist, Craigslist, Prescription Drugs, Prescription Medication, Narcotics Craigslist, Narcotics, Bridget Brennan, NY Crime, New York News

NEW YORK — The Craigslist ad offered black-market Percocet pills for sale but warned potential customers: "No LE please." Meaning: No law enforc...

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Narcolandia: Drugs, Guns And Art

Tanja M. Laden | Posted 09.13.2012 | Arts
Read More: Narcolandia, Drugs, Coagula Curatorial, Narcotics, Guns, Slidepollajax, Harry Ortiz Liflan, Drug Exhibition, Emelda Gutierrez, Coagula Narcolandia, Coagula Group Show, Narcolandia Exhibition, La Arts, Arts News
Tanja M. Laden

Narcolandia features a range of colorful imagery and graphic depictions of a dark subject: drugs and guns, highlighting the tacit and illicit exchange that's often overshadowed by the broader and less complicated issue of immigration.

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FBI Claims Drug Cartel Funneled Cash Through BofA

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 07.09.2012 | Business
Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drug Cartels, Money Laundering, Mexico Drug Cartels, Bank of America, Fbi, Mexico, Drugs, Bofa, Slideexpand, Mexican Drug Cartels, Video, Los Zetas, Racehorses, Narcotics, Horse Racing, Business News

Drug money has a way of sprawling. And some of it may have reached Bank of America. A federal probe into Los Zetas, a Mexican drug cartel, claims t...

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How A Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions

www.nytimes.com | Posted 08.15.2012 | World
Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Drugs Trade, Drug Traffickings, Illegal Drugs, War on Drugs, Narcotics, Cocaine, World News

One afternoon last August, at a hospital on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a former beauty queen named Emma Coronel gave birth to a pair of heiresses. ...

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Painkiller Association Closes As Senate Launches Probe

ProPublica | Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber | Posted 05.09.2012 | Business
Read More: Purdue Pharma, Charles Grassley, Johnson & Johnson, American Pain Society, Vicodin, The American Pain Foundation, Propublica, The Washington Post, Video, U.S. Senate Finance Committee, American Academy of Pain Medicine, Oxycontin, Prescription Drugs, Opana, Narcotics, Center for Practical Bioethics, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Business News

A version of this story was published in The Washington Post.As the U.S. Senate Finance Committee launched an investigation Tuesday into makers of nar...

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Woman Spends A Night In Jail After Pharmacy Trip From Hell

Loren Berlin | Posted 05.07.2012 | Home
Read More: Norco, Prescription Drugs, Narcotics, CVS Pharmacies, Narcotics-Abuse, Prescription Drug Abuse, Cvs, Ann Lenhart, Home News

When you go get a prescription filled, you typically brace for a few bad outcomes: There's the possibility your insurance won't cover your drug or you...

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3 Tons Of Cocaine Seized At Seaport

AP | Posted 04.27.2012 | Crime
Read More: Venezuelan Seaport, Video, 3 Tons of Cocaine, Drug Raid, Mexico Crime, Mexico, Drugs, Narcotics, Cocaine, Crime News

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Security forces seized 3.3 tons of cocaine during an anti-drug operation at one of Venezuela's main seaports Thursday, a top sec...

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Greece Is The Wor(l)d: 4

Alexia Amvrazi | Posted 06.06.2012 | World
Read More: Tourism, Unemployment, Homelessness, Media Sensationalism, Suicide, Financial Crisis, Drugs, Joblessness, Narcotics, News, Greece, World News
Alexia Amvrazi

In these places you may find an atmosphere of solemnity amongst locals, but prices have fallen, people are eager to offer as much as they can, and the country's natural glory shines on.

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PHOTOS: Coast Guard Nabs 2 Tons Of Cocaine, 2,040 Pounds Of Pot

Posted 02.18.2012 | Miami
Read More: Coast Guard Seizures, Miami Narcotics News, U.S. Coast Guard, Video, Caribbean Narcotics Smuggling, Coast Guard Cocaine, War on Drugs, Narcotics, Coast Guard Drug Busts, Coast Guard Marijuana, Coast Guard Narcotics, Miami News

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has been kicking ass and taking drugs (so to speak) in the Caribbean sea this winter: crew members seized 4,000 pounds of...

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Marijuana Found In Sour Candy Wrappers During Drug Bust

Posted 02.16.2012 | Crime
Read More: Drug Bust, Video, Nypd Drug Bust, Nypd, In the Ville, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Drug Bust, Brownsville Brooklyn, Narcotics, Brooklyn New York, Crime News

New York City police discovered 200 bags of crack cocaine and marijuana packaged in candy wrappers on Tuesday during a raid that ended in 14 arrests. ...

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Squatters Caught With Cocaine, Marijuana, Guns, 10 Grenades, And A Pig

Posted 04.09.2012 | Miami
Read More: Darin James Febus, Darin James Febus Arrested, Squatters Found in Home, Grenades Found in Miami Home, Miriam Scott Bailey Arrested, Miami News, 10 Grenades Found in Miami Home, Grenades, Narcotics, Miriam Scott Baily, Miami Crime, Miami News

Two accused squatters are in custody after police say a New York resident arrived at his property in Miami to find them inside his home, where respond...

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Drug War Comes To Northern Border

AP | By CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 01.21.2012 | Politics
Read More: US Canada Border, Video, Canada Border, Drug War, Drug Enforcement Administration, Northern Border, War on Drugs, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Narcotics, Drug Smuggling, Politics News

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Federal law enforcement agencies will help tribal officers obtain equipment and training on Indian lands near the U.S.-Canadian borde...

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WATCH: Police Nab 1,356 Pot Plants In 25-Lab Sweep

Posted 01.12.2012 | Miami
Read More: Pot Labs Busted in Miami-Dade, Video, Operation Machete, Miami-Dade Police Hydroponic Labs, Hydroponic Labs Bust, Drug Busts in Miami, Narcotics, Miami-Dade Police, Miami Crime, Miami News

Miami-Dade Police narcotics officers sure were busy bees on Wednesday: they simultaneously busted 25 hydroponic marijuana labs worth $4.5 million. ...

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Man Tries To Smuggle Heroin In Scotch Bottles

Posted 01.05.2012 | Travel
Read More: Global Pulse, Drugs Found in Scotch Bottles, Heroin, Narcotics, Drugs Found at Airport, Chivas, Drug Smuggling, Travel News

Wilfer Bohorquez Rojo was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport with nearly $700,000 worth of smuggled heroin on New Year's Eve, MyCentralJ...

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Lucia Graves

Marijuana, Narcotics Help Patients Reduce Chronic Pain, Study Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.08.2011 | San Francisco
Read More: Donald Abrams, Opiates, Marijuana, Aids, Chronic Pain, Medical Marijuana, Marijuana Medical Study, Ucsf, Cancer, Narcotics, Pot Pain Relief, California-Crackdown, San Francisco News

WASHINGTON -- A new study out of UC San Francisco has found that medical marijuana, combined with certain opiates, appears to be a safe and effective ...

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Holding Doctors Accountable

Diane Dimond | Posted 02.06.2012 | Crime
Read More: Michael Jackson, Dr. Conrad Murray, Anna Nicole Smith Case Lessons, Judge Michael Pastor, Conrad Murray Trial, Prescription Drug Addictions, Prescription Drugs, Addiction, Doctors Who Overprescribe Narcotics, Narcotics, Crime News
Diane Dimond

Now, prosecutors have the rock solid, slam dunk Conrad Murray conviction under their belt which could very well add new energy to cases pending against doctors in other states.

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Toddler Overdoses On Dad's Oxycodone

Posted 01.10.2012 | Denver
Read More: Oxycodone, Video, Oxycontin, Toddler Dies of Oxycodone, Toddler Dies of Oxycontin, Clifton Colorado, Grand Junction News, Colorado News, Narcotics, Clifton News, Colorado, Grand Junction Colorado, Denver News

Manuel Rivera, a 31-year-old Clifton, Colo. father pleaded guilty to the Oxycodone overdose death of his 17-month-old toddler daughter, the Grand Junc...

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Shocking: NYPD Narcotics Officers Provided Woman With Drugs In Exchange For Sex Acts

Posted 12.24.2011 | New York
Read More: Nypd, Queens, Jason Arbeeny, Brooklyn, Drugs, Flaking, Narcotics, Stephen Anderson, NY Crime, Nypd Scandals, New York News

In a shocking testimony last week, a woman claimed that NYPD narcotics officers provided her with crack in return for sexual favors. Melanie Perez...

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Shocking: Former NYPD Officer Admits To Issuing Fake Drug Charges To Meet Quotas

Posted 12.13.2011 | New York
Read More: Drug Busts, Nypd, New York Crime, Queens, Jason Arbeeny, Brooklyn, Flaking, Stephen Anderson, Narcotics, Nypd Scandals, New York News

A former narcotics detective admitted to routinely faking drug charges in order to help officers meet department quotas. Stephen Anderson testified...

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Four Americans Get Top-Grade Pot From U.S. Government

AP | NIGEL DUARA | Posted 11.28.2011 | Home
Read More: Pot Smokers, Video, U.S. Government, Legal Pot Smokers, Federal Law, Marijuana, Illegal Drugs, Medical Marijuana, Legal Drugs, War on Drugs, Pot, Narcotics, Healthcare, Home News

EUGENE, Ore. — Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found pot on a ...

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Cocaine Components In The Crosshairs

Posted 11.12.2011 | World
Read More: Drug Trafficking, Cocaine Trafficking, Bogota Cocaine, Colombia, Central America, Colombia Cocaine, Drugs, Honduras Cocaine, War on Drugs, Dea, Narcotics, Cocaine, World News

By John Otis, GlobalPost BOGOTA, Colombia — To make cocaine you need more than just coca leaves, the raw material for the narcotic. You als...

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