Painkiller Association Closes As Senate Launches Probe
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...
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...
Loren Berlin | Posted 05.07.2012
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...
AP | Posted 04.27.2012
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...
Alexia Amvrazi | Posted 04.06.2012
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.
Posted 02.18.2012
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...
Posted 02.16.2012
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. ...
Posted 04.09.2012
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...
AP | By CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 01.21.2012
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Federal law enforcement agencies will help tribal officers obtain equipment and training on Indian lands near the U.S.-Canadian borde...
Posted 01.12.2012
Miami-Dade Police narcotics officers sure were busy bees on Wednesday: they simultaneously busted 25 hydroponic marijuana labs worth $4.5 million. ...
Posted 01.05.2012
Wilfer Bohorquez Rojo was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport with nearly $700,000 worth of smuggled heroin on New Year's Eve, MyCentralJ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.08.2011
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 ...
Diane Dimond | Posted 02.06.2012
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.
Posted 01.10.2012
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...
Posted 12.24.2011
In a shocking testimony last week, a woman claimed that NYPD narcotics officers provided her with crack in return for sexual favors. Melanie Perez...
Posted 12.13.2011
A former narcotics detective admitted to routinely faking drug charges in order to help officers meet department quotas. Stephen Anderson testified...
AP | NIGEL DUARA | Posted 11.28.2011
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 ...
Posted 11.12.2011
By John Otis, GlobalPost BOGOTA, Colombia — To make cocaine you need more than just coca leaves, the raw material for the narcotic. You als...
AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 11.05.2011
NEW YORK -- In many ways, the reputed drug dealers on Grandview Place were good neighbors. Their two-story, red-brick home in the New York City subur...
AP | Posted 09.13.2011
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- A Honduran patrol boat has located a semi-submersible craft used by drug traffickers to carry cocaine. Five crew members have...
Posted 08.31.2011
The U.S. Justice Department is declaring open season on large-scale growers, sellers and distributors of marijuana. This means trouble for the 16 s...
AP | BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 08.22.2011
GUATEMALA CITY — The Obama administration pledged Wednesday to increase its investment in Central Americas security to nearly $300 million this ...
Posted 08.22.2011
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Mark Osler | Posted 07.10.2011
Narcotics trafficking is a business, and we need to make that business fail. Instead of attacking labor, which is plentiful, we should attack the capital flow from the street to source countries.
Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian soldiers have for the first time seized a fully submersible drug-smuggling submarine capable of reaching the coast of M...
ProPublica | Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber | Posted 05.09.2012