Zefrey Throwell, a New York-based multimedia artist, whose father overdosed on crystal meth, made a diptych of portraits from actual crystal meth and his father's cremated ashes.
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Gay men love Tumblr and porn, so it was probably inevitable that gay crystal meth users would start posting videos of naked guys masturbating and/or fucking while using crystal meth.
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A year later, she was smoking and injecting crystal meth.
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By her 20s, she'd discovered opioids, cocaine and crystal meth.
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And then her friends got busted for selling crystal meth.
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That amount reportedly equates to 454 kilograms of crystal meth.
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That opened the door to ecstasy, cocaine and crystal meth.
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Police found crystal meth and mushrooms in his hotel room.
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I was high on a cocktail of crystal meth and GHB.
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And then all the while, super highly addicted to crystal meth.
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He sometimes bought crystal meth when he was training in Iran.
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So they decided to cook up their own stimulant, crystal meth.
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"Crystal meth," he replies, as if it were a tourist attraction.
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Cops seize record-breaking haul of crystal meth in Australia Cops seize record-breaking haul of crystal meth in Australia The Australian Federal Police released footage Wednesday of drugs seized during the country's largest ever methamphetamine bust.
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In fact, what they're referring to is Nicolas' addiction to crystal meth.
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The following year, he joined Crystal Meth Anonymous and saw a psychologist.
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" Inside the room, authorities found "clear plastic baggies containing suspected crystal meth.
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One thing led to another, and I got hooked on crystal meth.
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Also: The anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation; gay men and crystal meth addiction.
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"You're not going to make crystal meth, are you?" the daughter asked.
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In the years following Full House, Sweetin developed an addiction to crystal meth.
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Crystal meth is mostly consumed by middle-class party-goers in developed countries.
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That evening, they captured 1.1 tonnes of crystal meth at a Yangon jetty.
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The arrest report alleges police discovered crystal meth and Xanax in Monell's apartment.
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However, the police department tested it and found that it contained crystal meth.
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Nic tells his father that crystal meth filled a void in his life.
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She was more extra than a sugar-free gum commercial on crystal meth.
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How can people be praying to a man who is trafficking crystal meth?
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"My brain chemistry really liked crystal meth more than anything else," Nic said.
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Crystal meth and opioid use, as in so many small towns, was rampant.
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He said he had recently kicked heroin but was still shooting crystal meth.
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She has recently gotten off crystal meth—"the white trash drug," she tells me.
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"The problem with that is the psychologist says crystal meth caused psychosis," Brizzi explained.
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The profit margin that is achieved by producing crystal meth in Myanmar is breathtaking.
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The Familia dominated everything from crystal meth and avocado production, to community conflict resolution.
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Kenneth is a black gay veteran of Crystal Meth Anonymous meetings in West Hollywood.
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I started smoking crystal meth around August 2015, when I was living in Los Angeles.
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There are high levels of domestic violence and drug use, with crystal meth making inroads.
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Confiscations of crystal meth, a stronger, pricier form, rose from 14 tonnes to 33 tonnes.
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After a raid in February outside Melbourne, police found almost a ton of crystal meth.
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In the right setting I might take amphetamines, but I'd never take crystal meth again.
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He used to roam the surrounding streets while out of his mind on crystal meth.
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Austin Police estimates the street value of the liquid crystal meth at approximately $2 million.
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Now crystal meth is the big thing for the youngsters, and it's taking them down.
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But what would happen if powder cocaine, crack, MDMA, crystal meth, and speed were legalized?
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You'll meet anyone to an old cab driver to some Central American crystal meth dealer.
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No one in the gay community is immune to the impact of crystal meth addiction.
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Congress and states nationwide took aggressive action against crystal meth more than a decade ago.
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Champ says heroin and crystal meth, at that moment, had absolute control over her life.
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" Later he said, "you know that I had never touched Crystal Meth in my life.
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" Speaking specifically about the effect of crystal meth in the Brizzi case, London Friend said in a statement: "A case like this is a rare and extreme example, but the impact of crystal meth on the mental health of our service users is not.
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The two groups are wings of cartels fighting over drug distribution routes, particularly for crystal meth.
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That's why I'm smoking crystal meth…That's why I can't get a job and hold it.
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Thailand is a major trafficking route for crystal meth manufactured in Myanmar's Shan and Kachin states.
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She alleged Buck injected her son with a lethal dose of crystal meth, according to CNN.
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Shabu: A local name for crystal meth, present in over 90 percent of the capital's neighborhoods.
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One even said they saw me doing hard drugs — crystal meth or heroin — at a party.
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Name Withheld Let's be clear: Tim didn't show you an Altoids tin filled with crystal meth.
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Half a decade later, it is still heroin -- as well as crystal meth -- that Farmer can't escape.
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In her divorce docs, she says Antonio's admitted using crystal meth before they got together in 2009.
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Fergie has candidly opened up about her lowest point during her battle with addiction to crystal meth.
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Some experts believe the CJNG is already the main supplier of crystal meth to the United States.
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The defendant said he used a lot of crystal meth, but there was nothing apart from that.
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Crystal meth addiction is not a joke, which is precisely why Katya has made it into one.
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"Dealers have been crushing crystal meth and inserting it into weed that they roll up," says Rice.
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I also hated men who bragged about their crystal meth use, or "Tina," as the gays call it.
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And when you have a drug like crystal meth, you won't find many forums that don't discuss sex.
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Baby Hope suffered through nearly a month of heroin and crystal meth withdrawal but is now doing well.
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Andrei claims that stories of people giving each other crystal meth were common among defectors from the North.
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Methamphetamine, known popularly as crystal meth, is the most widespread drug, said a police spokesman, Colonel Bassem Ghanem.
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Inside the hotel room, police reportedly saw three small clear plastic bags that appeared to contain crystal meth.
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The nasal decongestant, found in some allergy and cold medicines, can also be used to make crystal meth.
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They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, 'No, it's meth, crystal meth.
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Seizures of crystal meth and yaba rose about 50% last year to 126 tonnes in East and Southeast Asia.
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And then people also don't recognize that crystal meth happened also, which was the second part of this plague.
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So it was almost like AIDS took out a whole generation and then crystal meth took out another generation.
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Sachets containing crystal meth and a sign accusing him of being a drug addict was found on his body.
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Strangely, the teacher thought it appropriate to provide the actual instructions for producing methamphetamine, otherwise known as crystal meth.
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His tough stance on shabu (crystal meth), and against the criminal networks supplying it, later appealed to voters nationally.
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The retail price of a gram of crystal meth is about $16 in Myanmar, but around $300 in Australia.
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The Oscar-nominated actor plays Nic in Beautiful Boy, a San Francisco teen who becomes addicted to crystal meth.
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Hancock was also in possession of a firearm, 1.7 grams of crystal meth and a glass pipe, police said.
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Shan's super-labs produce the purest crystal meth in the world, the senior Chinese counter-narcotics official told Reuters.
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Demand for both crystal meth and yaba, tablets that typically contain a mixture of meth and caffeine, is skyrocketing.
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She rarely saw a needle after crack and crystal meth became more popular and cheaper than any other drug.
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In January 2015, a drone carrying 3 pounds of crystal meth crashed in a parking lot in Tijuana, Mexico.
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The integrity of his graveyard DJ shift must be protected, but here, stupid hat kid, take some crystal meth!
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If it shows no traces of cocaine or crystal meth, he gets to pull chips out of a hat.
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The increasing use of stronger and more addictive crystal meth, or ice, has driven a sharp rise in deaths.
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On the show, Walter White was a teacher who turned to a life of crime by dealing crystal meth.
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The jaunty track is about the allure of crystal meth addiction and the itchy desperation of desiring an escape.
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Like, did you know "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind is actually supposed to be about crystal meth?
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The news comes after a years-old video started circulating reportedly showing a woman identified as Brooke doing crystal meth.
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But worryingly this includes a doubling in the use of the addictive stimulant crystal meth, known as 'cristal' in Mexico.
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It stops to teach the viewer about the physical effect of crystal meth—Nic's drug of choice—on the brain.
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One of the students recently came home with a handout containing detailed instructions for making, preparing, and injecting crystal meth.
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At the same time, the use of crystal meth and childhood abuse remained independent predictors of suicidality in the women.
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Williamson doesn't dictate what readers should and shouldn't eat, but she does compare a hot fudge sundae to crystal meth.
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The pair also discuss finding a buyer for the batches of crystal meth (valued at $1.3 million) that they cooked.
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While marijuana does less harm, the smugglers also bring heroin, crack cocaine and crystal meth to America, which kill many.
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But rather than tea, sweets or clothing, some in this impoverished, isolated country are giving the gift of crystal meth.
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Rather than being filled with addictive gadgets that cost a month's worth of rent, it contained a pound of crystal meth.
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Myles tells PEOPLE that, after his arrest, Dearman allegedly told police he'd been smoking crystal meth just prior to the attacks.
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In March 7003 an Irish court ruling resulted in the accidental legalization of certain drugs, including ecstasy, ketamine, and crystal meth.
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The most popular drug in the country is shabu, slang for crystal meth, which drug syndicates produce in local labs. In
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Emilio was in a downward spiral when I met him, selling off properties he owned to fund his crystal meth habit.
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Of course, a danger is that people develop relationship problems because the sex they have after crystal meth becomes incredibly unfulfilling.
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Many of the participants were addicted to crystal meth and heroin, and two thirds of them were serving a prison sentence.
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Mexican traffickers, responding to drug use in the US, have turned to synthetic drugs and opioids, like crystal meth and fentanyl.
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Jackson went on VH1's "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" in 2011 where he talked about his addiction to crystal meth.
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Police also seized large quantities of synthetic drugs, firearms and half a million euros' worth of crystal meth in the haul.
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Baggies of "suspected crystal meth" were found in the hotel room, which Gillum left "without incident," according to the New Times.
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He said he started self-medicating at age 14 with beer and marijuana, then moved on to cocaine and crystal meth.
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In 2013, Joseph Lloyd was convicted of possessing small amounts of heroin, crystal meth, and crack cocaine for the purpose trafficking.
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Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel went on smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, marijuana, and crystal meth across Mexico's border with the United States.
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President Joko Widodo's government has cracked down on trafficking in an effort to contain soaring consumption of crystal meth and other narcotics.
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Chinese officials announced that the suspects were carrying HK$1 million (~$153,000) worth of drugs suspected to be heroin and crystal meth.
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Police salaries are often no match for the gang's financial muscle, which in large part has been built on trafficking crystal meth.
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You've also made a film about crystal meth and one on medicated kids in the past—what's the attraction to the subject?
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Read "Filipinos Celebrated Easter by Crucifying a Bunch of People Again" Watch "Crystal Meth and Cartels in the Philippines: The Shabu Trap"
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The liquid could have made about 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) of high-grade crystal meth, Australian Federal Police Commander Chris Sheehan said.
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The parallels with contamination hysteria during the 1980s HIV/AIDS epidemic and in homes where crystal meth has been smoked are unavoidable.
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He likes to combine a cup of Kopi Panggung Al-Ambiak, his favorite brand, with crystal meth for drug-fueled sex marathons.
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Al-Ambiak is even strong enough to combat the impotency caused by continued use of drugs like crystal meth, he told VICE.
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Crystal meth, a drug virtually unused in Britain apart from on London's gay clubbing scene, provides both staying power and sexual desire.
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One user-turned-dealer said he was recruited a year after he started buying, wooed by the idea of free crystal meth.
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He might as well have suggested I start selling crystal meth in order to fund a few years in the Peace Corps.
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While crystal meth is the most dangerous amphetamine used in Iraq, perhaps the most popular is illicitly manufactured under the name Captagon.
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Among them was Will, whose easy smile and neatly cropped goatee hide his years of dealing crack cocaine, crystal meth and marijuana.
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He added that defectors had made fewer references to crystal meth in the years since, possibly indicating a decline in overall use.
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Police found Xanax, a prescription medication used to treat anxiety disorders, as well as crystal meth, which he admitted was for personal use.
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Unlike the MDMA-like jingle jangle or the crystal meth-ish fizzle rocks, G turns people into foaming-at-the-mouth, catatonic monsters.
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Back in June of 21, seven defendants were charged in New York with running a drug ring that distributed crystal meth and MDMA.
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Crystal meth is a bit of an issue in Hawaii, and a number of its users tend to congregate near the launch ramp.
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In July, a Florida man was arrested when cops who pulled him over mistook some leftover Krispy Kreme doughnut glaze for crystal meth.
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Back in June of 2014, seven defendants were charged in New York with running a drug ring that distributed crystal meth and MDMA.
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Remember when you were (incorrectly) taught that weed was a gateway drug that would lead to harder ones like cocaine or crystal meth?
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Before the raid, police intercepted a man outside the apartment with what appeared to be 14 grams of crystal meth inside his bag.
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Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel went on smuggling hundreds of tonnes of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and crystal meth across Mexico's border with the United States.
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Buzzbomb for the two people following his Soundcloud account—pleaded guilty to uttering threats, possession of crystal meth, and breaching a court order.
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The higher purity crystal meth is taken to ports and shipped to richer markets such as Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.
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Sullivan says he worked nonstop as a bricklayer in Portland during the 2000s, despite a serious drug habit—in those days, crystal meth.
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In 2012, the New York Times hypothesized that major HIV activist Spencer Cox may have died from his drug struggle with crystal meth.
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"I've got a few kilos of ice," or crystal meth, she said, and she asked for Lee's help in selling it in China.
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She was found hoarding dozens of toothbrushes, seemingly for makeshift shanks, and she confessed to a year-long binge on contraband crystal meth.
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As a gay man who got caught in the web of crystal meth addiction, I know firsthand the devastation this drug can cause.
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Despite this progress, synthetic opioids like fentanyl remain a huge problem, and we've seen a resurgence of psychostimulants like crystal meth and cocaine.
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Now, despite recent interventions by me and other people, my friend is overcome by the daily ritual of obtaining and using crystal meth.
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The small European country took the radical step of decriminalizing all drugs — including marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, crystal meth, and heroin — for personal use.
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These drugs, along with crystal meth, have become associated with chemsex due to their ability to induce heightened arousal, sexual stamina, and reduce inhibition.
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GBL and GHB are big libido-drivers, and crystal meth or mephedrone helps to physically sustain that libido over a long period of time.
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A police officer in the Philippines holds high-purity crystal meth — known locally as "shabu" — after a bust south of Manila in January 2014.
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Back in July 2016, police in Florida arrested a very unlucky retiree after mistaking the blue glaze from the guy's donut for crystal meth.
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Guzman's Sinaloa cartel went on smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, marijuana, and crystal meth across Mexico's 22000,21 mile border with the United States.
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In a new interview with the U.K.'s iNews, Fergie openly discussed her past use of crystal meth, which eventually led to daily hallucinations.
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Last week, a security official at the Mexico City Airport found eight pounds of crystal meth hidden inside plastic capsules wrapped in candy paper.
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A Georgia man who invested his $3 million lottery winnings into a thriving crystal meth business is facing an unexpected return: decades behind bars.
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Increased use of crystal meth in Mexico's border cities has been tied to rising violence, as criminal groups compete for control of local markets.
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Duterte's oldest son, Paolo, saw his name thrown into the middle of an investigation surrounding the shipment of $013 million worth of crystal meth.
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He was hospitalized several times but was never kept long; he told Canada's Financial Post that he had used crystal meth in the past.
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She sees girls using crystal meth and battles Hefner over his strict rules that forbid her from leaving the dog-shit covered decaying mansion.
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Mr. Sullivan said he worked nonstop as a bricklayer in Portland during the 2000s, despite a serious drug habit — in those days, crystal meth.
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During the examination, a doctor allegedly found baggies of weed, crystal meth, and cocaine between Alvarez's legs near his groin, only adding to his charges.
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Jamie Hakim: Men taking mephedrone, GHB, GBL, and crystal meth, and—often using apps like Grindr—organizing group parties in apartments and residencies around London.
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Later, when Corbally found out Fleiss was snorting crystal meth, he told her to stop — and he set an example with his own sober lifestyle.
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Crystal meth has been a huge problem in the Philippines for years, and President Rodrigo Duterte swore to stamp it out by any means necessary.
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If we could all support Walter White (Bryan Cranston) for filling the Southwest with crystal meth, we can handle a cocaine-dabbling fictional woman doctor.
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A few years ago, it was reported that some crystal meth users had turned to snorting detergent as a substitute and then become violently ill.
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A gram of crystal meth sold for about $560 in Japan and $390 in South Korea in 2017, according to UNODC figures released in March.
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Less than a year later, my dad and I were arrested together for going full Bonnie and Clyde on a crystal meth induced crime spree.
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Alig told me that he and Riggs were high on a combination of ketamine, heroin, Rohypnol, ketamine, and crystal meth when Melendez started biting him.
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Crystal meth, his drug of choice, robs its users of their dopamine receptors, meaning that their ability to experience joy is diminished or even destroyed.
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Watch "Crystal Meth and Cartels in the Philippines: The Shabu Trap" Read "The War on Drugs Isn't Just Destroying Lives — It's Also Killing the Environment"
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It was one of Jesse's first meals he ate after escaping the compound where the white supremacists forced him to cook crystal meth for months.
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Some of the rallygoers laughed nervously, well aware of the fate that often met anyone accused of abusing shabu, the Philippine name for crystal meth.
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On the day in 2009 when Cameron Douglas was arrested at a New York hotel for possession of crystal meth, he was given a choice.
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The cartels make billions smuggling heroin, cocaine and crystal meth to America, as well as from a portfolio of rackets from kidnapping to oil theft.
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In March, police found drugs and cash in his home, including 247 grams of heroin and 13 grams of crystal meth, the troopers report said.
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In recent decades alone, we have seen the nation shift its focus from crack cocaine, to MDMA, to crystal meth, to Fentanyl, and so on.
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Jorge, who carries crystal meth and cocaine into the US as many as fifteen times a day, said nothing will change with the new government.
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These conditions, of adulterous marital strife and abundant crystal meth, begat The Sebadoh, the semi-eponymous 1999 record that would lead to the namesake band's undoing.
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Alig has since disputed that the police found crystal meth on him, telling Page Six that the police had mistaken what were healing crystals for drugs.
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Hours later, eating tacos on the outskirts of the city, he'd admit he'd been lost in a three-day bender on cocaine, crack, and crystal meth.
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In late December, 530 litres of liquid meth and 2 kilograms of crystal meth were found in the art supplies being stored in four Sydney suburbs.
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Nic Sheff (Mr Chalamet) is a bright and boisterous adolescent whose casual experimentation with soft drugs quickly turns to an infatuation with crystal meth and heroin.
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Since at least 2012, tea packets, often containing one kilo of crystal meth each, had been cropping up in drug busts across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Also, specifically, there were elements of the crystal-meth story that I felt we could develop more and improve on by delving further into the lifestyle.
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Instead of making people feel slightly stoned, demand for a stronger hit led to a drug with side effects more reminiscent of crystal meth than weed.
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Neighboring Malaysia made its largest seizure of crystal meth in May, intercepting nearly 1.2 tonnes of the drug disguised as tea in a shipment from Myanmar.
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She had been homeless for two years, and each day was consumed by scrounging for the money to pay for hits of heroin and crystal meth.
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According to the report, Tse's network supplies almost the entire Asian market and even Australia and New Zealand's markets, with crystal meth, heroin, ketamine and MDMA.
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Chemsex is characterized by the use of drugs such as crystal meth, mephedrone and GHB, or gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, to enhance sexual arousal, performance and pleasure.
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Chemsex is characterized by the use of drugs such as crystal meth, mephedrone and GHB, or gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, to enhance sexual arousal, performance and pleasure.
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"She was a member of a notorious gang that sells shabu in this area," the priest told me recently, using the local term for crystal meth.
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Thailand itself is a huge market for crystal meth, Douglas added, but is also being used very effectively by organized crime groups as a logistics hub.
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In a new development, Afghan meth cooks are now using "Oman", a locally grown shrub that contains the stimulant ephedrine and converting that into crystal meth.
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In his pocket, the police found two tiny rocks — about $4 worth of "shabu," the form of crystal meth at the heart of this drug war.
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Less widely known is that some former crystal meth and heroin users are vaping to manage their drug cravings, and describing these experiences on online forums.
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Phoenix PD officers showed up and searched him, where they say they found Xanax pills and crystal meth ... which we're told he admitted were for personal use.
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Yet, like most drug crises that cycle in and out of public view, abuse of methamphetamines — more commonly known as crystal meth — receded but never went away.
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The police said they had impounded three small plastic bags "containing suspected crystal meth" that officers saw on both the bed and floor of the hotel room.
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The cuts are incorporated into the shapes, even when myriad lines cross over the entire surface, like the tracks of an OCD ice skater on crystal meth.
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A source told the New York Post that the candles would have yielded an estimated 60 kilos of crystal meth once they were melted down or whatever.
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At a separate press conference Tuesday, Thai authorities displayed large quantities of amphetamines, marijuana and crystal meth that had been seized over the the past two weeks.
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"I've never seen people so sick off of a habit," said Tressa Vigil, 28, a longtime member of the Dukes who used crystal meth for 20 years.
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What they found inside was not crystal meth or cocaine or fentanyl but slim boxes of vaping cartridges labeled with flavors like strawberry and peaches and cream.
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Afghanistan drug chemists have adopted a new route to methamphetamine synthesis using a wild mountain shrub, known as oman, containing ephedra, a precursor to crystal meth production.
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A crystal meth user charged with the murder of two Alberta seniors is questioning whether or not the the couple he is accused of killing are even dead.
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Elliott also admitted later that he had smoked marijuana before being arrested and had used crystal meth and synthetic marijuana in the last year, according to the Gazette.
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Dasha Fincher spent the first three months of 2017 behind bars, held on $1 million bond after being falsely accused of possessing crystal meth after a traffic stop.
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Mike Rizzo, a crystal meth counselor at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, said he's seen many gay men afraid to label something that's happened to them as rape.
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Related: Nigeria Has Dismantled a Crystal Meth Super Lab Built With Mexican Expertise A member of OPEC, Nigeria is Africa's top economy and the continent's largest oil producer.
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Police and locals say the complex churned out vast quantities of crystal meth, heroin, ketamine and yaba tablets - a cheaper form of meth that is mixed with caffeine.
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Average retail prices for crystal meth, according to the UN agency, are equivalent to $70,500 per kilo in Thailand, $298,000 per kilo in Australia and $588,000 in Japan.
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Fewer than half of them – 860,000 – had consumed crystal meth, or shabu, the highly addictive stimulant widely blamed by officials for high crime rates and other social ills.
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Now 44, Cooper had been using hard drugs since she was 270, often mixing heroin and crystal meth and at times working as a prostitute to make money.
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We broke the story ... Harris was busted last month after he took off with his friend's car and was found the next day with Xanax and crystal meth.
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His hobbies included smoking crystal meth, shooting up heroin, and doing illegal prison tattoos, whereas I spent most of my free time in the cell reading and writing.
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Crystal meth, known locally as "shabu," is the primary drug consumed and trafficked within the Philippines and is present in more than 90 percent of the capital's neighborhoods.
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In May, according to an interview with the Financial Post, Mr. Truaxe took crystal meth in Britain, which led to him being arrested and committed to a hospital.
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Widodo's remarks came shortly after Indonesian police shot and killed a Taiwanese man allegedly resisting arrest while attempting to smuggle one ton of crystal meth into Greater Jarkarta.
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"The hospital was unable to rebut Truaxe's lawyer's suggestion that his psychosis was induced by his use of psychedelic mushrooms and crystal meth," according to the Financial Post.
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While on the show — which was taped in October — Brown revealed that he struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, medicating with marijuana and using crystal meth in the past.
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Meth is sold in cheap pills called "ya ba", a Thai name meaning "crazy medicine", or in a more potent, crystalline form known as "crystal meth", "ice" or "shabu".
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They discovered photos related to three big consignments of crystal meth that were intercepted in China, Japan and New Zealand in 2016, according to investigators and Myanmar police documents.
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Meth is sold in pill form as "ya ba", a Thai name meaning "crazy medicine", or as a more potent, crystalline substance known as "crystal meth", "ice" or "shabu".
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Nigeria's national drug enforcement agency has announced that it has dismantled West Africa's first industrial-scale crystal meth lab, and said that it was built with Mexican know-how.
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Since then, the CJNG surge has sparked record murder levels around the Pacific ports that feed the gang's demand for precursor chemicals from China used to make crystal meth.
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North Korean citizens have been giving crystal meth to one another as a gift, as part of a custom that's becoming increasingly popular, according to The New York Times.
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A Vancouver-based study in 2150 found that the average daily user of stimulants like crystal meth and cocaine was responsible for crimes that cost victims $2200,700 a month.
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"The ones you drive by on the freeway with a crystal meth guy on one side, stolen goods on the other and Dumbo in the middle," Richard Kraft said.
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Cannabis is a Group 1 drug in Indonesia, along with heroin, cocaine and crystal meth, which means the government considers it to be a dangerous substance with no therapeutic value.
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Image: Radspunk/Wikimedia CommonsAn Ontario mother is outraged after her 13-year-old son was handed instructions for making and injecting crystal meth as part of a drama class assignment.
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In March the director-general of the UAE's Anti-Narcotics Department, Colonel Saeed al-Suwaidi, said seizures of Captagon, real and fake, and crystal meth, had almost quadrupled last year.
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"[With] crystal meth, the leader appears to be China, but they also produce significant amounts in the Philippines and in Indonesia, and also to some extent in Myanmar," Douglas said.
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He got into booze, weed, cocaine, ecstasy, crystal meth, and heroin at an early age, bouncing in and out of rehab all through his teen years and relapsing countless times.
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For example, a lot of people think Liam's a mindless hooligan who runs around getting into scrapes, doing a lot of crystal meth and jumping out windows and attacking people.
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Another I speak to would turn to Tina—a slang term for crystal meth—automatically before sex, but now he describes rediscovering sober sex with the help of an escort.
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Some toxicologists argue that the sales of loperamide should be limited, much as the nonprescription drug pseudoephedrine was restricted a decade ago to help prevent the manufacturing of crystal meth.
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How pseudoephedrine is regulated Sudafed is regulated because pseudoephedrine, the active ingredient in some forms of the medication, can be used to create the street drug methamphetamine, or crystal meth.
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Here's one thing not to do with your lottery winnings: A Georgia man who won $3 million put it into a crystal meth business and is facing decades behind bars.
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The original series, which ran from 2008 until 2013, followed Pinkman and his former chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) as they as they paired together to sell crystal meth.
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In that same article, Fairfax stated that people in North Korea commonly take crystal meth to treat colds, boost their energy, or keep them awake so they can work late.
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At the network of community health centers I lead in South Los Angeles, an overwhelming majority of patients we treat in our substance abuse programs are addicted to crystal meth.
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But young Nic (Chalamet) has been experimenting with drugs for years and has now become dangerously addicted to crystal meth, derailing those plans, despite one stint in rehab after another.
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According to a criminal complaint seen by THUMP, the officers spotted a "glass pipe with a white, rock-like residue" in Alig's pocket, which he admitted to using for crystal meth.
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I guess if somebody was into crystal meth, or they were a neo-Nazi, or if they were a neo-Nazi with a meth habit, I'd have to let them go.
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Earlier this month, Indonesian authorities confiscated just over 1 ton of crystal meth, known locally as 'shabu-shabu', also in Batam, a small industrial hub a short ferry ride from Singapore.
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There was that time Brandi Glanville accused Kim Richards of doing crystal meth in the bathroom after Kim and her sister Kyle Richards ganged up on her and hid her crutches.
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Shortly after Herrera was detained, police in the Philippinesseized 84 kilograms of high-grade "shabu" crystal meth worth $9.4 million and arrested three suspects with alleged links to the Sinaloa Cartel.
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I think you suck out so much on the crystal meth high – you've had such a fundamentally great time – to get back to a baseline takes a lot longer than serotonin.
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Soon after railing about President Obama's self-centeredness, Mark is seen injecting crystal meth into both of Lisa's bare breasts, which you suppose, in his view, is a form of service.
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Mr. Music "decided to test his luck by sinking millions of dollars of lottery winnings into the purchase and sale of crystal meth," Edward J. Tarver, the United States attorney, said.
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The drug has risen as a deadly threat in the country's "chemsex" scene, where gay and bisexual men experiment with doses of crystal meth, GHB, and mephedrone to heighten sexual arousal.
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Mr. Mohamed said that he did not think that Mr. Truaxe had been mentally ill, but said he did think that he had been addicted to drugs: crystal meth and psilocybin.
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Based on the new amendment, only those distributing more than 50 kilograms of narcotics like opium, 2 kilograms of heroin or 3 kilograms of crystal meth will be sentenced to death.
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In arresting interludes between the chapters, we watch through Darren's eyes as Adam and his man-child friends, addled with senioritis and crystal meth, try to coax him into playing mascot.
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It's the same thinking that gave us the vodka & Red Bull, the spliff, or the club kids special known as XECK (xanax, ecstasy, crystal-meth and ketamine, ground up together and snorted).
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Duterte won the 2016 presidential election in May on promises to crack down on shabu, a type of crystal meth which has had many Filipinos in its grip in the last decade.
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Shortly after Herrera was detained, police in the Philippines seized 84 kilograms of high-grade "shabu" crystal meth worth $9.4 million and arrested three suspects with alleged links to the Sinaloa Cartel.
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The first variety is common in mainland Southeast Asia, and the second — known as shabu, ice or crystal meth, among other names — is more popular in the Philippines and many other countries.
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Douglas said a surge in crystal meth production in Myanmar's autonomous northern regions had resulted in a huge amount of cheap, high-quality drugs flooding into the surrounding region and further afield.
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But experts say the custom of gifting crystal meth in North Korea — where it is called "pingdu," the Korean transliteration of the Chinese word for "ice drug" — is essentially an open secret.
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"It was too much becoming about the ketamine, the crystal meth, the GHB," he admits, regarding the crash of the New York scene in the late-90s when he first became a star.
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It's a Michelin-triple-starred master class in patisserie skills that transforms the cinematic equivalent of a sugar rush into a kind of crystal meth-like narcotic high that lasts about two hours.
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News of Mueller's decision to seek help came as Page Six, which first reported the news, released footage of her preparing to smoke what appears to be crystal meth inside of a van.
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His clients are unashamed of their vices (including, but not limited to: cocaine, crystal meth, booze, group sex, cigarettes, selfies, and compulsive lying) and often unsure about what they're doing with their lives.
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She writes about the infamous case of Marcia Powell — a mentally ill prostitute and crystal meth addict who died of heat exposure in 2009 in an outdoor holding cell in the Arizona desert.
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The drug trafficker opened the gate and a man delivered another another 11 pounds of crystal meth produced in a laboratory in Sinaloa, which he usually buys for less than $500 per kilo.
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I even carried on smoking crystal meth after I had a stroke and lost control of half my face, using the part of my mouth that still worked to suck the glass pipe.
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As a result, the world wide web has presented us with some strange things: Tumblr communities where you can watch people smoke crystal meth, this ephemerally chill video, and the forever brilliant ratemypoo.com.
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A young eastern European office worker in his twenties, he spent his evenings and weekends moving from one party to another, chasing the crystal meth because he had become addicted to the drug.
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Johnson hit a few tough spots along the way, getting pushback for his political career and more moderate stances — Perry, for example, said everything "should be as legal as tomatoes," including crystal meth.
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Illegal land ownership is about as common in Mexico as crystal meth is on the streets of Fresno, and as long as the Medina mafia remained in power, opening the area remained elusive.
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Mike, in turn, received a no-show job as a "security consultant" for Madrigal, the international conglomerate whose employee Lydia Rodarte-Quayle (Laura Fraser) provides Gus's outfit with key ingredients for crystal meth.
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Among those was the customs chief, who was tied to the smuggling of more than a ton of crystal meth in an operation that allegedly involved the president's son and son-in-law.
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The haul follows a series of high-profile raids targeting the drug trade in Thailand, which saw thousands of kilograms of crystal meth, speed and marijuana seized between March 25 and April 1.
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Several U.S. police departments are falsely warning members of the public that their crystal meth could be contaminated with coronavirus, and that they should bring it to a police station to be tested.
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BASRA, Iraq — Hussein Karim sold his three cars, he sold the land where he planned to build a house, and he spent his savings — several thousand dollars — all on his crystal meth habit.
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Last year in Basra province, Iraq's southernmost governorate and the one with the worst drug problems, 153,215 people, almost all men, were convicted of possession or sale of illegal drugs, mostly crystal meth.
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When I cleaned out his house, I found the ingredients for it: Vicodin, Tramadol, Adderall, cocaine, Xanax, crystal meth and a kaleidoscope of pills I couldn't identify, but not for lack of trying.
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Part of the thrill of the original series lay in the sheer audacity of White's plan to build an international crystal-meth empire, whose workings were intricately laid out as the seasons progressed.
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Speaking to CNN days after the incident, Surianata insisted it had not been an anti-LGBT operation but instead a drug raid to investigate reports of crystal meth being circulated in the area.
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WWE legend X-Pac says the capsules he was carrying at LAX were NOT crystal meth -- it was medicine to treat a yeast infection -- and he's 100% confident lab tests will back his story.
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But at the end of the day, it was best to let this person go because a restaurant is no place for drugs like crystal meth—no matter how stressful the lifestyle may be.
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As they continue to chat about renovations, it is slowly revealed that Jess is addicted to crystal meth and that his parents plan to take him to a drug rehabilitation center the next day.
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Nigerian media reported that the "super laboratory," located in the Asaba Delta state, had the capacity to produce four tons of crystal meth per week, and was aiming to sell its product in Asia.
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The series centered on Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turned to crystal meth-making to financially support his family after being diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer.
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We're told the DEA got a whiff of the plan when one of the suspects drove an undercover agent to the warehouse where they planned to store and convert the candles to crystal meth.
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It described a narrative in which Kovari and Whitworth had become involved in London's underground chemsex scene–sex parties facilitated by dating apps such as Grindr and drugs including GHB, crystal meth, and mephedrone.
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Crystal Meth Anonymous is based on Alcoholics Anonymous, and before I entered the program, I thought that group recovery in that vein had to be weird—a creepy, cult-like approach to facing an addiction.
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At Insite, around 83 percent of drugs sold as heroin tested positive for some fentanyl—so did 82 percent of samples from drugs sold as crystal meth and 40 percent of drugs sold as cocaine.
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During her time in England, Pratt also authored the book Made in Reality, in which she opened up about her years-long struggle with bulimia and an addiction to drugs like crystal meth and cocaine.
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The series began with Jesse (played by Aaron Paul) joining forces with Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a New Mexico high school chemistry teacher who starts cooking and distributing crystal meth to pay for cancer treatment.
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In a dark rabbit warren of wood and corrugated iron, the most commonly used drugs - shabu (crystal meth) and nubain (a morphine-like opiate) - are sold in "shooting galleries" for 300 pesos ($6) per syringe.
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Treatment and meeting rooms will play host to one-on-one counseling, group therapy, Narcan training and a twice weekly drop-in space focused on fostering sex-positive harm reduction strategies for crystal meth users.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's federal prosecutors are applying to have seven pharma executives put on trial on suspicion of supplying a key ingredient for making crystal meth to a Mexican drug cartel, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Meth is being sold at rock-bottom prices, seizures appear to be doing little to dent the operations of drug traffickers, and crystal meth from the region is feeding demand as far away as New Zealand.
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"One night 11 years ago, a man high on crystal meth with a pistol shot through the windshield of my band's van as we were heading back to our hotel after a show," Cohn tells PEOPLE.
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Turf wars between gangs for control of supply and distribution of drugs including heroin, cocaine, crystal meth and marijuana helped push murders in Mexico to a record of almost 29,000 in 2017, according to government data.
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After moving to London, he tried drugs like GHB, ketamine, and crystal meth for the first time, and his eventual addiction to meth became so bad he was asked to leave his job in February 2015.
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She says that, to a small extent, the London scene has been copied in Brighton, Glasgow, and most notably Manchester, where a younger crowd is now going to chemsex-lite parties, swapping crystal meth for ecstasy.
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For now, he talks to BuzzFeed News about the wider issue: how crystal meth is spreading far beyond the party scene of the white gay community and into the lives of black and Latino queer men.
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It totally blew my mind that he's really singing about how "doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break" (a lyric that either got back masked or completely edited out of most radio versions).
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The answers he gets are disheartening: Crystal meth alters the chemistry of the brain so quickly and thoroughly that it only takes a couple of uses to get addicted; and once hooked, it's nearly impossible to stop.
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Officers requested assistance from APD's K-9 unit, and Emma, the department's narcotics dog led officers to three large jugs hidden inside the trunk and interior of the vehicle, which contained the stash of liquid crystal meth.
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After Ronnie Music Jr. won $3 million from the Georgia State Lottery last year, he decided to really push his luck and put all his new money into starting a full-fledged crystal meth ring, NBC reports.
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As a long-serving mayor in the southern city of Davao, Duterte rose to national prominence by declaring war on a drug that has crippled the Philippines, the cheap variant of crystal meth that Filipinos call shabu.
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In December 2017, 10 men were sentenced to death in Guangdong Province for producing crystal meth, and in February of the same year, Colombian Ismael Enrique Arciniegas, 74, was executed by lethal injection for smuggling cocaine into China.
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It states, though, that crystal meth "poses the highest risk to the Australian community and is of significant national concern" due to "a considerable increase in the number and weight of detections at the Australian border" since 2010.
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Chalamet's wrenching performance as a young man gripped by an addiction to crystal meth earned the young actor nominations throughout this awards season, including for the SAG Awards, the BAFTAs, the Golden Globes, and the Critics Choice Awards.
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Pohl, has an extensive rap sheet already—he had been charged with buying and distributing 1.3 kilograms of crystal meth and 64 kilos of marijuana in 2014 — but he had been denying the most recent charges against him.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Four men have been arrested after Australian police seized 400 kilograms of crystal meth, or ice, worth an estimated A$300 million ($210 million) concealed in bottles of sriracha hot chili sauce from the United States.
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The Australian Crime Intelligence Commission's latest figures show a record 30.6 tonnes of illicit drugs were seized nationally in the year ended June 2018, with crystal meth one of the most consumed and seized illicit drugs in Australia.
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He is also angry at just about everything, especially gay men who waste their lives getting wasted — chief among them his best friend, Tuffer, a trust-fund wastrel with a weakness for crystal meth and go-go boys.
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Malaysia is a key transit point for the drug, authorities say, with police in the past year seizing record amounts of crystal meth, or shabu as it is known domestically, with much of it coming from neighboring Myanmar.
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Mexican cartels have long dominated the crystal meth trade, especially since the mid-193s, when the U.S. began to tightly control cold medicines that contain pseudoephedrine, which Americans were using to manufacture meth in small-scale local labs.
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Watch "Cold Turkey: New Hampshire's Prison Detox" The clinic is separated from the rest of the GMHC space by its own waiting room, which features pamphlets about PrEP, syringe exchange programs, crystal meth use and other vital information.
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In what is perhaps one of the more mild examples of police harassment to make headlines recently, cops arrested 64-year-old retiree Daniel Rushing when they mistook glaze from his donut for crystal meth, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
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Over the course of Beautiful Boy, Nic uses crystal meth, lies effortlessly, hits rock bottom, gets sober, and hits rock bottom again — and Chalamet makes it all feel honest and emotionally resonant in a way that outshines the material.
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As they put together their deal to import 22019 tonnes of crystal meth into Australia, Smith's associates met with Sam Gor syndicate members in Bangkok in August 19703, according to a copy of an AFP document reviewed by Reuters.
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Cheryl Sabato, the estranged wife of the former Calvin Klein model, claims he dealt with prescription drug issues during their marriage and even admitted to using crystal meth before they met, this according to divorce docs obtained by PEOPLE.
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Last month, Pabey joined us for a roundtable discussion on the state of gay nightlife in the US, where he first shared his growing concerns over the widespread use of drugs like crystal meth and GHB in queer communities.
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He says it came crashing down when his brother got busted for running a crystal meth operation and Luis spent four years in prison, even though he claims he was never involved, before getting deported to Mexico in 2006.
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Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum (D) announced Sunday that he would withdraw from public life and seek treatment for alcohol abuse after being discovered intoxicated alongside a man suspected of overdosing on crystal meth in a Miami hotel room.
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"In an incident report obtained by the New Times, small baggies of "suspected crystal meth" were found in the same hotel room where Gillum was reportedly vomiting in the bathroom and "unable to communicate due to his inebriated state.
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At that time, gangs moved into the drug trade as large quantities of crystal meth became available from neighboring Iran, where numerous labs had sprung up, said Angela Me, the head of research for the United Nations drug agency.
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Another former client, Dana Reardon, said the rehab owner supplied her with crystal meth and heroin, made her watch him have sex with two other women, and "forced his fingers" into her vagina "despite her protests," according to the suit.
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"On a chemical level, these three drugs (GHB, mephodrone, crystal meth) have this sexually arousing property that cocaine and ecstasy didn't have," explained Dr Adam Bourne, a lecturer and researcher in chemsex at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Authorities did not give a motive for the attack in Uruapan, a city that has long suffered from high violence as gangs vie to control production and transport of drugs such as crystal meth, and increasingly the lucrative avocado trade.
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But for the most part, the chemicals used to make the world's meth originate in China, where a booming pharmaceutical industry manufactures all the raw ingredients to produce "ice," the common name for glassy shards of high-purity crystal meth.
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Watch the interview below: Read These Stories Next:Sean Penn's Son Hopper Talks Crystal Meth Addiction Wendy Williams Calls Sean Penn "Desperate" For Dating A 24-Year-Old Woman Twitter's Having A Field Day Over Sean Penn's Rumored May-December Romance
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The gang based in western Mexico is blamed for sending large quantities of crystal meth and heroin to the United States, and has for the past few years battled the Sinaloa Cartel of captured kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman for supremacy.
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The gang's power grab has also fueled violence in the port of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico, the main gateway for crystal meth exports to Europe and North Africa, and Tijuana, a major border crossing into the lucrative U.S. market.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Both murderers used their knowledge of chemsex—male sex parties, often organized on dating apps, which are fueled by mephedrone, G, and crystal meth—as a pretext and a smokescreen for their gruesome killings.
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He also told Steve Austin he "got real bad" on crystal meth when he first moved out to L.A. Waltman was also in a prior relationship with Chyna -- who died from drugs and alcohol after a battle with substance abuse.
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Related: Nigeria Has Dismantled a Crystal Meth Super Lab Built With Mexican Expertise There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but it resembled others by Boko Haram in its campaign to carve out a fundamentalist Islamic state in the region.
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Of course, the life of a high school chemistry teacher turned crystal meth kingpin is the attention-grabber, but one of the side plots was the main character's inoperable lung cancer and how it affected his physical and mental health throughout the series.
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Related: Nigeria Has Dismantled a Crystal Meth Super Lab Built With Mexican Expertise VICE News obtained documents from federal legal proceedings in New York and Minnesota that confirm Le Roux was taken into US custody and now faces an array of drug charges.
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Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen's English language debut, based on the best-selling memoirs by real-life father-son duo David and Nic Sheff, is an heartbreaking depiction of Nic's spiral into crystal-meth addiction, as his dad repeatedly tries to save him.
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Yeah, it's a family drama; sure, it's kind of like a moralist Scarface with odd-couple vibes; but really, Vince Gilligan's now-legendary story of a terminally ill chemistry teacher turned crystal meth kingpin is basically a Sergio Leone movie in 62 episodes.
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For most of the movie, which is largely set and shot in the poor Louisiana town of West Monroe, we continue to follow Mark Kelley, the initially naked man, as he lives his life, much of which is devoted to smoking crystal meth.
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The case broke open late last year when Mr. Music's partners in the drug ring were caught trying to sell about 11 pounds of crystal meth, which had a street value of about $500,000, the United States attorney's office said in the statement.
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Estimating sales of the drug were worth about 25-30 percent of a $60 billion U.S. illegal narcotics trade, Vigil said the CJNG's power base and absorption of local expertise meant it had the potential to become the new "superpower" in crystal meth.
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Watch VICE News' Crystal Meth and Cartels in the Philippines: The Shabu Trap: Reuters reports that, in the weeks since Duterte's election victory, there has been a jump in the number of suspected drug dealers shot dead by police and anonymous vigilantes.
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When he asks the station manager, Howard, who looks like a 70s suburban dad on his way to a key party, if he can play a recorded set, Howard scolds him that his show must be live and instead gives him crystal meth.
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North Korea: For Lunar New Year, some reports suggest that people in the country exchanged an unusual gift: crystal meth, a highly addictive drug that the country started manufacturing for export in the 1990s and has since become well-established in local markets.
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While she currently serves as the senior strategist for the Transgender Law Center and is on the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, she told ABCthat she found herself "trans, unemployed, and [HIV] positive, and hooked on crystal meth," when she first moved to the city.
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Amo, the first production from the Philippines to stream globally as a Netflix Original, follows the story of a high school student named Joseph who sells crystal meth and ends up becoming ensnared by the criminal underworld, set against the backdrop of Duterte's crackdown.
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Related: Nigeria Has Dismantled a Crystal Meth Super Lab Built With Mexican Expertise When Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari came to power a year ago, the former military leader vowed to rid the West African country of corruption that costs the economy billions of dollars annually.
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Addiction rates are higher among queer people for numerous probable reasons, including increased likelihood of mental health issues and abandonment, but one that's often singled out is chemsex—the practice of using certain drugs (usually GHB, mephedrone or crystal meth) to enhance sexual pleasure.
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For each of his roles — a murderous outlaw in "3:10 to Yuma," an injured soldier in "The Messenger," a crystal meth addict in "Alpha Dog" and beyond — he has taken an immersive approach to character that transforms his body, his mind, his very self.
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His article takes general aim at screens, but specifically stokes fears about video games and the internet ("I have found it easier to treat heroin and crystal meth addicts than lost-in-the-matrix video gamers or Facebook-dependent social media addicts," he writes).
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While methamphetamine use has declined over all since the late 1990s, a period in which the drug-related death rate was at its worst, the increasing use of stronger and more addictive crystal meth, or ice, has driven the stark increase in methamphetamine-related deaths.
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Fast forward 803 years, and a new supervillain, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, sits in a federal court in Brooklyn, accused of trafficking enough heroin, cocaine, marijuana and crystal meth to Americans to have made $14 billion over two and a half decades.
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Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a New Mexico high-school chemistry teacher turned crystal-meth kingpin, used a remote-controlled machine-gun hidden in his car boot to dispatch a gang of rival dealers who had kidnapped and tortured his one-time associate, Jesse Pinkman.
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"The drugs problem escalated with the increased production of psychotropic stimulant tablets, ice (a nickname for crystal meth), and precursor chemicals have been trafficked illegally from the borders of neighboring countries," Myanmar President U Win Myint said in a speech June 8003, according to Burmese state media.
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Related: US Agents Watch as 'Narco Sub' Carrying $194 Million Worth of Cocaine Sinks After Bust "[With] crystal meth, the leader appears to be China, but they also produce significant amounts in the Philippines and in Indonesia, and also to some extent in Myanmar," Douglas said.
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Beautiful Boy is based on twin memoirs from David Sheff and his son, Nic—Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, respectively—both centered around teenage Nic's crystal meth addiction and his father's struggle to help get him clean.
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Many critics question the drug war's focus on killing petty users and dealers from poor communities, rather than nabbing the kingpins who supply them with crystal meth, a highly addictive stimulant known locally as 'shabu' that officials blame for high crime rates and other social ills.
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Each street had dealers selling different products: We started on the heroin block, wandered through the prescription pill block, and proceeded down Market Street, where he said an entire menu of illicit substances — from cocaine to crystal meth — is available, if you know who to ask.
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David finds a new dealer, steals $150 from his dad, and then his house is raided by the cops for $150 of crystal meth (which he narrowly succeeds in flushing down the toilet with the help of his brooding alcoholic and formerly drug-addicted buddy, Dylan McKay).
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Over the last five years, seizures of heroin and cocaine on the southern border have fluctuated; seizures of crystal meth have risen, perhaps because of more demand; while seizures of marijuana have plummeted, probably an effect of the production of legal cannabis in the United States.
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This changes a few minutes drive beyond the city's limits as the landscape transforms from flowing hills into a rugged and steep mountain range where locals have cultivated marijuana for as long as anybody can remember, and 'kitchens' pump out crystal meth for more contemporary US tastes.
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I've worked with hundreds of heroin addicts and crystal meth addicts, and what I can say is that it's easier to treat a heroin addict than a true screen addict, precisely because they're so ubiquitous in our society that people inevitably have to interact with them on some level.
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It's funny that you mention the medicated kids film because I did that after the crystal meth one and it was an eye-opener to the way in which we overemphasize the problem of illegal drugs and tend to be more blasé with the problems of legal drugs.
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A reminder of the band's bungles and gaffs both private and public—snorting a bunch of crystal meth thinking it was blow before a critical show in LA being one of them; being denied entry to Holland after causing utter drunken chaos on the ferry ride over being another.
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A multinational task force is on the heels of the "Asian El Chapo," a Chinese-born Canadian man named Tse Chi Lop, who is suspected of creating an extensive drug network that makes up to $17 billion a year from selling crystal meth alone, according to a Reuters investigation.
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True, in 1999 it emerged that the Christian Democrats had accepted millions in illegal funds and hidden the money in secret accounts; more recently, a member of the Bundestag was found to be a crystal-meth abuser, and another had downloaded pictures of naked minors on his laptop.
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He was also arrested in 2007 in California on cocaine possession charges, The actor and DJ was then arrested in a federal drug sting in the summer of 20133 and hit with a methamphetamine-dealing charge after he was found in possession of crystal meth at the Hotel Gansevoort in Manhattan.
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Between June 2011 and October 2015, Port lured his victims using online dating sites, such as Grindr, to invite them to his Barking, east London home where he injected them with drugs or spiked their beverages with fatal amounts of "poppers," Viagra, sleeping pills, crystal meth and/or GHB, the police say.
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The critically-acclaimed crime drama starred Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who turned to crystal meth-making to financially support his family after being diagnosed with s He forged a partnership with a former student named Jesse Pinkman (played by Aaron Paul), a drug dealer and user.
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The cult movie immortalized Alig's rise from suburban outcast to the city's most powerful party promoter—and his inevitable fall in 1996, after Alig and his roommate, Robert "Freez" Riggs, killed their friend and drug dealer, 25-year-old Andre "Angel" Melendez, while high on a cocktail of ketamine, heroin, Rohypnol, and crystal meth.
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"The evidence is strong that he was a drug dealer and involved in crystal meth, so he would get a lot of money in cash and treat people to elaborate dinners," said the writer Maureen Orth, whose Vanity Fair article about Mr. Cunanan grew into the book "Vulgar Favors," the basis of the FX series.
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She says she will not change to blend into her upper-middle-class Briargate neighborhood, more famously known for Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family Christian ministry and the New Life Church founded by the evangelical pastor Ted Haggard, who was ousted in 2006 after admitting he paid for sex with a male prostitute and bought crystal meth.
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Journalist, radio host, and activist Jasmyne Cannick spoke with more of Buck's surviving victims, unpacked the circumstances around Dean's death after Buck accused the dead man of trying to choke him with a noose, and published excerpts from Moore's diary, where he chronicled the way Buck introduced him to crystal meth and documented his fear for his life before he died.
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Over the next 28 minutes, we meet a few of The Guy's most eccentric customers: a gay man in a toxic relationship that once pretended to be addicted to crystal meth in order to escape his best friend; and a duo of macho men working on their method acting skills by making The Guy as uncomfortable as possible — a stark contrast to The Guy's sales style, which is to be as nonthreatening and helpful as humanly possible.
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Thought to have originated from an erroneous flyer distributed by a Seventh Day Adventist church community in New Jersey, the myth was circulated repeatedly by schools, police forces, and hospitals across America and the UK. It bred similarly baseless allegations, such as the Strawberry Quik myth about pink strawberry-scented crystal meth that was being sold to kids as Pop Rock–style candy, leading senators to draft a new law, never enacted, to increase jail sentences for people caught selling drugs designed to look like sweets.
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