So are the manufacture of methamphetamines and theft of drugs.
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Marijuana, he said, was a gateway to other drugs like methamphetamines.
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Cocaine and methamphetamines are currently listed one level lower than marijuana.
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The most flourishing local business was the smuggling of methamphetamines into Bangladesh.
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But if the authorities have not done gangs much harm, methamphetamines have.
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Just another example of what drugs, methamphetamines, have done to our communities.
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He stands accused of smuggling 222 kilograms of methamphetamines, according to Reuters.
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Mr. Schellenberg had appealed a 15-year prison sentence for smuggling methamphetamines.
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Corrections officers say that foreign syndicates use the biker groups to distribute methamphetamines.
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"Alcohol, cocaine, and methamphetamines, they're all pretty strongly associated with violence," she said.
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The 63,000 drug-related deaths involved all drugs including cocaine, benzodiazepines, and methamphetamines.
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A spokeswoman for the department later told CNN that Koonce tested positive for methamphetamines.
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Many smoke it in a toxic cocktail of washing powder, sleeping tablets and methamphetamines.
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The coroner says Moore's blood tested positive for cocaine, morphine, codeine, methamphetamines and ecstasy.
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Nicotine is a great anti-anxiety medication, and the first prescription antidepressants were methamphetamines.
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But now we're seeing it mixed with cocaine, methamphetamines and other substances of abuse.
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Eleven Naval service members are being discharged after testing positive for cocaine and methamphetamines.
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He is also addicted to methamphetamines and has zero interest in substance-abuse treatment.
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Overall, 4.2 percent of people tested positive for substances like cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamines.
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Mexico remains a major source and transit country for smuggled fentanyl, methamphetamines and heroin.
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In November, Traficante mailed the woman drugs, including cocaine and methamphetamines, to her college mailbox.
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A New Mexico high school chemistry teacher pleaded guilty earlier this week to producing methamphetamines.
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The majority of drug seizures in Mexico still largely consist of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines.
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He arrested Mr. Strieff, searched him and found a baggie containing methamphetamines and drug paraphernalia.
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In 2014, Jun Feng was indicted on three counts of possession and distribution of methamphetamines.
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That the Wehrmacht fought the blitzkrieg invasions of Poland and France hopped up on methamphetamines.
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The damage it does to teeth is similar to that caused by methamphetamines, he said.
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Those include hardcore addictive substances like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines, as well as prescription opioids.
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He also tested positive for methamphetamines during an August 2017 episode of the reality TV show.
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"They were routinely exposed to secondhand smoke from (the parents') smoking methamphetamines and heroin," Cannon said.
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Local Bangladeshis, meanwhile, complain about rising food prices and the spread of methamphetamines manufactured in Myanmar.
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A few years ago, the same team found a similar genetic link with sensitivity to methamphetamines.
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And, 8.6 percent of LGBQ adolescents had used methamphetamines compared with 2.1 percent of other teens.
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By his 20s, Cameron was carrying a gun and dealing methamphetamines to support his spiraling habit.
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By his 20s, he was carrying a gun and dealing methamphetamines to support his spiraling habit.
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In addition to firearms charges, Mr. Rubino was charged with intent to distribute methamphetamines and marijuana.
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Hopping from city to city, they both used heroin, methamphetamines, prescription opioids, Xanax, cocaine and alcohol.
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Methamphetamines While the opioid epidemic continues to ruin lives across the country, another monster is growing.
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In addition to firearms charges, Mr. Rubino was charged with intent to distribute methamphetamines and marijuana.
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Of these, only methamphetamines are showing notable growth, with some fentanyl appearing in small, if potent, quantities.
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He pleaded guilty there in January to charges of importing cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines into the country.
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She reportedly tested positive for marijuana and methamphetamines across three drug tests administered between April and June.
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Correction: The amount the U.S. spent in 2016 on cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines has been corrected.
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Her blood contained benzodiazepine, amphetamine and methamphetamines, according to a toxicology report provided by the corrections facility.
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The other note asked if ephedrine — an ingredient in methamphetamines — was the same as the drug itself.
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The same goes for methamphetamines, rare in most of Europe but common in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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A toxicology report revealed several drugs in Toney's system after her arrest in 2015, including methamphetamines and opioids.
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"While I had too much to drink, I want to be clear that I have never used methamphetamines."
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The DEA says it is focused on drugs responsible for killing thousands of Americans like fentanyl and methamphetamines.
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Monday's death sentence for Canadian Robert Schellenberg for smuggling 222 kg of methamphetamines became the latest strain on ties.
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I know nurses who hold infants that can't stop crying because they were born addicted to heroin and methamphetamines.
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They were far more likely than non-transgender students to use cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and prescription opioids as well.
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But he has also criticized China for not doing enough to stem the flow of methamphetamines into the Philippines.
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They drank and smoked pot in high school and used methamphetamines, painkillers after operations and injuries, and ultimately heroin.
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The study also found that other drugs that are still illegal, like cocaine and methamphetamines, are going up in price.
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Monday's death sentence for Canadian Robert Schellenberg for smuggling 222 kg of methamphetamines has become the latest strain on ties.
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That's why Cauchon has complained about late public health warnings of fentanyl turning up in cocaine and methamphetamines, for example.
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And a higher proportion of people in the Philippines use methamphetamines or amphetamines than in any other country in Asia.
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There are no documented cases of an alligator getting high on methamphetamines, and the cops in Tennessee didn't cite one.
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But the three younger ones all tested positive for methamphetamines, while the infant also tested positive for heroin and morphine.
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Additionally, methamphetamines remain prevalent and the threat of cocaine — a drug some now also view as non-violent — has rebounded.
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At the fish port, men rely on shabu, or methamphetamines, to stay awake during their 18- to 36-hour shifts.
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"While I had too much to drink, I want to be clear that I have never used methamphetamines," Gillum said.
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He spent 10 years as a sex crimes prosecutor, the last six months of which he was addicted to methamphetamines.
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Employees used cocaine and methamphetamines in the bathrooms and had sex in unfinished parts of the factory, he tells the outlet.
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He said he had once sold missile technology to Iran, shipped guns from Indonesia, and trafficked methamphetamines out of North Korea.
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Gang members account for over 14% of the charges of conspiracy to deal methamphetamines, and of murder, laid in New Zealand.
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NAVY SEALS DISCHARGED OVER METH, COCAINE USE: Eleven Naval service members are being discharged after testing positive for cocaine and methamphetamines.
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That, workers say, has given rise to increased numbers of "speeders," people who take methamphetamines and other stimulants on the job.
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These tools have helped federal investigators track and arrest hundreds of smuggling suspects, and seize tons of marijuana, methamphetamines and cocaine.
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The wall will not stop drugs — most imported illicit substances like heroin and methamphetamines already come in through legal border crossings.
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According to the criminal complaint against Desiigner and the others in the SUV, the arresting officer believed the pills were methamphetamines.
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Drug deaths involving fentanyl more than doubled from 2015 to 2016, accompanied by an upturn in deaths involving cocaine and methamphetamines.
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The police said they confiscated high-powered rifles, bundles of cash and an unspecified amount of methamphetamines at Mr. Parojinog's home.
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The indictment alleges the chapter was heavily involved in the transportation and distribution of methamphetamines and narcotics, according to the statement.
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Authorities found 117 kilograms of methamphetamines and 12.5 kilograms of heroin concealed in the ceiling of the truck, the spokesman said.
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The haul was biggest in Australia since 2014, when police seized around $1.5 billion in ecstasy and methamphetamines imported from Europe.
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Overdose deaths involving cocaine and psychostimulants such as methamphetamines, MDMA, methylphenidate (commonly sold as Ritalin) and caffeine have also been steadily rising.
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But he was also venturing closer to the edge, toting guns and using methamphetamines, and died before he had got that far.
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During a recent drug bust, police officers in the town of Loretto found their suspect trying to flush methamphetamines down the toilet.
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When: April 211, 5.93 Where: Tulsa, Oklahoma What happened: Harris had been one of several targets in an undercover operation involving methamphetamines.
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The officers then tested an open bag of what Fincher says was blue cotton candy and said it tested positive for methamphetamines.
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But the Methblr community also promotes self-destructive sex involving loads of methamphetamines, making their subculture seem similar to pro-ana blogs.
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Several high-powered firearms and an unspecified amount of methamphetamines were recovered, Timoteo Pacleb, chief of police of Northern Mindanao, told reporters.
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This issue is personal to me, because my hometown in rural Oregon has been devastated by methamphetamines and, more recently, by opioids.
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The products these workers handled, however, were not heroin or methamphetamines but vast piles of discarded computers, electrical wires and circuit boards.
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Afghanistan's drug trade has for decades mostly meant opium and heroin; thanks to a native bush, now methamphetamines are on the rise.
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These ranged from trafficking opiates and methamphetamines to selling knockoff Viagra and even smuggling parts of endangered animals in secure diplomatic pouches.
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Swamped by refugees, poor Bangladeshi villagers are faced with mounting hardships and worries, including the trafficking of illegal drugs, particularly methamphetamines, from Myanmar.
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Myanmar is one of the world's largest producers of illicit drugs, such as opium, heroin and methamphetamines, which are often smuggled into China.
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However, the use of illegal drugs — such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines, and glue sniffing — dropped from 22.6% in 2007 to 14% in 2017.
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Zhang said there was insufficient evidence to prove Schellenberg was part of a drug syndicate, or that he was involved in smuggling methamphetamines.
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For years the biggest such business was making stimulants such as amphetamines and methamphetamines, which are also produced in neighbouring countries (see article).
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The national death rate from psychostimulants, including methamphetamines, has quadrupled since 1999, according to figures released Wednesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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And while opium poppy growth has long been a financial foundation for the Taliban, methamphetamines have quietly appeared across Afghanistan in increasing quantities.
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According to a recent report from the RAND corporation, in 2016 alone U.S. citizens spent $150 billion on cannabis, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines.
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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that Southeast Asia's trade in methamphetamines and heroin was worth $31 billion in 2013.
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Similarly, Nazi ideology was also an antidrug ideology, yet the state aggressively pushed methamphetamines on its soldiers, and Hitler himself was a junkie dictator.
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The NSDUH collected data on lifetime and past year use - and misuse - of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines.
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Law enforcement knows Mexicans transit most American-used heroin through the country into the U.S. It also has taken over the manufacture of methamphetamines.
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Zhang said there was insufficient evidence to prove Schellenberg was part of a drug syndicate, or that he was involved in the smuggling of methamphetamines.
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In Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, Nic's first of two memoirs, Nic provides a stream-of-consciousness rendering of two years in his early twenties.
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Robredo, a former human rights lawyer, has long been a critic of Duterte's flagship anti-drugs campaign, the main focus of which has been methamphetamines.
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On the local level, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office charged Buck with battery, maintaining a drug house, and administering methamphetamines earlier this week.
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On the second day of deliberations, in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, the jury made two additional requests concerning Mr. Guzmán's role in trafficking methamphetamines.
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In these regions, the economists suggested, the loss of industrial and other blue-collar jobs might have predisposed residents to using drugs, particularly methamphetamines and opioids.
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Most of those people are using heroin and prescription opioids, but the use of methamphetamines is on the rise, said Rachael Kagan, a health department spokesperson.
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In June of 20033, on my way to an assignment in Phoenix, a man who was under the influence of methamphetamines crashed his car into mine.
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The arrests followed a 15-month investigation into the alleged Lenox Street Cardinals gang, which prosecutors contend traffic cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and guns through Boston neighborhoods.
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Six of the children at the center were exposed to opioids while in the womb and two were exposed to methamphetamines, according to umbilical cord testing.
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His last surviving son, Roger T. Winemiller, 268, spent years using prescription pain pills, heroin and methamphetamines, and was jailed for a year on drug charges.
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Sagpang, the National Police station commander, told me that a drug-screening team gave Jimenez a test: no trace of methamphetamines or cannabis in his system.
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"[The suspects] injected this little girl with methamphetamines to make her calm down so they could do what they wanted to, to this little girl," Tixier said.
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Felix Dorfin, 35, was detained last September on the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok with more than 2 kg (4.4 lb) of ecstasy, crystal methamphetamines and marijuana.
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The 24-year-old from northeast Thailand started using methamphetamines two years ago to stay awake during her night job as a go-go dancer in Bangkok.
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In the same six-year time frame, cocaine was consistently the second or third most commonly used drug, and the rate of overdose deaths involving methamphetamines tripled.
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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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At least not for one retired Orlando, Florida man, who was actually arrested and charged with possession of methamphetamines over a few discarded flakes of doughnut frosting.
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" However, the Journal also warns, "The death rate remains swollen by powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl, and… the rise of methamphetamines and related deaths remains a worrisome trend.
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He says he experimented with psychedelics recreationally when he was in his teens and 20s, but after getting hooked on methamphetamines, he quit drugs altogether and got sober.
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" The precious commodity that drives Michoacán's economy and feeds an American obsession is not marijuana or methamphetamines but avocados, which local residents have taken to calling "green gold.
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There were missteps too, like when she gave Dr. Barbie a case of pink pills without knowing that at that time pink pills were known to be methamphetamines.
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Monday's sentence for Robert Schellenberg for smuggling 222 kg (489 lbs) of methamphetamines prompted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to accuse China of "arbitrarily" applying the death penalty.
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However, Kelly told NBC last week that marijuana "is not a factor in the drug war," and instead placed higher importance on methamphetamines and heroin, as well as cocaine.
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But according to The Los Angeles Times, his resignation came less than a month after he was in a hotel room where a woman overdosed and police found methamphetamines.
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For Ms. Hansen it was the combination of a fractured family, a mother who got hooked on methamphetamines and natural disasters: Twice Ms. Hansen had her home burn in wildfires.
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The film was adapted from two memoirs, David Sheff's Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, told from his perspective.
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Two years later, when Mr. Schellenberg was 29, he pleaded guilty to possessing about $4,500 worth of cocaine and heroin for trafficking purposes, as well as possessing cannabis and methamphetamines.
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Most of Collins' cases regarded nonviolent and drug offenses, including a gamut of traffic violations, driving under the influence, theft, obstructing an officer and possession of marijuana, methamphetamines and cocaine.
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At the same time, Nic would sit down to write a memoir from his perspective, called Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines (Nic also wrote for the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why).
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But the court saw Mr. Schellenberg as a skilled participant in the smuggling scheme, which involved trying to ship nearly 500 pounds of methamphetamines to Australia in pellets stuffed inside tires.
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The American Addiction Centers has released a study of what it costs over five years to a lifetime if you habitually abuse substances from nicotine and alcohol to cocaine, opioids and methamphetamines.
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Gabriel has a tougher job ahead: he has been in a clinic in Tijuana, just south of Mexico's border with the United States, after spending 14 of his 30 years on methamphetamines.
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Among those rising numbers of women contracting syphilis and the men who were their partners, self-reported use of methamphetamines, heroin or other intravenous drugs continues to grow, according to the CDC.
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Police said they seized 6 kg of heroin, 8 kg of methamphetamines, 500 grams of cocaine, along with a "significant quantity" of cash and a Porsche Macan SUV and Mini Cooper car.
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LGBQ youth were more than three times more likely to try heroin or methamphetamines at least once, and more than twice as likely to try ecstasy or cocaine, the study also found.
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If the act passes, the import, sale, manufacture, cultivation or possession of drugs, even in quantities as low as 21990 grams for methamphetamines or marijuana oil, will all be punishable by death.
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Former Wisconsin resident Tamara Loertscher sued state officials in 2014 after a hospital in Eau Claire, Wisconsin reported her for testing positive for after methamphetamines and marijuana while she was three months pregnant.
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In the decade before the opioid crisis, Morrison County had a similar problem with methamphetamines and had created a public task force of health officials, cops, schools, and doctors to deal with it.
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Since the 1990s, the Beltran Leyva Organization, together with the Sinaloa Cartel, directed a drug transportation network that shipped tons of cocaine and methamphetamines into the United States, U.S. law enforcement officials said.
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In that same study, Dr. Volkow discovered that people addicted to cocaine, heroin, alcohol and methamphetamines experience a significant reduction in their D2 receptor levels that persists long after drug use has stopped.
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Around 2.1 percent of Australians used methamphetamines or amphetamine drugs in the 2014, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, among the highest rates of illicit drug usage in the world.
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YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar court on Wednesday jailed an Australian publisher for 13 years on drugs charges, a year after police uncovered a stash of methamphetamines and opium at his home, his lawyer said.
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That followed a raid on Friday in a quiet neighborhood in the same city, when six people were arrested and 560 kg (1,200 lb) of suspected methamphetamines was found, worth an estimated $67 million.
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Since winning election two years ago, President Rodrigo Duterte has emerged as a human rights pariah for allowing extrajudicial killings as part of a crackdown on his country's epidemic of methamphetamines and other drugs.
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Authorities said he strangled and force-fed drugs to the cat, and announced Tuesday that they'd upgraded his animal cruelty counts to a felony after tests found the cat had methamphetamines in its system.
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Most of the cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines smuggled into the United States come through legal ports of entry rather than areas that would be stopped by a wall, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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The trauma of those events led Van Ness to using drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamines in his early 20s, and that in the past he had sex for money to support his addiction.
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They found 14 pounds of cocaine and methamphetamines in his car, but he will now be able to suppress charges related to the search because it doesn't hold up to the constitutional burden for consent.
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On March 1503 and 23, days before DHS announced the shift, customs officers at Nogales's Mariposa Crossing seized nearly 187 pounds of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and fentanyl, worth an estimated $3.1 million, from three vehicles.
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The Narcotics Control Act defines methamphetamines, also known as "yaba", and other drugs, such as "shisha", as narcotics for the first time, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam told reporters after the meeting chaired by Hasina.
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"It is very clear, based on official data, despite the number of Filipinos killed and the budget spent, the volume of shabu supply curbed didn't exceed 1%," Robredo told a news conference, referring to methamphetamines.
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"We are certainly seeing fentanyl in cocaine, in methamphetamines, in pills, and a lot of other things," said forensic scientist Michael Rieders of NMS Laboratories in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, which tests seized drugs for toxic ingredients.
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Additionally, she said, the state strengthened laws to prosecute those who sell any mixture of drugs -- such as heroin and carfentanyl (an elephant tranquilizer), heroin and fentanyl, or heroin and methamphetamines -- that leads to a death.
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Believing that the agent was a crime boss who had experience building massive bombs using cell phones as remote-control triggers, Stein had arranged the meeting to discuss payment in the form of cash and methamphetamines.
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In Nebraska, where officials cite methamphetamines as the primary drug menace, the state Division of Children and Family Services has launched a "mom and me" program that allows children to join their mothers in treatment facilities.
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These areas of the brain — those that produce and respond to the neurotransmitter dopamine — are involved in just about any pleasurable activity: having sex, enjoying a nice conversation, eating good food, reading a book, using methamphetamines.
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The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) conducted the operations, including one on Monday in San Juan City in the capital Manila where drums of chemicals used to produce methamphetamines, or "shabu" as it is known, were seized.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina approved the anti-narcotics campaign in early May to tackle the spread of methamphetamines but the killings have raised fears among rights groups of a bloody Philippine-style campaign to wipe out drugs.
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The Police Department is working in conjunction with the F.B.I.'s Safe Streets Program, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Task Force and the Southern Colorado Drug Task force in removing heroin, methamphetamines, guns and criminals from our streets.
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Duterte swept to power in May on promises to wipe out crime and corruption within six months, pledging to wage a war on drug dealers and crush widespread addiction to methamphetamines in the country of 100 million.
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Drugs such as heroin and cocaine were always rare there; the chief hard drug remains homemade speed known locally as "pervitin", after the brand name of the methamphetamines distributed to Nazi soldiers in the second world war.
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Once featured in the Forbes list of billionaires, Guzman led a cartel that has smuggled billions of dollars worth of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamines into the United States and fought vicious turf wars with other Mexican gangs.
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But none of his adventures have been so strangely familiar as " Prussian Blue ," whose plot takes in high crime, sexual scandal, financial fraud, methamphetamines, and murder in Hitler's Alpine dystopia during the week before the Führer's fiftieth birthday.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Philippine authorities last week seized more than 600 kg of methamphetamines in the largest such bust since China launched a crackdown on drug-smuggling in cooperation with the Southeast Asian nation, Chinese customs said on Monday.
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B.J. Walker, director of the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services, said her state saw big increases in children needing foster care during the crack cocaine wave in the 1990s and with methamphetamines beginning in the 2000s.
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TEKNAF, Bangladesh — The Bangladesh government says yaba, a pill that combines methamphetamines with caffeine, is "the drug of choice" for the country's youth — justifying a brutal crackdown that began in early May, with almost 50,000 arrested and more than 200 killed.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities have seized about 6 billion pesos ($120 million) worth of methamphetamines in a series of anti-narcotics operations this month that have yielded the biggest haul in the country's history, the justice minister said on Tuesday.
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It took in millions of dollars shipping fentanyl-laced heroin, methamphetamines, and hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Xanax tablets across the US—until the New York district attorney's office shut it down, and arrested the three men who allegedly ran it.
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During the hearing, a judge asked Apple to explain why it had ignored U.S. prosecutors' search warrants to unlock the iPhone 5s of Jun Feng, who pled guilty to conspiracy attempt to distribute methamphetamines and was charged alongside six others.
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He added that his priority was to tackle drug trafficking and addiction - an ambitious plan in a country where a record number of people use methamphetamines, known in Thai as "ya ba" or "crazy medicine", according to a 2015 U.N. report.
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Gay/bisexual teens are eight times more likely than their heterosexual counterparts to use heroin, six times more likely to use methamphetamines, three times more likely to use cocaine and two times more likely to use prescription drugs without permission.
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The C.D.C. also found that many people who overdose are simultaneously using multiple drugs like heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamines and benzodiazepine, an anti-anxiety medicine, and that the crisis has spread across the country, from rural and suburban areas to cities.
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County officials and medical workers checked on Mr. Perry periodically during the night, and deputies observed that he was thrashing in a way that suggested he had recently taken methamphetamines, according to jail incident reports released by the sheriff's office.
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TWEAK: Growing Up on Methamphetamines BEAUTIFUL BOY: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction The upcoming film "Beautiful Boy" is a twofer, based on the books "Beautiful Boy" (2008), by David Sheff, and "Tweak" (2007), by his son Nic Sheff.
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Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub said 30-year-old David Surman Jr. had been arrested on charges of weapons of mass destruction, reckless endangerment, possession of methamphetamines and other counts after search warrants were executed at his home and his business.
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This allowed both manufacturers to make a fortune selling heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamines to U.S. soldiers and citizens, all while authorities ramped up their surveillance of Chinese, African American, and Latinx communities, who were perceived to be spreading vice among the population.
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Robert Durst, the subject of the true crime documentary series The Jinx on HBO, told Los Angeles prosecutors in an interview last year that he was high on methamphetamines during portions of his interviews for the show, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A clumsy driver led police to a A$200 million ($140 million) drug bust in Australia after he crashed a van laden with 270 kg (600 lb) of methamphetamines into a patrol car parked outside a police station in suburban Sydney.
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But the Mexican authorities charge that he actually sold the chemical to Mexican drug cartels that used it to make methamphetamines, largely for consumption in the U.S. They claimed the mountain of money found in his home was the result of unlaundered profits.
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I grew up in south-east Kentucky, just over the Cumberland Gap, and it is refreshing to read a piece about Appalachia that is not about opiate addiction, methamphetamines, middle-age mortality, or the war on coal and the decline of unions.
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A Chinese court on Monday handed Canadian Robert Schellenberg the death penalty for smuggling 222 kg of methamphetamines, aggravating already sour relations between Beijing and Ottawa following the arrest of a Chinese executive in Canada and China's subsequent detention of two Canadians.
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While he was candid about his use of methamphetamines during his relationship with Exotic, Finlay told TMZ that the cause of his missing teeth was a result of genetics and not drug use, of which he has been clean for six years.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs has only managed to curb the supply of methamphetamines by less than 1% of annual consumption, proof that it has been a bloody failure, his main political rival, the vice president, said on Monday.
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Tristen Thibault, 22, who said he had struggled with addiction to heroin and methamphetamines and had been clean for three months, said that he didn't use marijuana now because he was on probation for drug possession and lived in a sober house.
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When the memoir was published, Nic had relapsed again, returned to rehab, and was again in recovery; his own memoir about his experience throughout two years of addiction, Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, was published at the same time as his father's.
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Other cases have popped up, but they've largely been anecdotal; a rare case in Ohio this month of a young boy who tested positive for methamphetamines after trick-or-treating reportedly coincided with trick-or-treating, though it's not clear how he was exposed.
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But according to a paper by two criminologists at American universities, Sheldon Zhang and Ko-Lin Chen, officers find it much trickier to pick out users of methamphetamines and other powerful stimulants, which do not at first create the same all-consuming dependency as heroin.
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The deputies followed proper procedures and field tested the substance on two separate occasions which field tested positive for methamphetamines, notified the District Attorney's Office who accepted charges for possession of controlled substance of 200 grams and Mr. LeBeau posted bond and was released.
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Like a handful of other states that have voted to legalize recreational marijuana, California's industry faces headwinds including a banking system that refuses to work with producers and a federal government that still considers marijuana an illegal drug on par with heroine and methamphetamines.
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The film is based on a pair of memoirs; Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, by David Sheff, about Sheff's struggle to help his meth-addicted son, Nic, and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, by Nic Sheff, telling the story from his perspective.
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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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Throwing pennies at an opioid-specific agenda that's more focused on an acute crisis response is not an effective way to address a national addiction epidemic that affects people who have substance use disorders that aren't opioid-specific—disorders involving alcohol, cocaine, methamphetamines, or benzodiazepines like Xanax.
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Chinese debt has become "the methamphetamines of infrastructure finance: highly addictive, readily available, and with long-term negative effects that far outweigh any temporary high," according to a recent article by Grant T. Harris, who was President Barack Obama's White House director for Africa from 2011 to 2015.
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Steve DainesSteven (Steve) David DainesThe 23 Republicans who opposed Trump-backed budget deal 5 takeaways from combative Democratic debate GOP senator introduces resolution to formally condemn socialism MORE (R-Mont.) stood up to talk about the flood of methamphetamines from Mexico that have spread as far as his home state.
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With any history of prescription opioid misuse, teens were 63 times more likely to have used heroin, almost 19 times more likely to have tried methamphetamines, over 16 times more likely to have tried cocaine, and more than 10 times as likely to have tried marijuana, researchers report in Pediatrics.
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Last week, Mayo public relations circulated Martin County court records from late last month and earlier this month showing that Amber had tested positive for methamphetamines, and that a judge had stripped her of custody of Alyssa's five younger half-siblings, who are minors, after it was found she had abused them.
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The report, which advocates the decriminalization of small quantities of illegal drugs intended for personal use, found that while whites are more likely than blacks to use illicit drugs — including marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and prescription drugs for nonmedical purposes — black adults were more than two-and-a-half times as likely to be arrested.
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Office 39 — which also goes by Central Committee Bureau 20153, Third Floor, Division 39, Room 39, among other code names that refer to its offices on the third floor of a government building in Pyongyang — is believed to have blended a legitimate import/export business with counterfeiting and drug trafficking, including the production and sale of methamphetamines.
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The unwanted attention is rippling beyond the campus to Pasadena, a suburb with long and deep ties to U.S.C. When a police officer responded to a call at a Pasadena hotel where a woman had apparently overdosed in front of Dr. Puliafito, the officer found methamphetamines in the room, but he did not file a report for months.
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Unbeknownst to the general public, Kennedy faced these external challenges while also battling the internal challenge of back pain that was all too often debilitating, and he relied on a near-daily therapy regimen, at times using various combinations of exercise, massage, procaine injections, support orthotics, crutches, narcotics, and illicit intravenous injections of methamphetamines in an attempt to manage this pain.
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Halfway through fiscal year 0003, border patrol agents have intercepted more than 2000,22017 pounds of methamphetamines and nearly 21 pounds of heroin along the Mexican border -- amounts that are comparable to those recorded in 2016 and 2015 but pale in comparison to the haul of more than 500,000 pounds of marijuana and over 200,000 pounds of cocaine seized across all law enforcement departments.
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Kelly highlighted Mexico as the primary source of foreign methamphetamines and heroin entering the US. But a wall may do little to stop the flow of these substances, since Mexican drug cartels tend to hide their product in legal cargo and drive it through checkpoints at the border, Felbab-Brown said -- points of entry that will continue to exist no matter how high a wall might be.
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They found that the top 10 drugs in the six-year period remained the same and belonged to three classes of drugs: Opioids such as fentanyl, heroin, hydrocodone, methadone, morphine and oxycodoneBenzodiazepines such as alprazolam and diazepam Stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamines The study found that illicit drugs like fentanyl and heroin were the leading causes of unintentional overdoses, and prescription drugs were more likely to be involved in suicidal overdoses.
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In his second day of testimony, Mr. Cifuentes led jurors not only through details of the kingpin's life on the lam, but also of his own role in almost every aspect of Mr. Guzmán's business: how on behalf of the defendant, he struck cocaine deals in Colombia and Panama, sold methamphetamines with the Mafia in Canada, repatriated profits through an insurance firm in Atlanta and bought grenades (and rocket-propelled launchers) from a corrupt Ecuadorean military officer.
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