Unlike opium, meth is a synthetic drug made by mixing chemicals.
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The cocaine was also apparently laced with a powerful synthetic drug.
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Five more people overdosed on the synthetic drug over the weekend.
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China has recently banned the synthetic drug carfentanil, and we are encouraged by that.
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The contraband being trafficked includes mobile phones, tobacco, and psychoactive substances like the synthetic drug Spice.
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Those who sell speed, for instance, are more likely also to stock MDMA, another synthetic drug.
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The potent synthetic drug fueled the increase in overdose deaths last year, according to the CDC.
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Synthetic drug users are "taking it for a different reason, to get a different high," Monte says.
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New York City's health department said overdoses involving the synthetic drug K2, also known as Spice, have skyrocketed.
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That's led synthetic drug prices, especially yaba, to hit historic lows in Southeast Asia, according to the UNODC.
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Most of these deaths are caused by opioids like prescription painkillers, heroin and the potent synthetic drug fentanyl.
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Crystal methamphetamine is a form of methamphetamine, a highly addictive synthetic drug also known as speed, shabu and yaba.
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The visit comes after a productive 18 months for Chinese-American relations on the subject of combating synthetic drug sales.
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He said while police cannot say for certain that the synthetic drug caused the illnesses, that is what investigators suspected.
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The unparalleled growth in synthetic drug production and trafficking has coincided with intensified conflict between the army and different militias.
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Opioids include prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl, a highly addictive synthetic drug 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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Ben Westhoff is a journalist whose new book, Fentanyl Inc, is a portrait of the massive Chinese synthetic-drug industry.
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Colon, who has been pitching with Triple-A Columbus this season, tested positive for a synthetic drug similar to testosterone.
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Diethylstilbestrol is a synthetic drug that mimics and, it was later shown, interferes with the effects of natural hormones, including estrogen.
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Chase told his family and his fianc e, Patti Galloway, he was having a bad reaction to the synthetic drug, Spice.
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Chase Sherman eventually told them he had taken the synthetic drug Spice before their trip and was having a bad reaction.
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One recent morning, a self-described drug addict who prefers methamphetamine and the synthetic drug "spice" camped out near the library.
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The Massachusetts Democrats' legislation would screen for the synthetic drug using automated, nonintrusive technology, according to a statement from Markey's office.
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That's the year the synthetic drug fentanyl exploded in the US drug market, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
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It also says that two synthetic drug labs were dismantled, but when the agency described the group's operation it listed three labs.
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Some pills that were analyzed contained fentanyl, lidocaine and U-47700 — a synthetic drug that is eight times more powerful than morphine.
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You need that stuff to produce nearly every synthetic drug in the book, and it can even be used to make bombs.
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He was convicted in 2015 and sentenced to 2023 years in prison for conspiring to distribute a synthetic drug known as spice.
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Over the last decade, the synthetic drug known as fentanyl has been mixed into heroin — or in some places has replaced it.
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In 2017 alone, U.S. government data shows that prescription pain treatments, heroin and the more potent synthetic drug fentanyl led to 47,600 deaths.
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In America the Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 183 banned "cannabimimetic agents", as defined by the effects they have on the brain.
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Police have speculated that Harrouff may have been under the influence of the synthetic drug flakka at the time of the alleged attack.
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They also ventured into the synthetic drug trade, as drugs like methamphetamine and fentanyl brought them even larger profits than cocaine or heroin.
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" Studies on psilocybin, DMT, and mescaline were approved, as were studies of the synthetic drug MDMA, more commonly known as "Molly" or "Ecstasy.
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The synthetic drug market in China continues to boom, partly because there is little oversight and regulation protecting the country's enormous chemical industry.
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Banning these drugs quickly will help federal agents stem the tide of synthetic drug use in New York and across the country, he said.
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Ecstasy, also known as MDMA, is a synthetic drug that acts as a stimulant and hallucinogen, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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An extremely powerful synthetic drug, fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin.
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An initial round-table discussion identified the challenges posed by the ever-evolving synthetic drug market, which is now affecting more than 100 countries.
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Officials had initially speculated that Austin may have been under the influence of the synthetic drug flakka, but toxicology reports surrounding the drug are pending.
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So some who could no longer legally obtain painkillers have turned to illegally obtaining the cheaper, more potent opioids: heroin and fentanyl, a powerful synthetic drug.
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So they thought they would try it, but what they were sold instead, without them realizing it, was the synthetic drug that turned deadly, she said.
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The second opioid found was a known synthetic drug, Miles said, but its name is being withheld until the full analysis of both drugs is complete.
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A powerful synthetic drug that is being disguised and illegally sold as a prescription painkiller has caused six deaths and 22 overdoses in Sacramento County, Calif.
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If you like a good night out on the latest synthetic drug du jour, you could soon start looking at public toilets in a different way.
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According to the report, countries in Africa are also facing their own opioid emergency with the synthetic drug, Tramadol, which has flooded the market in recent years.
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Authorities initially believed Harrouff may have been under the influence of the synthetic drug flakka when he allegedly attacked the couple and tried to eat Stevens' face.
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Authorities initially believed Harrouff may have been under the influence of the synthetic drug flakka at the time, but the results of toxicology tests debunked those suspicions.
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In subsequent decades, many large pharmaceutical companies turned away from nature as a source of antibiotics, diverting resources to the promising new field of synthetic drug development.
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The results confirmed what experts have long feared -- that fentanyl, the synthetic drug produced in vast quantities in mainland China, was being mixed with heroin in Thailand.
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This includes the powerful synthetic drug fentanyl, which is up to 50 times more potent than heroin and is contributing to nearly half of deaths involving opioids.
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"Death waves — understandable and preventable — come and go rapidly in the synthetic drug era," said Dennis Cauchon of Harm Reduction Ohio, which monitors overdose trends in that state.
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And although there were faint traces of marijuana and a synthetic drug in his system, Shuman's autopsy turned up no medical evidence to suggest he suffered excited delirium.
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The synthetic drug that left scores of people in a "zombielike" state in Brooklyn over the summer was 85 times as potent as marijuana, according to lab tests.
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Today's installment follows up on a dispatch called Synthetic Drug Revolution, which explored how foreign manufacturers create recreational products that often slip through the cracks of US drug law.
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Authorities initially believed Harrouff may have been under the influence of the synthetic drug flakka when he allegedly attacked the couple and spent minutes trying to eat Stevens' face.
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Investigators said synthetic drug traffickers are getting more creative in how they ship drugs through the postal system, exploiting the sheer volume of international mail and sending smaller packages.
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A potent synthetic drug more powerful than fentanyl, carfentanil is known for being a large animal tranquilizer and for its alleged use as a chemical weapon by the Russian military.
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"There are new drugs being manufactured every day," said Kiara Hagan, a toxicologist who cowrote a paper about detecting a type of synthetic drug in drug-facilitated sexual assault cases.
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I do some research on novel and synthetic drug abuse, and this summer we surveyed some people at music festivals in Colorado and tested the ones who said they'd used ketamine.
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While there were increases in heroin and synthetic drug-related deaths, there was a drop in overdose deaths involving natural and semisynthetic opioid analgesics, including prescription drugs like oxycodone and hydrocodone.
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Likewise, the authors noted a highly-lethal proliferation of synthetic drug sales, most notably fentanyl produced in labs in China, along with what appeared to be surging dark-web drug transactions.
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China on Monday called on the U.S. to reduce its demand for opioids, saying the Trump administration should work to combat the use of the synthetic drug fentanyl, among other drugs.
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The deaths alarmed public health officials, pointing to the lethality of fentanyl, a synthetic drug roughly 30 times more potent than heroin, and carfentanil, an astonishing 5,000 times more potent than heroin.
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However, toxicology results obtained by PEOPLE list no detection of the synthetic drug — a psychoactive stimulant that has been linked to bizarre behavior and drug overdoses — or bath salts in Harrouff's system.
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Fentanyl, a synthetic drug often trafficked on the black market from Mexico and Canada, is often combined with heroin or another drug, and has been repeatedly tied to the nationwide opioid crisis.
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A half-dozen disheveled men and women walked swiftly to where the young man was rolling a cigarette of a synthetic drug known as K22 to wait for a chance to share.
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People are dying from counterfeit pills made with a dangerous synthetic drug called fentanyl, a drug that's 210 to 50 times stronger than heroin, up to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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The rise of the more potent synthetic drug has put a generation of older users, like William Glen Miller Sr., above, who had managed their addiction, at far greater risk of overdose.
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But like other products containing fentanyl, a synthetic drug that is a hundred times more powerful than morphine or oxycodone, the lollipop formulation has also proved vulnerable to abuse by opiate addicts.
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Canadian border agents have seized a massive amount of carfentanil — a synthetic drug typically used to sedate elephants and other large wild animals, not to be confused with the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
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A 59-year-old man in Kitchener, Ontario, is facing up to a $1 million fine and 20 years in prison for attempting to export bootleg fentanyl and pentylone, another synthetic drug.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Coordinated police raids in 93 countries have netted more than 55 tons of drugs including a cocaine, heroin and millions of synthetic drug pills, the Interpol police organization said on Wednesday.
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A 19-year-old Florida State University fraternity brother allegedly stabbed a couple to death then tried to eat part of one victim's face – possibly after taking the synthetic drug Flakka, PEOPLE confirms.
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Police initially speculated that Harrouff may have been under the influence of the synthetic drug flakka during his alleged attack, but the results from a subsequent toxicology report have not yet been announced.
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Snyder initially speculated that Harrouff may have been under the influence of the synthetic drug flakka during his alleged attack, but the results from a subsequent toxicology report have not yet been announced.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's drug control agency disputed on Friday U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that most of the synthetic drug fentanyl at the heart of the U.S. opioid crisis was produced in China.
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This was a question that came up in my coverage of flakka, a synthetic drug that made headlines after law enforcement blamed it for people running in the streets naked in delusional paranoia.
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The White House announced that Trump commuted the sentence of Ronen Nahmani, who was convicted in 28503 and sentenced to 22019 years in prison for conspiring to distribute a synthetic drug known as spice.
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This is not condo Brooklyn, artisanal Brooklyn, or fun Brooklyn: earlier this summer it was this same block where 33 people were rushed to the hospital, suspected of overdosing on the synthetic drug K2.
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Separately, border guards in the central province of Quang Tri arrested a man from Laos on Tuesday who was attempting to bring 65,800 synthetic drug tablets into Vietnam, the Ministry of Public Security said.
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William Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health, was among those showing that these genes conferred a resistance to amikacin, a semi-synthetic drug that did not exist before the 1970s.
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He said investigators have not determined a motive for the attack, but noted that the synthetic drug flakka – a psychoactive stimulant that has been linked to bizarre behavior and drug overdoses – could be a factor.
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"It is highly likely that ketamine produced in Chinese labs is now reaching the UK market," Martin Raithelhuber, the illicit synthetic drug expert at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), told me.
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In Cincinnati, some medical and law enforcement officials said they believed the overdoses were largely caused by a synthetic drug called carfentanil, an animal tranquilizer used on livestock and elephants with no practical uses for humans.
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Then there are measures like the "Synthetic Drug Awareness Act," the first bill that came to the House floor, which calls for a study of the effects of synthetic drugs like "spice" and "bath salts" on adolescents.
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It has been hard to watch and wait while the case against Tse has developed, knowing that he is believed to be the driving force behind the recent Asia Pacific synthetic drug surge that has ruined countless lives.
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Martin County Sheriff William Snyder initially told reporters Harrouff could "absolutely" have been on the synthetic drug flakka when he allegedly killed John Stevens and Michelle Mishcon in the garage of their Tequesta, Florida, home on Aug. 15.
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In the VICE on HBO episode Synthetic Drug Revolution, correspondent Hamilton Morris traveled to New Zealand and China to get a first-hand look at the people and facilities behind this new frontier of dangerous, quasi-legal highs.
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In Ireland head shops closed down but the use of these drugs did not: according to a Eurobarometer survey, some 22% of those aged between 15 and 24 had taken a new synthetic drug in 2014, compared with 16% in 2011.
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Under pressure from the United States, Beijing has banned the manufacture and sale of 23 variations of the synthetic drug, including four types this year, which a spokesman for the American Drug Enforcement Administration called a "potential game-changer" in February.
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They uncovered a scheme to bribe the guards in exchange for smuggling marijuana, the narcotic Suboxone, the synthetic drug K2 and cellphones into two jails, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York said in a statement.
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"Those boys don't go to school and moreover they get involved in drugs like yaba," said Al Morijam, 35, a mother of two, referring to the highly addictive synthetic drug produced in Myanmar that is more popular than heroin in parts of Asia.
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"There are lessons to be learned from the regulation and taxation of marijuana [that we can apply to the synthetic drug market], but I don't know if we are in a position yet apply those lessons in the United States," he said.
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In 2012, the US government passed the Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act, which classified a number of "designer drugs," including synthetic cannabinoids and synthetic hallucinogens, under Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act -- meaning they have no accepted medical use and high potential for abuse.
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And two men, Felix Melendez and John Parker, were arraigned in a state court Thursday on charges relating to handling and possessing the synthetic drug, according to the Hartford Courant, although it wasn't clear whether the drugs they had resulted in the overdoses in New Haven.
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A campaign of raids and arrests, as well as new city legislation that banned more forms of the synthetic drug and threatened businesses and owners who sold the substance with closings, fines and jail time, contributed to what had appeared to be a dip in K2 use.
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But officials in the Cincinnati area and in southern Indiana say that a synthetic drug, carfentanil — 10,000 times as potent as morphine — could be tied to at least 189 overdoses across both states in the past week, resulting in at least four deaths in the states.
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What was once a few familiar faces has turned into a tribe of strangers, walking around, staggering and looking lost, in the throes, it is believed, of the ill effects of K2, a synthetic drug that officials in New York have been working hard to eradicate.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that will temporarily extend the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) class-wide ban on all variants of the powerful synthetic drug fentanyl, which has helped fuel the opioid crisis in the United States.
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As this study suggests, serotonin receptors play an important role in mediating the role of LSD, and the synthetic drug is probably activating the receptor, triggering many of the mind-altering effects associated with an acid trip (serotonin itself is responsible for feelings of well-being and happiness).
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China's drug control agency on Monday said the United States should do more to cut its demand for opioids to tackle the use of synthetic drug fentanyl, but it vowed to step up cooperation after Chinese production of the substance had been blamed for fueling the U.S. opioid crisis.
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Authorities allege that the bunker slash data center, located in the town of Traben-Trarbach, was used to host the Cannabis Road drug marketplace, "drugs, hacking tools and financial-theft wares" emporium Wall Street Market, and myriad other criminal activities like synthetic drug ring Orange Chemicals, the AP wrote.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's drug control agency on Monday said the United States should do more to cut its demand for opioids to tackle the use of synthetic drug fentanyl, but it vowed to step up cooperation after Chinese production of the substance had been blamed for fuelling the U.S. opioid crisis.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP senators balk at lengthy impeachment trial Warren goes local in race to build 2020 movement 2020 Democrats make play for veterans' votes MORE and U.S. officials have frequently blamed the opioid crisis on the importation of the synthetic drug from China and what they call Beijing's inadequate response.
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New York City police raided five bodegas in Brooklyn on Wednesday, a day after a wave of suspected overdoses from the synthetic drug K22 sent at least 214 people to the hospital and raised fears that the use of a substance that officials had indicated was on the wane was instead on the rise.
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In February, U.S. Customs and Border Protection authorities seized three shipments of synthetic cannabinoid compounds from a Chinese shipper that was trying to send about two pounds of bath salts, another synthetic drug that can cause delusions or death, to an address in Pittsburgh, and another three pounds of ADB-FUBINACA to an address in Swissvale, Pennsylvania.
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Related: Los Monos: The Drug Gang of Rosario, Argentina's Most Violent City The three fugitives were convicted to life imprisonment for the murder of Sebastián Forza, Damián Ferrón and Leopoldo Bina— three pharmaceutical businessmen— that occurred in August 2008 A month before the murders, Argentine police raided a synthetic drug laboratory and detained 10 people, 9 of whom were Mexicans.
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"The president committed to taking new actions including agreements to control the export and movement of fentanyl precursors, sharing intelligence on drug trafficking, and exchanging trafficking information," he added, referring to Xi. China's drug control agency last week disputed Trump's claim that most of the synthetic drug fentanyl at the heart of the U.S. opioid crisis was produced in China.
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Lil Peep (born Gustav Ahr) was on the forefront of a genre-bending movement and seemed on the verge of mainstream fame when he died at 21 in November 2017, making him just one in a handful of notable musicians who have overdosed on opioids in recent years; the synthetic drug fentanyl was also cited in the deaths of Prince, Tom Petty and Mac Miller.
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