'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
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The prosecutor who took the rare step of charging a doctor with murder in the prescription drug overdose deaths of three patients said Friday that the case should serve as a warning to unethical physicians who become pill pushers.
The prosecutor who took the rare step of charging a doctor with murder in the prescription drug overdose deaths of three patients said Friday that the case should serve as a warning to unethical physicians who become pill pushers.
While social programs and law enforcement have battled the problem in recent years, Oxycontin remains at the forefront of an epidemic gripping some states more tightly than others.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday that it does not recognize Ebonics as a formal language, but it still may need translators for agents to understand drug dealers who speak it.
An extensive undercover federal drug investigation ended yesterday with the arrest of 96 persons, including 75 students, on the San Diego State University campus on charges they sold or purchased cocaine, marijuana and Ecstasy.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Thanks to tougher U.S. laws, fewer people are cooking up batches of methamphetamine in dangerous homemade labs, but that doesn't mean the supply has dried up. Eighty percent or more of America's supply of the drug now comes from Mexico, law-enforcement officials say.
Federal agents executed a search warrant at a home in Nogales, Ariz., used to conceal the entrance to a recently constructed tunnel that stretched nearly 100 yards underground to a residence across the border in Mexico.
In the third quarter of 2011, 85 percent of lab samples taken from U.S. meth seizures came from the P2P process — up from 50 percent a little more than a year earlier, DEA spokesman Rusty Payne said.
"We go after the biggest and most egregious cases," Payne said. "We have to hit the problem at every level."
