Drug News You Can Use
Opium – U.S. bombs poppy crop to cut Taliban drug ties
updated 6:04 a.m. EDT, Tue July 21, 2009
“The U.S. military bombed about 300 tons of poppy seeds in a dusty field in southern Afghanistan Tuesday in a dramatic show of force designed to break up the Taliban’s connection to heroin.”
View Article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/21/afghanistan.poppy.strike/index.html
U.S. offers up to $50 million for Mexican cartel members
updated 8:23 p.m. EDT, Mon July 20, 2009
“U.S. authorities have ratcheted up pressure on one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels, releasing new details about the so-called Gulf Cartel’s operations and offering up to a $50 million reward for the arrest of its leaders.”
View Article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/20/us.mexico.cartel.reward/index.html
Vicodin – Using dentists as dope dealers
By Thelma Gutierrez and Wayne Drash
CNN
“Morrison didn’t buy his drugs on a street corner or get them from a dope dealer. He got them mostly from dentists he had never met. He says he’d scroll through the phone book calling dentist after dentist until one would prescribe him pain medication.
“I kind of found out on my own that a dentist will prescribe you painkillers over the phone, instead of a doctor who you would most likely have to go in and see,” he says.”
View Article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/21/dental.doping/index.html
Hydrocodone – Nurse accused of drug theft at hospital
by The Associated PressSunday, July 19, 2009
“A nurse is accused of stealing drugs from Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital.
Assistant District Attorney Jack Schmidt told Judge Keith Levy that Peppenger entered a treatment program that year for an addiction to hydrocodone, a narcotic pain reliever.”
View Article: http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10752002&nav=menu510_2
Boy, 1, fed drugs before overdose
Matthew Clayfield July 21, 2009
Article from: The Australian
“A ONE-YEAR-OLD boy who died of a drug overdose had been administered both morphine and methadone for at least the last three months of his life.Police initially suspected the boy had died from sudden infant death syndrome, but an autopsy showed he had died from a cocktail of drugs administered shortly before his death. Tests of the child’s hair showed someone had been administering the drugs to the toddler for the last three months of his life and possibly longer.”
View Article: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25811727-2702,00.html
